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    The Pont d'Arc (French pont = bridge) is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardèche département in the south of France, 5 km from the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc...
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    Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (French pronunciation: [valɔ̃ pɔ̃ daʁk]; Occitan: Valon) is a village in southern France in the Ardèche Department. The village is a...
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    The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France...
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  • The Caverne du Pont-d'Arc, Chauvet 2, is a replica of the Chauvet Cave in the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, in the department of Ardèche and in the Rhône-Alpes...
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  • It consists of footage from inside the cave, as well as of the nearby Pont d'Arc natural bridge, alongside interviews with various scientists and historians...
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    natural 60-metre (200 ft) stone arch spanning the river known as the Pont d'Arc (arch bridge). The source of the river lies at 1,467 metres (4,813 ft)...
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    de Calais Mining Basin". UNESCO. "Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, Ardèche". UNESCO. World Heritage Committee. "Sites...
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    Upper Paleolithic, as attested by the famous cave paintings at Chauvet Pont d'Arc. The Ardèche river plateau has extensive standing stones (mainly dolmens...
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    department Ardèche, forming a thirty-kilometre long canyon running from Vallon-Pont-d'Arc to Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche. The lower part of the gorge forms the boundary...
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    The canton of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc is an administrative division of the Ardèche department, southern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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    Vietnam Poole's Cavern, England Caverne du Pont-d'Arc show cave replica of Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France Postojna Cave, Postojna, Slovenia (the...
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    It is a left tributary of the Ardèche into which it flows at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, 1.8 km (1.1 mi) southeast of the village. This list is ordered from source...
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    intimidating height of 15 metres (49 ft). 2017: The King 8b+ (5.14a), Pont d'Arc in France. First ascent by Chris Sharma; while not one of Sharma's hardest...
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    the exception of a supposed depiction of a volcanic eruption at Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, France, dating to 36,000 years ago. Cave art is found in dark cave recesses...
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    Cave paintings of the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) in Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, France...
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    Bocherens, H.; et al. (2006). "Bears and humans in Chauvet Cave (Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardeche, France): Insights from stable isotopes and radiocarbon dating...
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    1839 – 12 April 1901), French Protestant theologian, was born at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche and died in Strasbourg. He was educated at the Protestant theological...
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    chronological model for the decorated Upper Paleolithic cave of Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, Ardèche, France" PNAS 2016 113 (17) 4670–4675; published ahead of print...
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    with horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs is made at Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardéche gorge, France. Discovered in December 1994. Evidence for continued...
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    the Pont d'Arc, with the road then winding north through Vallon-Pont-d'Arc and then uphill east to the finish line at the Caverne du Pont-d'Arc. The...
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    Geneste, Jean-Michel (28 December 2014). "Heated walls of the cave Chauvet-Pont d'Arc (Ardèche, France): characterization and chronology". PALEO. Revue d'archéologie...
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  • 5.414°E / 45.849; 5.414 (Isle de la Serre) – Slalom Ardèche Vallon-Pont-d'Arc Ardèche River Flow diversion Linear – – 44°23′56″N 4°23′06″E / 44.399°N...
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    Cave, Bashkortostan, Russia (~36,000 y.o.) Chauvet Cave, near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France (~35,000 y.o.) Cave of La Pasiega, Cuevas de El Castillo, Cantabria...
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  • The 2009 Paris–Nice, the 67th running of the race, started on 8 March in Amilly, and concluded on 15 March in Nice. It was won by Luis León Sánchez. Favorites...
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    Rhaeadr, Wales Ponoarele, Romania (Podul lui Dumnezeu, or God's Bridge) Pont d'Arc, France Pravčická brána, Czech Republic Puentedey, Spain (Puentedei, or...
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  • Stevns Klint Natural 1416  France Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, Ardèche Cultural 1426  Germany Carolingian Westwork...
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    These include Spain (Erralla), France (Montespan, Le Morin, Le Closeau, Pont d'Ambon) and Germany (Bonn-Oberkassel). After this period, the remains of...
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    The Pont Neuf (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ nœf], "New Bridge") is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western...
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    Anna Alix Boulle, 3 February 1878 – 16 April 1961) was born at Vallon (-Pont-d’Arc), Ardèche, France. She was the originator of the Remembrance Poppy Day...
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  • discovered by Jean-Marie Chauvet and other speleologists near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the Ardèche department of southern France, containing some of the earliest...
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