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It was first excavated by Ricardo, then Count Vega del Sella, later Duke of Estrada. The name was proposed by the German archaeologist working in Spain, Hugo Obermaier , in his 1916 book El Hombre fósil (translated into English in 1924).
An original culture emerged during the Mesolithic, the Asturian, typical of eastern Asturias and western Cantabria. These settlements could be found in the entrance of caves close to the sea or under shelters, generally near the coast, although they were also found in inland Cantabrian mountains. [1] Neolithic.
From Catalina de Lancaster -first princess of Asturias- to Dª Letizia - first princess of Asturias born in Oviedo/Uviéu and the first Asturian queen of Spain- more than six centuries of history have passed, and Asturias remains equally pure, natural, fascinating.
The foundations of Asturian culture and that of Christian Spain in the High Middle Ages were laid during the reigns of Silo and Mauregatus, when the Asturian kings submitted to the authority of the Umayyad emirs of the Caliphate of Córdoba. The most prominent Christian scholar in the Kingdom of Asturias of this period was Beatus of Liébana ...
The Asturian was identified as a distinct culture after excavations by Vega del Sella at the cave of El Penicial in Asturias in Spain in 1914. It was a highly localised culture, specifically in the central part of the Bay of Biscay's southern coast, while the former Azilian had encompassed a greater area of the same coastline.
Culture in Asturias boasts a remarkable UNESCO World Heritage site, particularly linked to its prehistory and medieval era, during which this land was a prominent Kingdom where the Camino de Santiago originated.
Jul 25, 2023 · In fact, Asturias was the first Christain kingdom established in the Iberian Peninsula. Since it spent the years between 700-900 AD as its own isolated kingdom, Asturias is full of examples of pre-Romanesque architecture not found in other parts of Spain.
