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Replica of a Mylodon inside the cave The "Devil's Chair" at the entrance of the monumental cave Interior of the largest cave. Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is a Natural Monument located in the Chilean Patagonia, [1] 24 km (15 mi) northwest of Puerto Natales and 270 km (168 mi) north of Punta Arenas.
Prehistoric France is the period in the human occupation (including early hominins) of the geographical area covered by present-day France which extended through prehistory and ended in the Iron Age with the Roman conquest, when the territory enters the domain of written history.
List of prehistoric barnacles; List of prehistoric brittle stars; List of prehistoric bryozoan genera; List of prehistoric chitons; List of prehistoric foraminifera genera; List of ichthyosaur genera; List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record; List of plesiosaur genera; List of prehistoric malacostracans; List of prehistoric ...
Horse hunting at Solutré, from an illustration in L'Homme primitif by Louis Figuier, 1876. The expression "Solutré horse" (from the French cheval de Solutré) refers to the remains of prehistoric equids discovered near the Rock of Solutré by Adrien Arcelin and Henry Testot-Ferry in 1866, then studied by Professor Toussaint in 1874.
The Isturitz cave is divided into two parts: the Hall of Saint-Martin (or South Hall) and the Main Hall or Hall of Isturitz (or North Hall). At the beginning of the Mesolithic, the opening that faces the town of Saint-Martin-d’Arberoue is estimated to have been 15 and 20 m wide and about 10 m high, making it visible to humans a distance.
Dicrocerus elegans is an extinct species of deer found in France, Europe. Dicrocerus probably came from Asia, from the region where true deer are believed to have originated and evolved. It inhabited forests in the temperate belt and in Europe it was typical of the Miocene (15-5 million years ago).
The Pair-non-Pair Cave is located near the village of Prignac-et-Marcamps, Aquitaine:Gironde (33) department in France. [1] Only discovered in 1881 it is known for remarkable prehistoric parietal engravings - petroglyphic representations of wild animals (horses, ibexes, cervidae, bovines and mammoths), "which rank among the most ancient examples of art made by prehistoric" humans, dating back ...
The National Museum of Prehistory presents an exceptionally rich prehistoric past in situ, and conserves some 6 million objects. [1] A site museum avant la lettre, at the heart of the Vézère Valley "museum site", which declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 for the importance of the Paleolithic remains, [2] and a reflection of rapidly expanding archaeological research, it now ...