Basque State Towns StoryI. For the Dawn of TimeIf the ice ages receded and the very first human groups roamed the humid valleys on the Cantabrian Sea, the lands we now connect with Euskal Herria have been already a refuge. Within the caves of Santimamiñe, Ekain, Isturitz, and Aitzbitarte, nameless fingers still left bison, horses, and symbols that