Heritage sites, Archaeological discoveries, History of Archaeology

Kapova Cave

Location

southern Ural Mountains

Country

Russia

Year of Research

1760

Culture

It is the Upper Paleolithic rock art place which lies in the republic of the Bashkortostan in southern Ural Mountains of Russia.

The cave was the first recorded by P.I.Rychkov in 1760.

A mile long gallery of the cave paintings in the late 1950s has over 50 figures which includes mammoths, rhinoceros, bison and horses, combined human and animal drawings and rapezoids.They were examined by Russian archaeologist A.V.Ryumin in to the cave .