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The famous shaft scene of Lascaux: a man with a bird head and a bison. According to David Lewis-Williams and Jean Clottes who both studied presumably similar art of the San people of Southern Africa, this type of art is spiritual in nature relating to visions experienced during ritualistic trance-dancing.
Le Regourdou [1] (or Le Régourdou) [2] is an archaeological site in the Dordogne department, France, on top of a hill just 800 m (2,600 ft) from the famous cave complex of Lascaux. At this now collapsed 35 m (115 ft) deep ancient karst cavity remarkably well preserved Neanderthal fossils were recovered, that might be skeletal remains of ...
Other possible hybrid figures are the Shaman of Trois-Frères and a "Bison-man" from the same cave system, another "Bison-man" from the Grotte de Gabillou in the Dordogne, and what might be a bird-headed man in the "Shaft of the Dead Man" in the Lascaux caves. Representation of males are rare prior to incipient Mesolithic.
The same book then lists 7 masterpieces of prehistoric art, including Lascaux, Les Combarelles and Font de Gaume. Twelve of the 15 listed sites are open to a limited number of visitors per day (in most cases less than 100 per day). Two sites (La Mouthe and La Madeleine) are completely inaccessible to the public.
Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs arguably remains the most sexually explicit (non-porn) British movie of all time. It contains several scenes of unsimulated sex between the two leads (Kieran O'Brien ...
The three-part docuseries, Sin City Gigolos: A Murder in Las Vegas, premiering March 4 on Paramount+, is tasked with "documenting a vicious death while weaving together revealing scenes and ...
In our continuing trek through the old west and mine country in Blackwood & Bell Mysteries on Facebook, we're finally able to head into the mine shaft to find items necessary to solving our case.
In 1997, while visiting Lascaux, Eshleman was permitted to descend into and examine the scene in the shaft of the cave for thirty minutes. He realized his investigation into the painted caves was complete.