Word: clambering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dawes & friends wandered last fortnight into the Dordogne section of southwestern France, to clamber about the rocks of the Vezere valley, penetrated dark caves and troglodytic dwellings. Traveling from there into northern Spain, the party went to Santander, to visit Altamira Cavern and study the famed Paleolithic frescoes painted with mineral oxides, the bison engravings cut into rock. Then Mr. Dawes visited the National Archeological Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Madrid. Headquarters of the expedition in Spain was in the southern province of Huelva...