El Mirón

Municipality in Castile and León, Spain

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40°31′55″N 5°24′19″W / 40.53194°N 5.40528°W / 40.53194; -5.40528Country

SpainAutonomous community

Castile and LeónProvince

Ávila MunicipalityEl MirónArea

• Total31.08 km² (12.00 sq mi)Elevation

1,265 m (4,150 ft)Population

(2018)^[1]

• Total124 • Density4.0/km² (10/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)WebsiteOfficial website

El Mirón is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 198 inhabitants. The number increased to 207 in 2012.^[2]

The name came into attention upon the discovery an Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) skeleton in 2015 from the El Mirón Cave. The skeleton was that of a woman and is coated with ochre (a red pigment), hence she is nicknamed The Red Lady of El Mirón.^[3] The woman is about 35 to 40 years of age, and was buried around 18,700 years ago.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
^ "Population of El Mirón, Spain". mongabay. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
^ Straus, Lawrence G.; González Morales, Manuel R.; Carretero, Jose Miguel; Marín-Arroyo, Ana Belen (2015). ""The Red Lady of El Mirón". Lower Magdalenian life and death in Oldest Dryas Cantabrian Spain: an overview". Journal of Archaeological Science. 60 (1): 134–137. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.034.
^ González Morales, Manuel R.; Straus, Lawrence G. (2015). "Magdalenian-age graphic activity associated with the El Mirón Cave human burial". Journal of Archaeological Science. 60 (1): 125–133. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.025.
^ Weiss, Daniel (11 August 2015). "The Red Lady of El Mirón". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 27 July 2016.