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Chauvet Cave : the art of earliest times / directed by Jean Clottes ; translated by Paul G. Bahn ; [with contributions by] Maurice Arnold ... [et al.].

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Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2003.

Magdalenian culture -- France -- Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.

Cave paintings -- France -- Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.

Art, Prehistoric -- France -- Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.

Chauvet Cave (France)

Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (France) -- Antiquities.

225 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 35 cm.

1. How to study the cave? -- Our initial project ; in response to the call for tenders ; Research team ; Work carried out and its problems -- 2. Cave in its setting -- Pont D'Arc and its surroundings ; Chauvet Cave and its geological life ; From geological times to the era of humankind ; Climate ; Humans in the Ardeche in the Ice Age -- 3. Floors and incursions into the cave by animals and people -- Dates of the incursions into the cave ; Prints and traces of humans and animals ; Visiting the cave and human activities ; Animal bones on the cave floor -- 4. Drawing in the cave --Entrance Chamber, the Chamber of the Bear Hollows ; Morel Chamber ; Brunel Chamber ; Cactus Gallery ; Red Panels Gallery ; Rouzaud Chamber ; Candle Gallery ; Hillaire Chamber, around the Large Collapse ; Skull Chamber ; Gallery of the crosshatching ; Horse Sector ; Megaloceros Gallery ; End Chamber ; Conclusion -- 5. Techniques of parietal art -- Techniques of parietal art -- 6. Lots of animals and signs -- Dots and hands ; Signs ; Depictions of humans ; Indeterminate animals ; Rhinoceroses ; Felines ; Mammoths ; Horses ; Bovines ; Ibex ; Cervids ; Bears ; Musk oxen ; Conclusion -- 7. Other points of view -- Chauvet : a new chapter in the history of art ; Anthropological view -- 8. Conclusion.

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