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Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical local contemporary fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the Upper Paleolithic in the area. They are the combined effort of many generations.
Lascaux Cave is famous for its prehistoric cave paintings, dating from c. 17,000 to c. 15,000 BCE. There are close to 600 paintings mostly of animals, such as horses, deer, aurochs, ibex, bison, and even some felines.
The discovery of the monumental Lascaux cave in 1940 brought with it a new era in our knowledge of both prehistoric art and human origins. Today, the cave continues to feed our collective imagination and to profoundly move new generations of visitors from around the world.
The painted walls of the interconnected series of caves in Lascaux in southwestern France are among the most impressive and well-known artistic creations of Paleolithic humans.
The Lascaux Cave is famous for its Palaeolithic cave paintings, found in a complex of caves in southwestern France, because of the exceptional quality, size, sophistication and antiquity of the cave art.
Lascaux, cave containing one of the most outstanding displays of prehistoric art yet discovered. Located above the Vézère River valley near Montignac, in Dordogne, France, the cave is a short distance upstream from the Eyzies-de-Tayac series of caves.
Opened in 1983, the Lascaux II site is near the original cave. It displays reproductions of two parts of the cave: the Great Hall of the Bulls and the Painted Gallery. We visited Lascaux IV, which is a life-sized and complete replica of the cave, including all of the hundreds of prehistoric artworks. It’s also not far from the original cave.
The discovery of the monumental Lascaux cave in 1940 brought with it a new era in our knowledge of both prehistoric art and human origins. Today, the cave continues to feed our collective imagination and to profoundly move new generations of visitors from around the world.
Lascaux Cave Paintings (17,000 BCE): Discovery, Dating, Layout, Materials and Painting Techniques.
And perfect proof of early man’s heightened awareness of the natural world is the Lascaux Cave – a masterpiece of Paleolithic cave painting, and an important vision of the world that existed roughly 17 millennia ago.