Cosquer Cave ([kɔskɛʁ]) is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France, near Cap Morgiou. The entrance to the cave is located 37 m (121 ft)...
20 KB (2,113 words) - 09:08, 6 June 2025
Calanque (section Cosquer Cave)
calanques were declared a national park due to their uniqueness. The Cosquer Cave is an underwater grotto in the Calanque de Morgiou, 37 m (121 ft) underwater...
13 KB (1,468 words) - 15:31, 5 February 2025
Henri Cosquer discovered the mouth of a submarine cave 37 metres below the surface of the Calanque de Morgiou near Marseille. The entrance led to a cave above...
102 KB (13,821 words) - 04:05, 14 June 2025
The Calanque de Morgiou is also famous for the Cosquer cave, an underwater grotto containing numerous cave drawings dating back as far as 27,000 years BP...
2 KB (131 words) - 20:35, 30 September 2024
Arcy-sur-Cure, France (~28,200 y.o.) Cosquer Cave, with an entrance below sea level near Marseille, France (~27,000 y.o.) Caves of Gargas, France (~27,000 y.o...
70 KB (7,706 words) - 22:00, 26 May 2025
calanques of Sormiou, Morgiou, Port-Miou, Sugiton, En-Vau, as well as the Cosquer Cave. In 1923, the Comité de défense des Calanques was established with the...
3 KB (214 words) - 00:04, 24 March 2025
La Mouthe cave, Dordogne, France, is made. It is now at Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Paintings in Cosquer Cave are made, where...
45 KB (4,661 words) - 04:12, 7 May 2025
end. Their use was widespread in palaeolithic times. Cosquer cave in Southern France contains cave art over 16,000 years old, including drawings of seals...
25 KB (3,121 words) - 16:57, 21 April 2024
Cabrespine cave [fr], near Carcassonne (city) Chauvet Cave, and its replica (for protection) Pont-d'Arc cave Choranche cave Les Combarelles cave Cosquer Cave, only...
2 KB (239 words) - 10:47, 3 June 2025
especially during the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods. Cosquer Cave in southern France has cave art over 16,000 years old, including drawings of seals...
14 KB (1,781 words) - 22:59, 5 May 2025
(the ones typically used in counting from one to five) are found at Cosquer Cave, France. Since the capacity and persistence of the fingers are limited...
25 KB (2,961 words) - 14:42, 6 June 2025
Lascaux (redirect from Lascaux cave)
lah-SKOH; French: Grotte de Lascaux [ɡʁɔt də lasko], "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne...
41 KB (4,644 words) - 15:30, 2 June 2025
Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some...
28 KB (3,222 words) - 14:25, 9 June 2025
Galgenberg, Venus of Petřkovice, Venus of Savignano, Venus of Willendorf Cosquer Cave (France) – hand stencils from 27,000 years ago, and 19,000-year-old animal...
26 KB (2,881 words) - 12:17, 24 April 2025
the exploration and the scientific study of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 and the Chauvet Cave discovered in 1994. In October 2008, Auel was named...
9 KB (755 words) - 22:50, 16 February 2025
Iroungou cave Mbenaltembe cave Faucon cave Enkapune Ya Muto Kitum Cave Leviathan Cave Mau Mau Caves Njoro River Cave Paradise Lost Caves Kome Caves Ain Zayanah...
70 KB (5,529 words) - 19:42, 30 May 2025
Cave National Park is a national park of the United States in south-central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave...
69 KB (7,977 words) - 00:08, 20 June 2025
swept away by erosion. In 1985, a diver named Henri Cosquer discovered the mouth of a submarine cave 37 meters below the surface of the Calanque de Morgiou...
76 KB (10,917 words) - 13:12, 14 March 2025
its environs for almost 30,000 years: palaeolithic cave paintings in the underwater Cosquer Cave near the calanque of Morgiou date back to between 27...
30 KB (3,749 words) - 16:48, 18 March 2025
classified as 'art'. From the Upper Paleolithic through to the Mesolithic, cave paintings and portable art such as figurines and beads predominated, with...
79 KB (9,796 words) - 13:54, 9 June 2025
Federalist revolts. Archaeological excavations, such as those at the Cosquer Cave near Marseille, show that the coast of Provence was inhabited since at...
43 KB (4,477 words) - 15:47, 4 May 2025
The Belum Caves, located in Nandyala district of Andhra Pradesh's Rayalaseema region, is the second largest cave system on the Indian subcontinent, known...
16 KB (1,739 words) - 07:23, 23 December 2024
The Cave of Altamira (/ˌæltəˈmɪərə/ AL-tə-MEER-ə; Spanish: Cueva de Altamira [ˈkweβa ðe altaˈmiɾa]) is a cave complex, located near the historic town...
21 KB (2,361 words) - 07:30, 27 April 2025
barbed poles was widespread in palaeolithic times. Cosquer Cave in Southern France contains cave art over 16,000 years old, including drawings of seals...
56 KB (7,272 words) - 09:23, 18 June 2025
Bhimbetka rock shelters (redirect from Bhimbetka cave paintings)
feature prehistoric cave paintings and the earliest are dated to 10,000 BCE, corresponding to the Indian Mesolithic. These cave paintings show themes...
26 KB (2,775 words) - 22:09, 23 May 2025
perhaps, as far back as 25,000 BC, the Cosquer Cave, the Chauvet Cave dating back to 29,000 BC, and the Trois-Frères cave; and portable art, such as animal...
70 KB (8,647 words) - 18:23, 19 June 2025
cave paintings at the Cosquer Cave. Solutrean (c. 22,000 - 17,000 BP) Magdalenian (c. 17,000 - 10,000 BP) – thought to be responsible for the cave paintings...
58 KB (5,541 words) - 15:22, 20 May 2025
artwork, after that of the Chauvet cave. Cosquer Cave, near Marseille, France — Discovered by the deep-sea diver Henri Cosquer in 1985 and dating from 25,000...
22 KB (2,905 words) - 19:15, 16 March 2025
Cave', or sometimes Mt. HaKfitza Cave, HaKfitza(h) Cave, or Meʿarat Qafzeh. Another Hebrew name is Meʿarat Kedumim or Kedumim Cave. The various caves...
12 KB (1,246 words) - 21:08, 24 May 2025
Blombos Cave is an archaeological site located in Blombos Private Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of Cape Town on the Southern Cape coastline, South...
68 KB (8,692 words) - 16:36, 15 March 2025