Dr. Aitor Ruiz-Redondo, Senior Lecturer of Prehistory at the University of Zaragoza and research affiliate at the University of Southampton comments,"When we saw the first painted auroch [extinct wild bull], we immediately acknowledged it was important. Although Spain is the country with largest number of Paleolithic cave art sites, most of them are concentrated in northern Spain. Eastern Iberia is an area where few of these sites have been documented so far.
The large number of motifs and the variety of techniques involved in their creation make the cave the most important Paleolithic cave art site on the eastern Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. In fact, it is probably the Paleolithic cave with the greatest number of motifs discovered in Europe since Atxurra , in 2015.
Dr. Aitor Ruiz-Redondo explains,"Animals and signs were depicted simply by dragging the fingers and palms covered with clay on the walls. The humid environment of thedid the rest: the 'paintings' dried quite slowly, preventing parts of the clay from falling down rapidly, while other parts were covered by calcite layers, which preserved them until today."