Cave of Kapova

Kapova Cave (Kapovaya Cave) is certainly considered one among numerous limestone karst caves positioned at the Belaya River withinside the Shulgan-Tash Preserve, Burzyansky Region, in Bashkortostan - a Russian Republic which lies among the Volga and the Ural Mountains. The cave was first recorded through the explorer and geographer P.I.Rychkov, in 1760. In 1959, the Russian archeologist A.V.Ryumin tested a part of the cave network, in which he located a mile-lengthy collection of cave artwork and drawings proposing greater than 50 pics of woolly mammoths, horses, bison and rhinoceroses, in addition to anthropomorphic figures and numerous geometric markings. This discovery a greater thorough exam of the cave, withinside the 1960s, through specialists from the Institute of Archeology of the USSR, led through O.N.Bader, who not directly carbon-dated the cave portray to the very last length of Paleolithic art, round 12,500 BCE.

Further investigations had been accomplished withinside the Nineteen Eighties through V.E.Shchelinsky, and through scientists from the Russian Geological Institute and the Russian Geographical Society, despite the fact that the deeper elements of the cave haven't begun to be well tested, because of deep holes, flooding and different dangers.

Location: Beloretsk