Dawn of art : the Chauvet Cave : the oldest known paintings in the world

Book 1996

In December 1994, in the Ardeche Valley of southeast France, three explorers chanced upon the hidden entrance to an underground cavern. Digging away the rubble, they made their way through a narrow passage into a vast cave, and there made one of the most thrilling discoveries of modern times: The Chauvet cave, named for one of the discoverers, which had been untouched for thousands of years. It was filled with Stone Age cave bear skeletons and fo...

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Chauvet Cave (France)

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ISBN:

9780810932326
0810932326

Description:

135 pages : color illustrations, map ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Grotte Chauvet à Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. English
Chauvet Cave

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-130) and index

Contents:

Foreword / Paul G. Bahn
Discovery of Chauvet Cave
Gorges of the Ardeche
Three Discoverers
Birth of a Team
Exploration
Our Discoveries in the Gorges of the Ardeche
Decorated Caves
Discovery of Chauvet Cave
Path along the Cliff
First Steps in an Immense Gallery
Traces of Red Ochre
Depictions of a Kind Unknown in the Ardeche
Panel of the Horses
Lion Panel
Cave's Morphology
Protection and Authentication
Epilogue: Chauvet Cave Today / Jean Clottes
Authentication
Floors
Themes
Pictorial Techniques
How Old are these Drawings?
Radiocarbon Dates of Chauvet Cave
Originality of Chauvet Cave

LCCN:

95047571

Control Number:

60306

Other Authors:

Bahn, Paul G., translator
Brunel Deschamps, Eliette, author
Hillaire, Christian, author

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