Sites
El Sidron
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- Site type:
- Cave
- Site function:
- Habitation site
- Lat/Long:
- 43.38, -5.32
- Country:
- Spain
- Date range max:
- 49,000 Bp
- Date range min:
- 37,300 Bp
- Classifications:
- Homo neanderthalensis
- Cultures:
- Mousterian
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The Sidrón Cave (Asturian: Cueva del Sidrón) is a non-carboniferous limestone karst cave system located in the Piloña municipality of Asturias, northwestern Spain, where Paleolithic rock art and the fossils of more than a dozen Neanderthals were found. Declared a "Partial Natural Reserve" in 1995, the site also serves as a retreat for five species of bats and is the place of discovery of two species of Coleoptera (beetles).
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