Lascaux (English: /læˈskoʊ/ la-SKOH, US also /lɑːˈskoʊ/ lah-SKOH; French: Grotte de Lascaux [ɡʁɔt də lasko], "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near...
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Montignac-Lascaux (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tiɲak lasko]; Limousin: Montinhac or Montinhac de Las Caus; before 2020: Montignac, also called Montignac-sur-Vézère)...
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Constellation (section Lascaux Caves, southern France)
Pleiades in the "Salle des Taureaux", grotte de Lascaux. Does a rock picture in the cave of Lascaux show the open star cluster of the Pleiades at the...
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Lascaux (French pronunciation: [lasko]; Occitan: Las Caums) is a commune in the Corrèze department in south-central France. Communes of the Corrèze department...
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emergence of cave painting in the Dordogne and Pyrenees, including at Lascaux, dated to c. 18,000 BC. At the end of the Last Glacial Period (10,000 BC)...
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Paleolithic cave paintings from Lascaux in France (c. 15,000 BCE)...
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Pécany Puymartin Saulnier The famous caves of Lascaux have been closed to the public, but a replica of Lascaux II is open to visitors and is a major tourist...
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Paleolithic cave representations of animals are found in areas such as Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain in Europe, Maros, Sulawesi in Asia, and Gabarnmung...
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mammoths, lynx, bactrian camels, and ostriches, earning it the nickname "the Lascaux of Mongolia". The Venus figurines of Mal'ta (21,000 years ago) testify...
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archaeologists Henri Breuil and Denis Peyrony in the early twentieth century, while Lascaux, which has the most exceptional rock art of these, was discovered in 1940...
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