The archaeology of Lascaux Cave.

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Output type: Journal article

Author list: Leroi-Gourhan A.

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

Publication year: 1982

Journal: Scientific American (0036-8733)

Volume number: 246

Issue number: 6

Start page: 104

End page: 112

Number of pages: 9

ISSN: 0036-8733

URL: http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:0020382173

Abstract

Lascaux Cave is in the Dordogne region of SW France. It was discovered in 1940. The cave was closed to tourists in 1963 because the dust, fungi and dampness that entered the cave with the visitors were threatening to destroy the paintings. There are nearly 1 500 engravings and about 600 paintings. Flint tools, stone lamps and pallettes have been found in the cave. Scaffolding was used to work on the higher walls and ceiling. The area near the cave provided manganese oxide, red and yellow iron oxide and clay for pigments. Stone and bone artifacts in the cave all belong to the lower Magdalenian period of about 15 000 BC. Lascaux Cave offers a site to study the art of the Upper Palaeolithic.-F.McElhoe Jr

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