Lascaux Cave

[las-koh]

noun

1. a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).

Example Sentences

Reagan called film “the world’s most enduring art form,” which must have puzzled admirers of Mozart, Giotto and the Lascaux Cave paintings.

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Another approach, advanced by the Madrid-based Factum Foundation, is to create realistic replicas that tourists can visit instead of the tombs — a model pioneered in France, where a full-scale replica of the Lascaux Cave and its prehistoric drawings has replaced the sealed-off original as a tourist destination.

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Recent episodes feature refreshingly uncynical takes on the opening scene of “Penguins of Madagascar” and on a hot dog stand in Reykjavik, Iceland; the literary version includes essays on scratch-and-sniff stickers, Lascaux cave paintings and velociraptors.

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Such representations of animals characterize the 35,000- to 30,000-year-old Chauvet Cave paintings in southern France, those of a similar age that were found in the Coliboaia Cave in Romania and the famous 20,000-year-old Lascaux Cave images in southwestern France Lascaux has been described as the “Sistine Chapel of prehistory” because of its breathtaking beauty.

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Until recently, the oldest direct evidence of string technology came from a site called Ohalo II in Israel and the famed Lascaux Cave in France.

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