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Chauvet Cave

Cave in the Ardèche holding some of the oldest and best-preserved figurative art known, first explored in 1994: hundreds of paintings across at least 13 species, unusually dominated by predators - lions, bears, rhinoceroses - rarely the subject of other Paleolithic art.

Dated events and their evidence

• 36,500 BCE mainstream
  the earliest paintings, among the oldest figurative art known source
• 34,000 BCE mainstream
  main painted panels (two occupation phases, c. 37,000-28,000 years ago) source
• 1994 CE mainstream
  discovery by Jean-Marie Chauvet and colleagues source
• 1994 CE mainstream
  the sealed cave discovered, its art untouched source
• 2014 CE mainstream
  UNESCO World Heritage source

Where

44.3875° N, 4.4142° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523158113
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave

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