Cueva de los Casares

Cueva de los Casares is a cave in Riba de Saelices (Province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain). Discovered in 1933, it contains a number of Paleolithic cave paintings, and is most notable for a series of paintings depicting what some have argued is the earliest representation of human understanding of the reproductive process, featuring images of copulation (perhaps mediated by a mysterious shaman figure), pregnancy, childbirth, and family life. Mammoths and other animals feature frequently in the illustrations. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1935.^[1]

Cueva de los Casares
Native name Cueva de los Casares (Spanish)
Location	Riba de Saelices, Spain
Coordinates	40.9575°N 2.290928°W / 40.9575; -2.290928
Spanish Cultural Heritage
Official name	Cueva de los Casares
Type	Non-movable
Criteria	Monument
Designated	1935
Reference no.	RI-51-0001089
Location of Cueva de los Casares in Spain

One of the many paleolithic hierogamies of Los Casares, in that representing a sexual act.

There are many representations of animals, anthropomorphs (human-like figures), and ideograms (including penises, vulvas, tools, and more abstract images).

The cave and its paintings are little known to scholars outside Spain.