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Cueva Hora

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Site type:
Cave
Site function:
Habitation site
Lat/Long:
37.35, -3.29
Country:
Spain
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Cueva Horá is an archaeological site that is located in the municipality of Darro (Granada) Spain. It opens onto the southeastern slope of the last foothills of Sierra Harana, one of the southernmost within the subbético domain, at 1,217 meters above sea level and is 2.5 kilometers from the town of Darro, accessed by the main road number 324.

The Cueva Horá site was documented by the distinguished Hispanist Hugo Obermaier, who visited it in 1916. Based on the samples collected then, he considered that the cultural sequence of the cave belonged to the Mousterian. Subsequently, the site has been the object of archaeological interventions by J. C. Spanhi and M. Pellicer and, finally, between 1979 and 1983, it was also excavated by a team that included both the Archeology Service of the Granada Provincial Council and the Patronato de la Cueva del Agua.

As a result of these investigative phases, the chronological range of the cultural sequence found therein was extended to the Lower and Upper Paleolithic, in addition to confirming the Mousterian presence and a Neolithic and Chalcolithic epiuse. In short, the site was frequented by groups of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers during the time interval between 100,000 and 30,000 years ago, being occupied later, in recent prehistory, but with less intensity.