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Chauvet Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Links

Ministry of Culture - The Chauvet Cave


Offical French Ministry of Culture information site in English

Includes an interactive map with photos.
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Chance Posted by Chance
21st February 2011ce

Dons maps - Chauvet Cave


An enthusiast web site by Don Hitchcock from Armidale NSW, with some excellent photographs and articles on the caves and the area
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Chance Posted by Chance
21st February 2011ce

Chauvet Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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21st February 2011ce

Chauvet Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Miscellaneous

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave is a cave in the Ardèche department (7) of southern France that contains the earliest known cave paintings, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. It is located near the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on a limestone cliff above the former bed of the Ardèche River.

Discovered in 1994, it is considered one of the most significant prehistoric art sites.

The cave was first explored on December 18, 1994 by a group of three speleologists: Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet, for whom it was named.

On top of the paintings and other human evidence they also discovered fossilized remains, prints, and markings from a variety of animals, some of which are now extinct. Further study by French archaeologist Jean Clottes has revealed much about the site, though the dating has been the matter of some dispute.
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Chance Posted by Chance
21st February 2011ce

Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 3 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Fieldnotes

Access: See Dolmens du Font Mejanne page.

Visited Tuesday 11 September 2007
Similar to Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 1 & Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 2, but with a suspicion a rocky cairn.

The same angling and shaping of the sideslabs, creating the same portal tomb-type feeling. Being the highest up the valley of the 3, its setting is even more beautiful.
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28th November 2009ce

Dolmen du Font Mejanne No 3 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images

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