The paintings, that are 14,000 years old , can be seen mainly on the cave ceiling. They represent Bisons, Deer, Boars, Horses … They are made with natural colours such as crimson red or yellow ochre, outlined in black.The total length of the Cave is about 270m, irregular in shape. It has a vestibule and a gallery but the lateral room which contains the best paintings is at only 30 metres from the entrance and it is 18 metres long ,9 metres wide and 1.1 to 2.65 metres high. In this room we can see paintings of horses and bisons, a hind, a boar in red, ochre and black colours. The paintings belong to the Solutrensis and old Magdaleniensis period . They exhibit a strength and movement of surprising quality The group of 70 shapes carved in the rock and almost 100 painted figures impress us because of the realism and lively aspect of the deer , bisons, horses and boars that are represented there. But what gives more value to the cave paintings of the Altamira Caves is the exceptional character of its polichromy. The Altamira Cave paintings can be regarded as the most advanced achievement of the Paleolithic times. In the other galleries there are other carvings and paintings but lesser in number. They consist of figures of animals , painted in black or carved in the rock and lines and different signs (techtimorphic). The paintor used the most raised parts to make a kind of modelling on the figures and he gave them an embossed pattern or in relief . The tools he used were made of stone, bone or horn. They were found in the vestibule, which was used as a sitting-room. They are mainly from the Superior Solutrensis and Inferior Magdaleniensis layers. In the Medium Magdaleniensis period the Cave collapsed in part and it was in this time when the cave was abandoned.