Lascaux
Cave complex in the Dordogne discovered by teenagers in 1940, holding over 600 painted and engraved Ice Age animals - the best-known masterpiece of Paleolithic art, closed to the public since 1963 to halt deterioration and now visited only through full-scale replicas.
Dated events and their evidence
- 17,000 BCE mainstream
main painted panels (early Magdalenian) source - 1940 CE mainstream
discovery by Marcel Ravidat and friends source
Where
45.0536° N, 1.1700° E
Sources
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