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Les Combarettes, Pech-Merle caves
How moving it was to hold up one’s hand, without actually touching, of course, to the hand of a prehistoric artist, probably the hand that created some of the art in this cave!
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Les Combarelles, Pech-Merle caves
The next two days, on this south of France journey, we ventured into two more natural caves that had been open to the air for thousands of years. Like Font-de-Gaume, the caves were preserved as muc…
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December 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Chauvet, 200th post!
This is my 200th blog post. Thanks so much for coming along! It’s been a labor of love.
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Chauvet, 200th post!
Chauvet-Pont d’Arc in Ardèche, France, an enormous, stunning, prehistoric painted cave, is closed for preservation. Its replica, called Chauvet 2, opened to the public in 2015. The original cave is…
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January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM