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It was not until 1902, when several other findings of prehistoric paintings had served to render the hypothesis of the extreme antiquity of the Altamira paintings less offensive, that the scientific society retracted their opposition to the Spaniards. That year, Cartailhac emphatically admitted his mistake in the famous article, "Mea culpa d'un sceptique", published in the journal ''L'Anthropologie''. Sautuola, having died 14 years earlier, did not live to witness his rehabilitation.

Cartailhac went on to write a pair of books about the cave, assisted by [[Henri Breuil|Henri Breuil's]] hand-drawn reproductions of the paintings. Breuil was a both a Catholic priest and a competent draughtsman, whose connection with the cave is discussed in the first chapter of [[G. K. Chesterton|G. K. Chesterton's]] book, [[The Everlasting Man]].

Further excavation work on the cave was done by [[Hermilio Alcalde del Río]] between 1902 and 1904, the German [[Hugo Obermaier]] between 1924 and 1925 and finally by [[Joaquín González Echegaray]] in 1968.