Ancient site · France · Still standing
Chauvet Cave
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave is a limestone cave in southeastern France containing a dense assemblage of Upper Paleolithic figurative paintings and human traces. It preserves hundreds of animal images, torch marks, footprints and hearth remains dating mainly to the Aurignacian period. The cave is sealed to the public and its paintings are studied and conserved; a full-size replica open to visitors reproduces the site's visual environment.
Its prime
32000
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 32000
The shape it held in its prime.
Warm tan and ochre limestone walls polished in places to lighter, almost cream panels; long, sinuous black charcoal lines and smudges forming large animal outlines across cracked rock; occasional red-ochre hand stencils and smears; ceilings and walls bearing torch-blackened streaks and mineral crusts; floors of soft clay with depressions and prints; narrow vaulted passages opening into wider chambers with uneven rock surfaces and visible fissures and calcite deposits.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 32000.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Chauvet Cave — including 7 interiors: gallery of the lions, end chamber vestibule — pendant venus and adjacent bison head, panel of butting woolly rhinoceroses and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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