Verified rock art sites in France

Mysteria

Verified rock art sites in France · Mysteria

🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Cosquer Cave

Gravettian–Solutrean ~27–19 ka BP · Gravettian–Solutrean coastal

Submerged 27 ka painted cave 37 m under Mediterranean with great-auk and hand stencils.

🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Niaux Cave

Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian ~14–13 ka BP · Magdalenian hunter-gatherer

Magdalenian Salon Noir cave with 14 ka charcoal bison and ibex deep in the Ariège Pyrenees.

🇫🇷 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.

🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Lascaux Cave

Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean/Magdalenian, ~17,000–15,000 BCE) · Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer (Magdalenian)

Sealed Upper Paleolithic cave on the Vézère renowned as the 'Sistine Chapel of Prehistory' for about 600 parietal paintings and nearly 1,500 engravings executed with astonishing naturalism.

🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Font-de-Gaume Cave

Magdalenian ~17–14 ka BP · Magdalenian

Vézère polychrome gallery with 230 Magdalenian figures, last original painted cave open to public.

🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Chauvet Cave

Aurignacian, Upper Paleolithic (~37,000–33,000 BCE) · Aurignacian hunter-gatherer

Sealed Aurignacian cave above the Ardèche gorge containing the earliest known figurative art, with over 430 animal representations including woolly rhinoceros, cave lions, panthers and megaloceros…