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This program goes inside the Lascaux cave complex to examine the richest and most beautiful collection of Paleolithic cave drawings in France. Who were the artisans who rendered those arresting images, and how exactly did they do it? Different theories are presented as the cameras capture a site that never ceases to amaze and intrigue.
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This episode centers on the caves and rock shelters of the Dordogne region of France, where Alan Alda witnesses the spectacular paintings and carvings that date back some 30,000 years. Archaeologists once thought this artwork to be the first record of people with minds like our own. When this art was created, Europe had already been peopled for hundreds of thousands of years by Neanderthals. The people who painted the caves, our ancestors, were strikingly...
3) Lascaux, préhistoire de l'art: Grotte de Lascaux, Dordogne, France, (vers 18000 avant le présent)
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One of the world's most fascinating museums is by far one of the oldest. But can the paintings there really be called art? This program goes inside the Lascaux cave complex to examine the richest and most beautiful collection of Paleolithic cave drawings in France. Who were the artisans who rendered those arresting images, and how exactly did they do it? Different theories are presented as the cameras capture a site that never ceases to amaze and...
5) Cave art
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This comprehensive guide to prehistoric art explores the origins of human artistic endeavor. Clottes takes the reader on a guided tour of 85 caves and rock shelters, mostly in western Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, the Americans, and Australia, to reveal the extraordinary beauty of the works of art found within them.
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