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Lascaux (English: /læˈskoʊ/ la-SKOH, US also /lɑːˈskoʊ/ lah-SKOH; French:
Grotte de
Lascaux [ɡʁɔt də lasko], "
Lascaux Cave") is a
network of
caves near...
- Montignac-
Lascaux (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tiɲak lasko]; Limousin:
Montinhac or
Montinhac de Las Caus;
before 2020: Montignac, also
called Montignac-sur-Vézère)...
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Pleiades in the "Salle des Taureaux",
grotte de
Lascaux. Does a rock
picture in the cave of
Lascaux show the open star
cluster of the
Pleiades at the...
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Lascaux (French pronunciation: [lasko]; Occitan: Las Caums) is a
commune in the Corrèze
department in south-central France.
Communes of the Corrèze department...
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years to
Paleolithic cave
representations of
animals such as
those at
Lascaux in
France and
Altamira in Spain. In
ancient Egypt, ink
drawings on papyrus...
- as the
Early Bronze Age, but the well-known
Magdalenian style seen at
Lascaux in
France (c. 15,000 BC) and
Altamira in
Spain died out
about 10,000 BC...
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emergence of cave
painting in the
Dordogne and Pyrenees,
including at
Lascaux,
dated to c. 18,000 BC. At the end of the Last
Glacial Period (10,000 BC)...
- mammoths, lynx,
bactrian camels, and ostriches,
earning it the
nickname "the
Lascaux of Mongolia". The
Venus figurines of Mal'ta (21,000
years ago) testify...
- site
where groups of
Magdalenian hunter-gatherers congregated.
Lascaux cave
painting Lascaux cave
painting Altamira cave
painting Some
skulls were cleaned...
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archaeologists Henri Breuil and
Denis Peyrony in the
early twentieth century,
while Lascaux,
which has the most
exceptional rock art of these, was
discovered in 1940...
