one of the world’s artistic archaeological wonders 17 kya lascaux cave
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One of the
World’s Artistic
Archaeological
Wonders
17 kya
Lascaux Cave
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Lascaux Cave Landscape
southwestern France
near the Vézère River
(say, VIS-air)
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Lascaux Cave
A Teenage Discovery in 1940
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Painted
Gallery
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Painted Gallery
Entrance
(stag)
Painted Gallery
back wall
(bison)
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Great Hall ofGreat Hall of the Bulls
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Great Hall of the Bulls
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Main Gallery
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Main Gallery
Black Cow Panel & quadrangular signs
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Main Gallery’s end & shaft
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Scene of Dead Man,
Shaft of the Dead Man
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Visiting scholars at Lascaux Cave 1940
Abbé Henri Breuil: “…a new cave-art sanctuary has been found…”
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Lascaux Cave – post WWII Tourist Attraction
Excess carbon dioxide,
from visitors’ breath, caused deterioration of paintings by 1955…
…condensation on walls corroded on rock faces, leading to moss and algae.
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Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux
Lascaux closed to the public in 1963
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Conservation at Lascaux
Culture Gouv, France; Photo: MCC/DRAC Aquitane/Grotte de Lascaux
2001 colonies of microrganisms , mushrooms, bacteria developed on rock edges and floor.
* fungicides, antibiotics IMMEDIATELY used to contain the problem.
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1980 Life Size Copy of Lascaux Under Construction
Construction of cement shell across a wire mesh.
This created the skin of the lifesize replica of Lascaux Cave.
The shell corresponds exactly in shape to the interior of the original.
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Projecting images from original
onto replica wall of Lascaux Cave
Lascaux II - open to the public since 1983
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Cosquer Cave, France 30 kyaCave entrance was not underwater
between 19-29 kya (drop in sea levels during late Pleistocene)
Bradshaw Foundation
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Cosquer Cave
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/cosquer/
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