Font de Gaume is a cave in southwestern France near Les Eyzies. A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France. The cave houses a collection of prehistoric polychrome cave paintings, and is a popular site for tourists. Stone Age Paleolithic See also Paleolithic, Recent African Origin, Early Homo sapiens, Early human migrations "Paleolithic" For the character from the Oz series see Polychrome (fictional character. Cave paintings are Paintings on Cave walls and ceilings and the term is used especially for those dating to Prehistoric times
History of Font de Gaume
Prehistoric people living in the Dordogne Valley first settled in the mouth of Font de Gaume around 25,000 BC. Dordogne (Dordonha is a department in central France named after the Dordogne River. The cave mouth was inhabited at least sporadically for the next several thousand years. However, after the original prehistoric inhabitants left, the cave was forgotten until the nineteenth century when local people again began to visit the cave.
In 1901, Denis Peyrony, a school teacher from Les Eyzies, discovered the paintings inside Font de Gaume. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The paintings date from around 17000 BC, during the Magdalénien period. The Magdalenian, also spelled Magdalénien refers to one of the later cultures of the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe. However, many of the cave's paintings were discovered much later. The cave's most famous painting, a frieze of five bison was discovered accidentally in 1966 while scientists were cleaning the cave.
The Paintings
Font de Gaume holds over 200 polychrome paintings and is considered the best example of polychrome painting other than Lascaux, which is now closed to the public. For the character from the Oz series see Polychrome (fictional character. Lascaux is the setting of a complex of Caves in southwestern France famous for its prehistoric Cave paintings The original caves are located near The paintings in Font de Gaume include depictions of more than 80 bison, approximately 40 horse depictions, and more than 20 mammoth depictions. This is an article about an animal For other uses see Bison (disambiguation. The horse ( Equus caballus) is a hoofed ( Ungulate) Mammal, one of eight living species of the family Equidae. A mammoth is any Species of the Extinct Genus Mammuthus. These Proboscideans are members of the elephant family and
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