The Chauvet Cave is unique because it contains a vast array and unique collection of cave paintings dated up to 32,000 years old which makes them the oldest cave paintings in the world.
Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
chauvet cave paintings
The cave at Chauvet is now open to the public
You can find prehistoric paintings in Chauvet Cave and Lascaux Cave in France.
Chauvet cave paintings.
Chauvet cave paintings.
In Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, the local town, they have created a museum which includes film showing the inside of the Chauvet Cave but also some recreations of the cave.
30,000 years
Chauvet Cave
The Venus of Willendorf is a figurine made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE. The cave paintings of Lascaux are 17,000 years BP or before present time.
The Chauvet Cave paintings were created by cavemen from the Upper Paleolithic period. They were discovered on December 18, 1994 and is considered on of the most significant prehistoric art sites.