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World Heritage places tagged “earliest art” in France · Mysteria

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🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Chauvet Cave

Aurignacian, Upper Paleolithic (~37,000–33,000 BCE) · Aurignacian hunter-gatherer

Sealed Aurignacian cave above the Ardèche gorge containing the earliest known figurative art, with over 430 animal representations including woolly rhinoceros, cave lions, panthers and megaloceros…