Discovered in December 1994 and inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2014, the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave is a masterpiece of prehistoric art. Far more than just a decorated cave, it boasts an exceptional state of preservation, breathtaking underground landscapes, and drawings (depicting lions, cave bears, mammoths, horses, bison, and more) in red, black, and engraved forms of unparalleled magnificence, making it a treasure of humanity. This discovery has revolutionized perspectives on Paleolithic art research. The cave gradually reveals its secrets, with animal and human traces and footprints, and datings that push back the origins of these complex graphic representations and the rituals that accompanied them far into our past.<\/p>\n
This book offers a visual tour of the oldest adorned cave on the Eurasian continent, showcasing the earliest images created by humanity 38,000 years ago, by the species that now populates the planet: Homo sapiens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Featured on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave is a masterpiece of prehistoric art. This book is a unique visual tour of the oldest adorned cave on the Eurasian continent, showcasing the earliest images created by humanity 38,000 years ago.
7 Foreword
\nIsabelle Massebeuf
\nPresident of the SMERGC
\n9 Preamble
\nCarole Fritz
\n11 Introduction
\nAn Intriguing “Pre-History” of Art
\n11 An Exceptional Discovery
\n16 The Research Team
\n18 The Conservation of Decorated Caves
\nGeneviève Pinçon and Marie-Blanche Potte
\nWHAT IS PREHISTORIC ART?
\n24 Time Frame
\n26 Climate
\n27 Neanderthal and Homo sapiens
\n31 Paleolithic Art
\nIN THE HEART OF CHAUVET CAVE
\n47 Humans and Animals
\n47 The Animal Presence
\n48 Wolves | Philippe Fosse
\n52 Bears | Philippe Fosse
\n61 The Human Presence
\n61 The Remains of Human Activities
\n61 Manipulating Bones
\n65 Manipulating Rocks
\n67 Fire and Light
\n71 Other Remains
\n73 The Dynamics of Human and Animal Presence
\n74 Establishing a Chronology and Dating the Art
\nHélène Valladas
\n77 A Tour of the Cave
\n80 The Prehistoric Entrance and its Evolution Over Time
\nJean-Jacques Delannoy
\n84 Near the Prehistoric Entrance, Before the Sill
\n84 The Brunel Chamber
\n94 The Chamber of the Bear Hollows and the Cactus Gallery
\n106 The Red Panels Gallery
\n112 In the Deep Chambers and Galleries
\n112 The Hillaire Chamber
\n132 The Skull Chamber
\n139 The Megaloceros Gallery
\n145 The End Chamber
\n159 The Sacristy Gallery
\n164 Understanding the Art of Chauvet Cave
\n166 From Floors to Ceilings. 3D Contributions to Research
\nThomas Sagory
\n170 The Bestiary of Chauvet Cave
\n177 From the Materials to the Artistic Gesture
\n177 White Drawings
\n179 Red Drawings
\n183 Black Drawings
\n188 From Artistic Gesture to Interpretation
\n192 The Panel of the Lions: a History\/Story, a Myth
\nConclusion
\n194 Chauvet Cave, Humanity’s First Art
\n196 A Chronological Approach to Art that Must Change
\n198 A Different Vision of Our Relationships
\nwith the Animal World
\n200 Chauvet 2: Between Research and Public Engagement
\nGilles Tosello and Valérie Moles
\nAnnexes
\n206 Bibliography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48621","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-carole-fritz","8":"publisher-citadelles-mazenod","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n