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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...
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  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 2010 3D documentary film by Werner Herzog about the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, which contains some of the oldest human-painted...
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    35,400 years at Timpuseng cave in Sulawesi. The earliest known European figurative cave paintings are those of Chauvet Cave in France, dating to earlier...
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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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    other pantherine cats. Carvings and cave paintings of cave lions, which were discovered in the Lascaux and Chauvet Caves in France, were dated to 15,000 to...
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    freezing environment. Rock paintings in the Lascaux and Chauvet Caves indicate that the cave hyena had the characteristic patches and mane of the spotted...
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    serious threat to the cave bear's survival, though the two species may have competed for living space in caves. The Chauvet Cave contains around 300 "bear...
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    Rock art (redirect from Cave inscription)
    produced inside cave systems by the hunter-gatherer peoples who inhabited the continent. The oldest known example is the Chauvet Cave in France, although...
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    American University in Cairo Press. Chauvet, J.-M.; Brunel, D. E.; Hillaire, C. (1996). Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave. The oldest known paintings in the...
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    Cave of Aurignac Bacho Kiro cave Chauvet Cave Hohle Fels Ksar Akil Hayonim Cave Cave of Aurignac Bacho Kiro cave Chauvet Cave Hohle Fels Potok Cave Ksar...
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    shapes. Chauvet Cave (France) – some of the earliest cave paintings known, and considered among the most important prehistoric art sites. Coliboaia cave (Romania)...
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    asteroid named after the cave Art of the Upper Paleolithic Chauvet Cave Caves in Cantabria List of Stone Age art Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain A...
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    Heritage Site, the decorated cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc., and its replica, Chauvet Cave 2. The cave contains some of the earliest...
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    du Pont-d'Arc show cave replica of Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France Postojna Cave, Postojna, Slovenia (the longest show cave in Europe and the birthplace...
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  • the Lascaux cave paintings and early writing, as early forms of media. Another framing of the history of media starts with the Chauvet Cave paintings and...
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  • Chauvet may refer to: Chauvet Cave, a pre-historic site with paleolithic cave art Lac Chauvet, a lake in France C.H. Chauvet, a French aircraft constructor;...
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    Rhino & Four Horses - The Cave Art Paintings of the Chauvet Cave". Bradshaw Foundation. Retrieved 2019-10-28. "Kapova Cave". Don's Maps. Retrieved 24...
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    Famous examples of cave art include the oldest figurative depictions in Europe found in Chauvet cave, Romuald’s Cave and Fumane Cave, while the most famous...
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    pardus tulliana subspecies. An apparent depiction of this leopard in the Chauvet Cave shows a coat pattern similar to that of modern leopards but with a unspotted...
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    Greece for gladiatorial games. Upper Paleolithic cave painting depicting cave lions, found in the Chauvet Cave, France Heracles and the Nemean lion, c. 540...
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    Lascaux (redirect from Lascaux cave)
    access should be permitted in caves containing prehistoric art. Art of the Upper Paleolithic Cave of Altamira Chauvet Cave Cave painting List of archaeological...
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    the Chauvet Cave). Signs such as dots were sometimes drawn. Rare human representations include handprints and half-human/half-animal figures. The Cave of...
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    second oldest presently known after those of the Chauvet cave. Another notable characteristic of these caves is the time-long series of pollen, related to...
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  • significant in the study of human evolution. December 18 – Chauvet Cave discovered by Jean-Marie Chauvet and other speleologists near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the...
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    Paleolithic period, with carvings and paintings from the Lascaux and Chauvet Caves. The species has a largely negative reputation in both Western culture...
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  • long consumed horse meat; the oldest known cave art, the 30,000-year-old paintings in France's Chauvet Cave, depict horses with other wild animals hunted...
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    Sakha Republic, and Eliseevichi 1 on the Russian plain. Paw-prints from Chauvet Cave in France dated 26,000 YBP are suggested as being those of a dog, however...
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    humans. Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs is made at Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardéche gorge, France. Discovered in December 1994...
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    ago) include cave painting (such as at Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira, Cosquer, and Pech Merle), incised / engraved cave art such as at Creswell Crags, portable...
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    Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, containing one of the earliest known Paleolithic cave paintings, about 30,000 years old (featured in the 3D documentary Cave...
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