Font-de-Gaume
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Font-de-Gaume cave
- Ancient site.native_name
- Font-de-Gaume
- Ancient site.image
- File:Font de gaume 2007 ago P8170279.JPG
- Ancient site.image_size
- 220
- Ancient site.alt
- Font-de-Gaume cave
- Ancient site.caption
- Cliff at Font-de-Gaume
- Ancient site.map_type
- France Aquitaine#France
- Ancient site.map_alt
- Font-de-Gaume cave in France
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location in France
- Ancient site.map_size
- 220
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- near Les Eyzies,
- Ancient site.region
- Dordogne, France
- Ancient site.cultures
- Magdalenian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1901,
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Denis Peyrony
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.child
- yes
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.official_name
- Font de Gaume
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Les Eyzies
- Image
- Font-de-Gaume entree.JPG
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- Commons category
- Grotte de Font-de-Gaume
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Present day
- Notable visitors
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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Font-de-Gaume is a cave near Les Eyzies in the Dordogne department of south-west France. The cave contains prehistoric polychrome cave paintings and engravings dating to the Magdalenian period. Discovered in 1901, more than 200 images have been identified in Font-de-Gaume. Along with other nearby prehistoric archeological sites, Font-de-Gaume was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 as the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Font-de-Gaume” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
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