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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2015, 02:43 PM Apr 2015

Ancient art: French produce replica of stunning cave paintings

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President Francois Hollande toured the site on Friday - a copy of the closely-guarded Grotte Chauvet in the Ardeche region of southern France.

The original is closed to the public. The copy, at nearby Vallon-Pont d'Arc, is expected to attract many tourists.

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Ancient art: French produce replica of stunning cave paintings (Original Post) shenmue Apr 2015 OP

So beautiful! The ultimate outsider art. AlbertCat Apr 2015 #1

I'm glad they've done this Warpy Apr 2015 #2

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

1. So beautiful! The ultimate outsider art.

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:09 PM

Apr 2015

Here's another take on the same article.

http://news.yahoo.com/france-recreates-prehistoric-paintings-disputed-cave-134333801.html

Warpy

(111,352 posts)

2. I'm glad they've done this

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:10 PM

Apr 2015

The paintings are so old that they're likely to have been done by Neanderthals, since the bulk of the migration of Cro-Magnon types didn't occur for another 100,000 years and some of the drawings have been dated to 150,000 years old.

It's another nail in the coffin of the notion that Neanderthals were tiny brained oafs with limited speech and no discernible culture.

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