Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages The Chauvet Cave paintings were discovered by three local explorers. It was December 18, 1994. French cavers Jean-Marie Chauvet, Éliette Brunel Deschamps ...

What they found that Sunday in 1994 still fills Chauvet’s voice with wonder: an immense cave covered with prehistoric paintings of horses, mammoths and rhinos — paintings so vivid, he says ...

The Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered.

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The paintings in Chauvet are 20,000 years older than the first Paleolithic cave art discovered, the bulls of Altamira. It’s extremely sophisticated and it upends our ideas about the development ...

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That means the art must be at least 21,000 years old. "Remarkably agreeing with the radiocarbon dates of the human and animal occupancy, this study confirms that the Chauvet cave paintings are the ...

The cave paintings at Chauvet are already among the oldest, most beautiful and most elaborate in the world. Like all other known cave art in Europe, they depict animals and – in the case of ...

It appears they went there mostly to create their symbolic art. “A human group (band or tribe) visited the Chauvet cave during the first period around 36,000 years ago for cultural purposes ...

The Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered.