Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola
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Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y Pedrueca or Marcelino de Sautuola was a Spanish jurist and amateur archaeologist who owned the land where the Altamira cave was found.
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María Sanz de Sautuola, the discoverer of the Altamira paintings
Émile Cartailhac
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Émile Cartailhac was a French prehistorian, sometimes regarded as one of the founding fathers of the studies of the cave art.
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…Altamira-paintings more plausible, and mainstream scientists retracted their opposition to the Spaniards. In 1902, the respected French archaeologist Émile Cartailhac, who had been one of the leading critics, emphatically admitted his mistake in the article, "Mea culpa d'un sceptique", published in the journal…
Émile Cartailhac
A bison in Altamira