Las Motillas (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz)

The Motillas cave is located in the province of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain), within the Alcornocales Natural Park. From the geological point of view, the cave opens in Jurassic limestones corresponding to the Western Subbetic domain, as well as the caves with outstanding archaeological interest of Higueral, Los Márquez and Abrigo del Bombín. In them have been located occupations of the Middle Paleolithic, the upper and evolved Solutrean, and post-Paleolithic times (especially Neolithic and Roman times).

It is a fossil gallery with a development about one kilometer in the West-East direction. Its main access mouth opens in the cliff, in the form of a large recess oriented to the Northwest, 335 meters above sea level and with a wide visual domain over the trough that forms the water stream that crosses the karst system. In an interior area of the gallery, a horizontal and comfortable floor area is opened, in which we can see a complete figure of a horse, of small format and made with violet red pigment, along with other strokes and adjacent spots of the same color (attributable to Solutrean). They also highlight an extensive set of archaeological elements still being documented and studied (directed by M.A. Medina-Alcaide, in close collaboration with the speleological group G.I.E.X.), as well as a set of black graphic remains and engravings with more doubtful chronology.