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

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

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One of the

World’s Artistic

Archaeological

Wonders

17 kya

Lascaux Cave

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Lascaux Cave Landscape

southwestern France

near the Vézère River

(say, VIS-air)

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Lascaux Cave

A Teenage Discovery in 1940

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Painted

Gallery

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Painted Gallery

Entrance

(stag)

Painted Gallery

back wall

(bison)

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Great Hall ofGreat Hall of the Bulls

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Great Hall of the Bulls

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Main Gallery

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Main Gallery

Black Cow Panel & quadrangular signs

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Main Gallery’s end & shaft

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Scene of Dead Man,

Shaft of the Dead Man

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Visiting scholars at Lascaux Cave 1940

Abbé Henri Breuil: “…a new cave-art sanctuary has been found…”

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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.

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Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux

Lascaux closed to the public in 1963

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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.

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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.

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Projecting images from original

onto replica wall of Lascaux Cave

Lascaux II - open to the public since 1983

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Cosquer Cave, France 30 kyaCave entrance was not underwater

between 19-29 kya (drop in sea levels during late Pleistocene)

Bradshaw Foundation

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Cosquer Cave

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/cosquer/

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“It is interesting to see how the same information can lead to such completely different results.”

Lawrence Robbins 1983:58