DRONE RESULT

A TEAM using a drone has found 7,000-year-old Neolithic paintings in two shallow caves in an inaccessible mountain region.

Three archaeologists from Alicante University climbed as far as they could towards the caves in Castellet-Barranc de Salt and Port de Penaguila before setting the drone on its way.

It recorded videos of walls in 18 shallow shelters set in the mountain face and discovered paintings in two of them.

The El Salt discoveries include female figures and archers, as well as deers and goats - some wounded by arrows. The pictures at the second site are yet to be interpreted.

The Penaguila area has produced a series of findings, including some outstanding discoveries back in the 1980’s.