The Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered. Now, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Very, very few people have been allowed into the Chauvet cave in Southeastern France since it was discovered in 1994 and found to ...

Director and filmmaker, Werner Herzog’s latest, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, is a strange mix of flighty pseudo-intellectual reverie and jaw-dropping documentary. Filmed in the famously inaccessible ...

Object Details Author Chauvet, Jean-Marie Brunel Deschamps, Eliette Hillaire, Christian Date 1996 Type Books Physical description 135 p. : col. ill., map ; 32 x 27 cm Place France Vallon-Pont-d'Arc ...

If you are interested in the history of humanity, it undoubtedly leads you back to the period when Neanderthals lived. Unfortunately, little is known about how these early humans lived in this era.

In the absence of any documentation on prehistory, speleological explorations are the only way to reconstruct the history of ancient times. Tools, bones, everyday objects, carvings, sculptures and ...

Dawn of art : the Chauvet Cave : the oldest known paintings in the world / Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire ; epilogue by Jean Clottes ; foreword by Paul G. Bahn ; ...