Font-de-Gaume is a cave near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne department of south-west France. The cave contains prehistoric polychrome cave...
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de Préhistoire [fr] (National Museum of Prehistory) and the area contains several important archaeological sites, including the Font-de-Gaume, Grotte...
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The Grotte de Cussac (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt də kysak]) is a cave located in the Dordogne river valley in Le Buisson-de-Cadouin, Dordogne, Aquitaine...
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Rouffignac Cave (redirect from Grotte de Rouffignac)
per day. Cave of Altamira Font-de-Gaume Lascaux Les Combarelles Leroi-Gourhan, A. (1988). Rouffignac. In: Dictionnaire de la Préhistoire, sous la dir...
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The Grotte de Gabillou also known as Grotte de las Agnelas is a cave in France in which prehistoric ornaments stemming from the paleolithic period exist...
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Chauvet Cave (redirect from Grotte Chauvet)
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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Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands or Cave of Hands) is a cave and complex of rock art sites in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km...
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The Grotte du Renne (French for "Reindeer's cave") is one of the many caves at Arcy-sur-Cure in France, an archaeological site of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic...
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Cosquer Cave (redirect from Grotte Cosquer)
(1992). "La grotte Cosquer datée". Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. 89 (8): 230–234. doi:10.3406/bspf.1992.9527. "La grotte Cosquer à Marseille...
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Cave of Altamira (redirect from Cueva de Altamira)
4 November 2001 Cartailhac, Émile (1902). "Les Cavernes ornées de dessins, la grotte d'Altamira, Espagne, "Mea culpa" d'un sceptique"". L'Anthropologie...
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Taforalt (redirect from Archaeological site in Africa: Taforalt (Grotte Des Pigeons))
Taforalt, or Grotte des Pigeons, is a cave in the province of Berkane, Aït Iznasen region, Morocco, possibly the oldest cemetery in North Africa. It contained...
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6.85 Grotte du Bichon is a karstic cave in the Swiss Jura, overlooking the river Doubs at an elevation of 846 m, some 5 km north of La Chaux-de-Fonds...
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decorations were discovered, but only with the double discoveries at Font-de-Gaume and Les Combarelles in 1901 was the debate finally settled. The importance...
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exceptional prehistoric sites, including the Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter, the cave of Font-de-Gaume, and the Combarelles caves in Les Eyzies. It also...
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replica is in construction). Grotte des Demoiselles, near Nîmes Grotte des Fées cave Font-de-Gaume cave, near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Gabillou Cave [fr]...
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Caves of Nerja (redirect from Cuevas de Nerja)
The Caves of Nerja (Spanish: Cueva de Nerja) are a series of caverns close to the town of Nerja in the Province of Málaga, Spain. Stretching for almost...
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The Cave of Niaux (French: Grotte de Niaux) is located in the Niaux commune, Ariège département in southwestern France as part of a wider geological system...
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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 the...
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Kleine Feldhofer Grotte was a karstic limestone cave and a paleoanthropologic site in the Neander Valley in western Germany. In August 1856, the Neanderthal...
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Cro-Magnon rock shelter (redirect from Abri de Cro-Magnon)
Cro-Magnon (/kroʊˈmænjən/ , US: /-ˈmæɡnən/; French: Abri de Cro-Magnon French pronunciation: [kʁomaɲɔ̃]) is an Aurignacian (Upper Paleolithic) site, located...
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name was derived. Font de Gaume, in the Dordogne Valley in France — Discovered in 1901 and dating from 17,000 B.C., Font de Gaume cave contains more...
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Spy Cave (redirect from Grotte de Spy)
Spy Cave (French: Grotte de Spy) is located in Wallonia near Spy in the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Namur Province, Belgium above the left bank...
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The Coves de l'Aranya (in original Catalan language, known in English as the Spider Caves and in Spanish Cuevas de la Araña) are a group of caves in the...
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Places) Breuil H., 1930: Un dessin de la grotte des Trois frères (Montesquieu-Avantès) Ariège, Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et...
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Charles R. Knight's 1920 reconstruction of Magdalenian painters at Font-de-Gaume, France Hugo Darnaut's 1885 Ideal picture from the Stone Age Viktor...
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abstract figures in open-air artwork completed 22,000 to 10,000 years ago. Font-de-Gaume in south-west France contains over 200 polychrome paintings and engravings...
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Cueva de los Casares is a cave in Riba de Saelices (Province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain). Discovered in 1933, it contains a number of paleolithic...
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de la Dent de Crolles Font-de-Gaume Gouffre Berger Réseau du Clot d'Aspres Gournier Cave Gouy Cave Grotte des Demoiselles Grottes du Cerdon Grottes Pétrifiantes...
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Cueva de la Pileta ("Cave of the Pool") is a cave in the province of Málaga, Spain, that was discovered in 1905 and contains cave paintings. The cave was...
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The Grotte du Lazaret (English: Cave of Le Lazaret) is an archaeological cave site of prehistoric human occupation study, situated in the eastern suburbs...
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