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Lascaux Cave

American  
[las-koh] / lasˈkoʊ /

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.).


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

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2023

In the 1950s, radiocarbon dating on paintings in the Lascaux Cave in southern France showed that the images — of horses and other animals — were made 15,500 years ago.

From New York Times Nov. 7, 2018

Lascaux Cave, located near Montignac, France, contains more than 2,000 paintings and engravings, which date to some 15,000 or more years ago.

From Scientific American Feb. 19, 2013

Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years ago; one of the most recent is the symbolic bull in Picasso's heroless Guernica.

From Time Magazine Archive

For more than 16,000 years, the prehistoric paintings in France's famed Lascaux Cave survived in splendid isolation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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