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Places tagged “paleolithic” in France · Mysteria

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Places tagged “paleolithic” in France

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🇫🇷 France

🇫🇷 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.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇫🇷 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.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇫🇷 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…