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Grotte De Rouffignac (France)

Description: Address: 24580 Rouffignac Saint Cernin / France / Telephone: 05 53 05 41 71 / Explore more than 8 kilometers of ... more

Grotte De Rouffignac (France) ... galleries of prehistoric art in impressive caves that date back 130 centuries by electric train.

Newest Review: ... The overwhelming imagery is animals - reindeer, bison, rhinos, mammoths, aurochs, bears. These beasts fed them, provided clothes, grease and oil for lamps, bones for tools. Also common, but not so easily explained, are geometric shapes called "tectiforms" - a house-shaped outline with a v-shaped pitched roof. Tribal markings, signatures? Thanks to carbon dating of material found ... more

... above and in front of the art, it can be dated fairly accurately. Given scientists' delight in taxonomy, the era is divided into sub-cultures, each named after a "type-site" many of which are in and around Les Eyzies. So the earliest Mousterian...more

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Grotte De Rouffignac (France): A load of old bulls? (2094 words)
by - written on 09/05/08 (Very useful, 166 readings)
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Can I interest you ladies and gentlemen in prehistoric cave art? Not a patronising question, but one addressed to myself. Last summer we spent a couple of weeks in Les Eyzies in the Dordogne and visited seven world-class sites of palaeolithic paintings, engravings and sculpture. How to review these? An overview? Too much of a list. A group of two or three similar sites - ditto. One site, but which? Finally I decided on this site which is distinguished in the extent of the art on display, the visitor experience and has, unusually, a whiff of controversy. So, if I fail to interest you in the art, you can cut to the story at the end. In the immediate ... Read the complete review

Today I will draw a mammoth (912 words)
by - written on 11/01/08 (Very useful, 211 readings)
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The Dordogne region in France is famous for its cave systems and these can broadly be split into two distinct camps, some are worth visiting for the spectacular rock formations to be seen whilst others are famous for their cave paintings that stretch back to prehistoric times. I have already reviewed our visit to the spectacular Grotte de Padirac which boasts some spectacular rock formations whilst this review is about the Grotte De Rouffignac which is a very family friendly location to visit if you want to see lots of cave paintings. For our holiday we had based ourselves in Sarlat and it was about a 60 minute drive to Rouffignac through some lovely ... Read the complete review