Rock Art of Vale do Coa
Written by Philippa Burne, UK, October 2011
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Comment from Philippa Burne
In northern Portugal, well inland from Porto, is a small rugged valley that was destined to be flooded into becoming a dam but is now a protected World Heritage national park. Why did its fortunes change so dramatically? Because someone realised that some scratchings in the rocks were actually Palaeolithic art.
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Photo courtesy of Duca696 via Wikimedia Commons.
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