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    Lascaux (English: /læˈskoʊ/ la-SKOH, US also /lɑːˈskoʊ/ lah-SKOH; French: Grotte de Lascaux [ɡʁɔt də lasko], "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near...
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    Montignac-Lascaux (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tiɲak lasko]; Limousin: Montinhac or Montinhac de Las Caus; before 2020: Montignac, also called Montignac-sur-Vézère)...
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  • Lascaux (French pronunciation: [lasko]; Occitan: Las Caums) is a commune in the Corrèze department in south-central France. Communes of the Corrèze department...
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    Pleiades in the "Salle des Taureaux", grotte de Lascaux. Does a rock picture in the cave of Lascaux show the open star cluster of the Pleiades at the...
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    emergence of cave painting in the Dordogne and Pyrenees, including at Lascaux, dated to c. 18,000 BC. At the end of the Last Glacial Period (10,000 BC)...
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    Paleolithic cave paintings from Lascaux in France (c. 15,000 BCE)...
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    mammoths, lynx, bactrian camels, and ostriches, earning it the nickname "the Lascaux of Mongolia". The Venus figurines of Mal'ta (21,000 years ago) testify...
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    Pécany Puymartin Saulnier The famous caves of Lascaux have been closed to the public, but a replica of Lascaux II is open to visitors and is a major tourist...
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    Paleolithic cave representations of animals are found in areas such as Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain in Europe, Maros, Sulawesi in Asia, and Gabarnmung...
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  • the original on 2010-07-23. "Lascaux IV International Centre for Cave Art". official website. Retrieved 2019-08-17. "Lascaux IV: The International Centre...
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  • craftsmen. The Atelier des fac-similés du Périgord (AFSP) in Montignac-Lascaux was involved in construction of the sets. The aerodrome's landing strip...
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  • civilisations in Western Europe. Development of microliths in Europe. France: Lascaux Cave, a veritable gallery of rock art, also known as the "Sistine Chapel...
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    historical, as in ancient Egypt, and prehistoric, as in the cave paintings at Lascaux. Major animal paintings include Albrecht Dürer's 1515 The Rhinoceros, and...
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    years to Paleolithic cave representations of animals such as those at Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain. In ancient Egypt, ink drawings on papyrus...
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    different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished, particularly...
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    the sable, an animal. Black was one of the first colors used in art. The Lascaux Cave in France contains drawings of bulls and other animals drawn by paleolithic...
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    Prehistoric cave painting of aurochs (French: Bos primigenius primigenius), Lascaux, France...
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  • earlier—Rappenglück in the marks on a c. 17,000 year-old cave painting at Lascaux and Marshack in the marks on a c. 27,000 year-old bone baton—but their...
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  • Rheingold have framed early forms of human communication, such as the Lascaux cave paintings and early writing, as early forms of media. Another framing...
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    archaeologists Henri Breuil and Denis Peyrony in the early twentieth century, while Lascaux, which has the most exceptional rock art of these, was discovered in 1940...
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    was the staple food for Cro-Magnon people, while the cave paintings at Lascaux in southwestern France include some 90 images of stags. In China, deer...
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    N. dir. (2011), Lascaux et la conservation en milieu souterrain: actes du symposium international (Paris, 26-27 fév. 2009) = Lascaux and Preservation...
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    available, yellow ochre pigment was one of the first colors used in art; the Lascaux cave in France has a painting of a yellow horse 17,000 years old. Ochre...
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    Cave paintings, Lascaux, France, c. 17,000 BCE...
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    as the Early Bronze Age, but the well-known Magdalenian style seen at Lascaux in France (c. 15,000 BC) and Altamira in Spain died out about 10,000 BC...
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    Pech-Merle Cave Paintings. Lascaux Cave, Montignac, Dordogne, France — Discovered in 1940 and dating from 17,000 B.C., Lascaux contains seven decorated...
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    Encyclopædia Britannica Joseph Nechvatal, "Immersive Excess in the Apse of Lascaux", Technonoetic Arts 3, no. 3, 2005. Look up apse in Wiktionary, the free...
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    World Heritage Site in 1979. Among the sites with remarkable caves is Lascaux. The Vézère takes its source in the bog of Longéroux, on the plateau of...
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    Russia. There are cave drawings of primitive predomestication horses at Lascaux, France and in Cave of Altamira, Spain, as well as artifacts believed to...
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    direction north. In recent years, new research has suggested that the Lascaux cave paintings in France may incorporate prehistoric star charts. Michael...
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