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  2. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    The art in the cave is dated between 7,300 BC and 700 AD; [a] stenciled, mostly left hands are shown. [3] [4] In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin.

  3. Marsoulas Cave - Wikipedia

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    The Marsoulas Cave in southwestern France, near Marsoulas in the Haute-Garonne, [1] is a small cave notable for its archaeological wealth, including Paleolithic cave paintings and ornaments from the Magdalenian. [2] It consists of a straight gallery about 100 m (330 ft) long with parietal art along the entire length of the cave. [3]

  4. Rock art - Wikipedia

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    Parietal art is a term for art in caves; this definition usually extended to art in rock shelters under cliff overhangs. Popularly, it is called "cave art", and is a subset of the wider term, rock art. It is mostly on rock walls, but may be on ceilings and floors. A wide variety of techniques have been used in its creation.

  5. Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure - Wikipedia

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    Some hold remarkable parietal art, the second oldest presently known after those of the Chauvet cave. Another notable characteristic of these caves is the time-long series of pollen, related to determined and consistent archaeological levels. [3] Between 1947 and 1963, they were searched by the French prehistorians Arlette and André Leroi ...

  6. Cueva de las Manos - Wikipedia

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    The earliest rock art at the site was created around 7,300 BC. [4] Cueva de las Manos is the only site in the region with rock art of this age, categorized as the A1 and A2 styles of the cave, but after 6,800 BC similar art, particularly hunting scenes of styles A3, A4, and A5, was created at other sites in the region. [27]

  7. Chauvet Cave - Wikipedia

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    The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [2]

  8. Rock art of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Rock art paintings of aurochs at the Upper Palaeolithic cave site of Lascaux in southwestern France. Rock art has been produced in Europe since the Upper Palaeolithic period through to recent centuries. It is found in all of the major regions of the continent. [1] One of the most famous examples of parietal art is the Grotte Chauvet in France. [2]

  9. Cave of the Trois-Frères - Wikipedia

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    The Cave of the Trois-Frères is a cave in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings.It is located in Montesquieu-Avantès, in the Ariège département.The cave is named for three brothers (French: trois frères, pronounced [tʁwɑ fʁɛʁ]), Max, Jacques, and Louis Begouën, who, along with their father Comte Henri Begouën [], discovered it in 1914. [1]

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