Chauvet Cave

The cave paintings and rock art of Chauvet

The Chauvet Cave is located near the Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the Ardèche region of southern France. The Cave Paintings of Chauvet date to 30,000 to 32,000 years ago. In the Chauvet Cave hundreds of animal paintings have been found making Chauvet Cave one of the world's most important rock art sites.

Chauvet Cave Through the Mind of a Sculptor

Visit to the Chauvet Cave in 2001 by John Robinson

Four-year-old female Jean exclaimed when he looked at the instrument that measures the Carbon dioxide. It was unusually high at 3.2, way above the normal of 1.2. This meant that we would not be able to stay too long, but having got here, there was no way I was going to be hurried as I might never see anything as magnificent again in my whole life.

I stood and stared at the wonders before me through Jean’s new binoculars. The Lions, Rhinoceros, Horses and Bison leapt at me from the wall. What a sight! The paintings are truly magnificent. I turned to look at the Sorcerer crouching over the great black female pubic triangle. What potency, what power and what a setting.

Belted Galloway

On the wall behind the Sorcerer was the giant Bison. What an animal! I wondered about the Bison’s saddle and the black belted rhinoceros. Where these markings examples of artists licence? I can’t believe they were. I have seen Belted Galloway cattle in England and have been told how extremely strong that the particular gene is. Could the woolly rhinos have had black belts? Personally I think it is possible, as the Chauvet animals are very realistic and the artists didn’t make things up when drawing them.

It was time to leave

I was being to feel as though a band was being tightened around my head. My breathing had become laboured and I was experiencing a slight pain in my chest. It was time to leave.

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