The Chauvet cave: Unlocking France’s prehistoric past • FRANCE 24 English
This week, France in Focus heads underground to explore the “Sistine Chapel” of prehistory. Thirty years ago, three explorers discovered the Chauvet cave, a site in southeastern France that was cut off from the world for thousands of years. Inside, paintings and engravings dating back 36,000 years decorate the walls. The site is sealed off to the general public, but each year a team of scientists heads inside to try to work out what life was like at the time. FRANCE 24’s Jon Walsh and Joanna Cockerell report.
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23 comments
Wow!!!
Beautiful. May we always remember where we came from and that we are children of nature, that is to be preserved.
True blast from the past
The Original Master's from France.
What a thrill.
Well done.
Awesome
Animals were their obsession.
0:28 cut to father teds "I DONT BELIEVE IT" 😂
Dommage que vous préférez montrer les têtes de ses gens qui parlent au lieu de montrer les peintures. 🙄
Astounding.
Armed 24hr security to ensure protection would be a good thing ..
7:48 Just a shame some of us have forgotten that we are part of the same world as animals 😢
It's a most amazing place. Must have been very important to ancient people just as it is to is.
Thank you France for preserving this amazing treasure yet finding a way to allow for scientific exploration when possible and appropriate.
The claim these wonderful paintings care the oldest figurative drawings ever is a common and euro vision that is incorrect.
The Bradshaw paintings in Australia are up to 60 000 years old and are figurative, have a number of era styles and are so old the pigments have become part of the rock they are painted on.
Done by early Australian inhabitants. In fact the current Australian Aboriginals say they were there when they arrived.
It is estimated there are up to one million Bradshaw paintings.
Shamanic
Ill bet you train all yer women. Amiright?🙄
thank you
Someone's ancient sketchpad.
Thank God it's in France. I believe Spain also takes care of their precious cave art. Germany recovers spiritual images like the Man-Lion. Spain puts solid roofs over megaliths, and keeps the sorroundings as archelogical parks. In England . . .
Ps no soot. No soot.
Anyone interested in more information should watch the documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
Great video, thank you. The "face" looks more like a bear than human, at least to me. 🙂
CO2 from people breathing it out when they go in perhaps. No masks, use of lights, no antiseptic washdown before entry…not that strict?
Some people have learned from Cairo Egypt,,….others have ruined what this will not….tnx,,,beautiful example…,,leave alone for future children to admire,learn from,,,,,true peace,,..land o' lakes,wi,usa.❤
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