Les Combarelles

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A long narrow cave just outside Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, southwest France, where thousands of superimposed engravings from the late Aurignacian through the middle Magdalenian periods were discovered. The engravings are dominated by horses, bison, bear, reindeer, mammoth, and andropomorphs. They are assigned to the mid-Magdalenian, c 14,000-12,000 BC. The number of engravings suggests that the cave long served as the center of a hunting cult. Scholars rank Les Combarelles as one of the finest products of the Ice Age.

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A narrow tortuous cave just outside Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, southwest France, where a large series of engravings of Palaeolithic animals was discovered in 1901. Breuil regarded this cave as one of the ‘six giants’ of cave art.

The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied

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