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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]
The creation of the Caverne du Pont-d'Arc is a project which is cultural, scientific and technological, unique in its design and in its size (3,500 m 2 (38,000 sq ft) on the ground and 8,180 m 2 (88,000 sq ft) of geological facies - floors, walls and ceilings) making it the largest decorated replica cavern in the world.
The village is named after the Pont d'Arc, a natural rock arch, which has been classified as a Great Site of France. Vallon-Pont-d'Arc is also the location of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the decorated cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc., and its replica, Chauvet Cave 2.
Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: 30,000–28,000 BCE cultural 2014 - Earliest-known and best-preserved figurative drawings in the world. [45] 1425 The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Middle Ages–present cultural 2015 -
From the early 1990s Baffier was part of the team working at the Arcy-sur-Cure caves where she studied the paintings discovered in 1990 in the Great Cave (la Grande Grotte). [2] Next she joined the scientific team led by Jean Clottes, which studied the Chauvet cave, sometimes known as the Pont d'Arc cave. [3]
Pech Merle is a French hillside cave at Cabrerets, in the Lot département of the Occitania region, about 32 kilometres (19.88 miles) east of Cahors, by road.It is one of the few prehistoric cave painting sites in France that remains open to the general public, albeit with an entry fee.
The town centre. The commune is located at the confluence of the Vézère and the Beune rivers. It is accessible by the SNCF network at the Gare des Eyzies, by the A89 motorway, exit 16 Périgueux-East (Bordeaux – Périgueux axis) and then by the D710 road or by Montignac via Terrasson (Lyon - Terrasson-Lavilledieu axis).
Jean Clottes is a prominent French prehistorian.He was born in the French Pyrenees in 1933 [1] [2] and began to study archaeology in 1959, while teaching high school. He initially focused on Neolithic dolmens, which were the topic of his 1975 Ph.D. thesis at the University of Toulouse.