

Explanatory
panel in the museum. Click on the images to visualise
them.
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Archaeological
and artistic monuments discovered in a range of places from
the Iberian Pensinsula to China demonstrate the importance of
the bovidae in human civilisations dating back to the Neolithic
Age. They were represented 14.000 years ago in the Pileta Cave,
8 kms from Ronda, and subsequently in the Lascaux Cave in the
French Dordogne region. Along the eastern coast of Spain they
were worshipped before great stone shelters. Bullfighting rituals
were held at the foot of the fortification walls of ancient
Sumerian cities during the third millennium BC.