Chauvet cave

2277 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Chauvet (34,000 BCE)

“These paintings in Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in France are more than 36,000 years old.”

When was art born? Have you ever thought about art in that aspect? Was the birth of art incidental or something that came about due to deliberate thought and

In 1994, cave explorers Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet made a world-changing discovery. In southern France, the explorers felt drafts of air shooting up from the ground. After a bit of digging they discovered a tiny shaft leading into the depths of the earth. Squeezing into that narrow hole, they leapt into the unknown. […]

Cave Painting . Chauvet . France

The lumbering beasts coexisted with the first humans for tens of thousands of years and then died off. Why?

Witness the beauty of history with these ancient cave paintings across the world. Use TripHobo to plan your trip.

Chauvet Cave in the valley of the Ardèche River in France is filled with paintings, engravings and drawings created more than 30 000 years ago, of cave lions, mammoths, rhinos, bison, cave bears and horses. It contains the earliest known cave paintings, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. It is situated on a limestone cliff above the former bed of the Ardèche River. The cave was first explored on December 18, 1994. As well as the paintings they discovered fossilised…

Discovered on Sunday 18 December 1994 by Jean-Marie Chauvet, Éliette Brunel and Christian Hillaire during a private speleological exploration, the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave is one of the oldest decorated Palaeolithic caves in the world.