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Lascaux (English: / l æ ˈ s k oʊ / la-SKOH, [1] US also / l ɑː ˈ s k oʊ / lah-SKOH; [2] French: Grotte de Lascaux [ɡʁɔt də lasko], [3] "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the ...
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 ...
Dots dating to 14,500 BC found on the walls of the Lascaux caves map of part of the night sky, including the three bright stars Vega, Deneb, and Altair (the Summer Triangle asterism), as well as the Pleiades star cluster. The Cuevas de El Castillo in Spain that contains a dot map of the Corona Borealis constellation dating from 12,000 BC.
Rouffignac Cave, in Rouffignac, is part of the longest cave system in the region. It contains a few hundred engravings and monochrome paintings, mainly of mammoths: most of these are situated about 2 km (1.2 mi) from the cave entrance. An electrical train takes visitors from the entrance to the location of the art.
The Vézère valley was dubbed the "Valley of Mankind" from the end of the nineteenth century following the numerous discoveries of exceptional prehistoric sites, including the Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter, the cave of Font-de-Gaume, and the Combarelles caves in Les Eyzies. It also the location of the Lascaux cave in Montignac.
The main attraction of the region is the Lascaux Cave, a complex of caves containing Upper Paleolithic painted art discovered in 1940 and estimated to be 17,300 years old. The cave was put on show in 1948, but it was found that the paintings were being damaged by the carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors, and in 1963, the cave was closed to the ...
Map of the Franco-Cantabrian region, showing the main caves containing mural art. The Franco-Cantabrian region (also Franco-Cantabric region ) is a term applied in archaeology and history to refer to an area that stretches from Asturias , in northern Spain , to Aquitaine and Provence in Southern France .
For details and photographs, please see Pech-Merle Cave Paintings. Lascaux Cave, Montignac, Dordogne, France — Discovered in 1940 and dating from 17,000 B.C., Lascaux contains seven decorated chambers with more than 2000 painted images, including the extraordinary Hall of the Bulls which, despite the name given to it, features mostly pregnant ...