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Return to the Chauvet Cave Excavating the Birthplace of Art:
The First Full Report
by Dr Jean Clottes ISBN 0-500-51119-5
Thames & Hudson
A wonderful new book by Dr Jean Clottes on the Chauvet Cave, has been published in English, featuring 209 illustrations, 208 in colour.
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The discovery of the Chauvet Cave in December 1994 by speleologists Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel and Christian Hillaire was a remarkable event. The incredible age of the paintings, which dated back 35,000 years, and their exceptionally high quality were the source of both astonishment and admiration, and the images of mammoths, rhinoceroses, lions, bears, horses and bison have since been seen all around the world.
Return to the Chauvet Cave by Dr Jean Clottes
Several years ago, a team of specialists from many different disciplines, led by Dr Jean Clottes, began the first detailed scientific study of the cave. This collaborative project has been amazingly fruitful and the cave has slowly revealed many of the secrets of its origins: its dating, the traces left by animals and humans, the artistic techniques that were used, and the themes of the paintings and engravings. New light has also been cast on this unique art by art historians and ethnologists.
All of these discoveries are published together here for the first time, accompanied by hundreds of colour illustrations, allowing the public to share not only this new knowledge but also the thrill and fascination of looking back into an ancient world, so many thousands of years old.
