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Excavation ongoing world heritage places tagged “magdalenian”

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Rock art sites11 Archaeological wonders10 Cave paintings5 Caves2 Petroglyphs2

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🇫🇷France6 🇪🇸Spain5

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magdalenian11 unesco4 vezere4 polychrome3 pyrenees3 aurochs2 bison2 cave art

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🇫🇷 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.

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🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

Tito Bustillo Cave

Solutrean to Magdalenian ~18–11 ka BP · Magdalenian Cantabrian

Ribadesella polychrome Magdalenian cave sealed until 1968 with 14 ka harpoon culture art.

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🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

Siega Verde Rock Art

Gravettian to Magdalenian ~20–11 ka BP · Upper Paleolithic Iberian

2 km open-air schist engravings paired with Côa Valley, 443 Paleolithic pecked figures.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Rouffignac Cave

Magdalenian ~13 ka BP · Magdalenian

8 km mammoth gallery with 158 manganese woolly-mammoth figures and children's finger fluting.