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Gaura Chindiei - a limestone cave at the first Iron Gate of the Danube
The Gaura Chindiei cave is dated to around 12 000 to 10 000 BP.
![Gaura Chindiei painting](clickphotos/gauracave.jpg)
Entrance to the Gaura Chindiei II Cave, near Pescari
Photo: http://cimec.cilea.it/livingpast/nr1/boroneant/mediu/poza17.htm
![Cuina altars](images31/irongatescontourmaparchaeologysm.jpg)
Map of the Iron Gates region, with the position of Gaura Chindiei II marked.
Photo: Don Hitchcock 2014
Sun image
Photo: http://www.cimec.ro/Arheologie/Boroneant-arheologia-pesterilor/index.html
Source: Arheologia peşterilor şi minelordin România ciMeC- 2000 Bucureşti www.cimec.ro
Representation of a bird with open wings, and some enigmatic signs.
Photo: http://www.cimec.ro/Arheologie/Boroneant-arheologia-pesterilor/index.html
Source: Arheologia peşterilor şi minelordin România ciMeC- 2000 Bucureşti www.cimec.ro
Positive imprint of a hand, and some signs interpreted as anthropomorphic.
Photo: http://www.cimec.ro/Arheologie/Boroneant-arheologia-pesterilor/index.html
Source: Arheologia peşterilor şi minelordin România ciMeC- 2000 Bucureşti www.cimec.ro
Vasile Boroneanţ, the foremost Romanian archeologist, with his latest book on caves and mines in Romania.
Photo: http://www.cimec.ro/Arheologie/Boroneant-arheologia-pesterilor/index.html
Source: Arheologia peşterilor şi minelordin România ciMeC- 2000 Bucureşti www.cimec.ro
![Gaura Chindiei painting](clickphotos/chindiaps.gif)
The 'alphabetical encyclopaedia' found in the Gaura Chindiei Cave, Romania.
Photo: http://www.dacia.org/Dacian_Virtual_Museum/Symbols/symbols.html