Praileaitz Cave

The Praileaitz Cave (Basque for Rock of the Monk cave) is located in the municipality of Deba (Guipuzcoa, Basque Country).

Early in August 2006, various paleolithic cave paintings were found during an archaeological excavation - a non-figurative iconographic grouping made up of smaller groups of red dots, either isolated or forming a series. Researchers have surmised that the paintings were done around 18,000 years ago.

The cave also yielded an unusual set of portable art on peebles, with abstract forms that, in one case, suggested to the researchers resembled the Venus figurines found elsewhere in Palolithic contexts. It is dated at the Lower Magdalenian period.