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Cave paintings · Mysteria

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Cave paintings

Every place in the atlas labelled cave paintings.

Places: 17
Countries: 9
World Heritage: 9

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🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Pech Merle Cave

Gravettian to Solutrean ~29–20 ka BP · Gravettian hunter-gatherer

Quercy cave with Spotted Horses and 307 hand stencils, 25 ka Gravettian masterpiece.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

Altamira Cave

Solutrean–Magdalenian ~18–14 ka BP · Solutrean/Magdalenian Cantabrian

Great Ceiling of polychrome bison — the Paleolithic Sistine Chapel at Santillana del Mar.