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The Chauvet Cave or Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave is a cave in the Ardèche department of southern France that contains the earliest known cave paintings, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic l...
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The Chauvet Cave was discovered in the Ardèche valley (in southern France) in December 1994 by three cave explorers, after removing the rumble of stones that blocked a passage. The cave is extensive, about 400 meters long, with vast chambers.
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The Chauvet Cave or Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave is located near the Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the Ardèche region in southern France. Jean Clottes first visted the Cave Paintings of Chauvet with Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire. ... Chauvet Cave is exceptional – despite being recently discovered in 1994,
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The Chauvet Cave in France is regarded as on of the most important rock sites in the world. The cave paintings of Chauvet have been dated to between 30,000 to 32,000 years ago. ... Map and plan of the Chauvet Cave indicating the locations of the paintings, click each dot to reveal the painting. Locations where there...
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Questions about Chauvet Cave
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Chauvet Cave in the valley of the Ardèche River in France is filled with paintings, engravings and drawings created some 35 000 years ago, of cave lions, mammoths, rhinos, bison, cave bears and horses. ... Floor plan of the Chauvet Cave, redrawn by Don Hitchcock from, and with additional text adapted also from ;
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The discovery of the Chauvet Cave in December 1994 was a remarkable event. ... Jean Clottes is the leader of the Chauvet Cave research team and an internationally recognized specialist on cave paintings and Palaeolithic art.
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Chauvet Cave is one of the earliest rock art sites in the world, dating to the Aurignacian period in France, about 30,000-32,000 years ago; although its date has been questioned recently. ... More on Chauvet Cave and Paleolithic Art...
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ART HISTORY This lion panel from the Chauvet Cave is 2.5m wide. ... This panel alone is enough to rank Chauvet Cave — named for Jean-Marie Chauvet, the leader of the group that discovered it — among the great prehistoric sanctuaries. These spectacular paintings would fundamentally change our conception of the evolution...
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