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Work Details:

Title:Chauvet Cave
Culture/Nationality:Paleolithic
Style:Aurignacian
Date:c. 30,000-28,000 BCE
Location:Chauvet Cave, Ard eche Gorge
Auroch
 
Bear skull placed on a rock
 
Big bison in the End Chamber
 
Bison and lion heads
 
Bison from the Megaloceros Gallery
 
Cervids on the Reindeer Panel
 
Engraved horse
 
Engraved owl
 
Flattened sketch of Sorcerer Panel
 
General plan
 
Horse Sector
 
Horse Sector in the Alcove of the Lions
 
Horses in the Alcove of the Lions
 
Horses, Rhinoceroses and Aurochs
 
Horses, Rhinoceroses and Aurochs
 
Horses, rhinoceroses, and aurochs
 
Ibex
 
Large Panel of Red Dots
 
Left side of the Lion Panel
 
Lion Panel in the End Chamber
 
Lower part of the Panel of the Rhinoceroses
 
Mammoth in the End Chamber
 
Mammoth in the Skull Chamber
 
Mammoths in the Hillaire Chamber
 
Megaloceros
 
Panel of the Engraved Horse
 
Panel of the Horses
 
Panel of the Little Bear
 
Panel of the Rhinoceroses
 
Panther Panel
 
Partly erased mammoth
 
Red bear in the Cactus Gallery
 
Red hand stencil and partial outline of a mammoth
 
Rhinoceros
 
Right side of the Lion Panel
 
Right wall of the Sacristy
 
Skull Chamber
 
Sorcerer Panel: bison-man woman composite