Chauvet Cave, France, Spectacular Prehistoric Art - 32,000 Years Ago!

The cave paintings adorning the walls of Chauvet Cave in France are among the oldest and most beautiful figurative art in human history. The painters were from the Aurignacian period (humans from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago.)

Our ancestors from the “Paleolithic” period, also called the Old Stone Age, painted these images of various animals about 32,000 years ago, that seem to gallop, crawl, and frolic through the cave’s chambers!!

These paintings are from the “Chauvet Cave”, located in the Pont-d'Arc Valley of Ardèche, France.

The Chauvet Cave was discovered by three local explorers in December, 1994 in Southern France.

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