One of the World’s Artistic Archaeological Wonders 17 kya Lascaux Cave.

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One of the World’s Artistic Archaeological Wonders 17 kya Lascaux Cave

Lascaux Cave Landscape southwestern France near the Vézère River (say, VIS-air)

Lascaux Cave A Teenage Discovery in 1940

Painted Gallery

Painted Gallery Entrance (stag) Painted Gallery back wall (bison)

Great Hall of Great Hall of the Bulls

Main Gallery

Black Cow Panel & quadrangular signs

Main Gallery’s end & shaft

Scene of Dead Man, Shaft of the Dead Man

Visiting scholars at Lascaux Cave 1940 Abbé Henri Breuil: “…a new cave-art sanctuary has been found…”

Lascaux Cave – post WWII Tourist Attraction Excess carbon dioxide, from visitors’ breath, caused deterioration of paintings by 1955… …condensation on walls corroded on rock faces, leading to moss and algae.

Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux Lascaux closed to the public in 1963

Conservation at Lascaux Culture Gouv, France; Photo: MCC/DRAC Aquitane/Grotte de Lascaux 2001 colonies of microrganisms, mushrooms, bacteria developed on rock edges and floor. * fungicides, antibiotics IMMEDIATELY used to contain the problem.

1980 Life Size Copy of Lascaux Under Construction Construction of cement shell across a wire mesh. This created the skin of the lifesize replica of Lascaux Cave. The shell corresponds exactly in shape to the interior of the original.

Projecting images from original onto replica wall of Lascaux Cave Lascaux II - open to the public since 1983

Cosquer Cave, France 30 kya Cave entrance was not underwater between kya (drop in sea levels during late Pleistocene) Bradshaw Foundation

Cosquer Cave

“It is interesting to see how the same information can lead to such completely different results.” Lawrence Robbins 1983:58