Directory of Palaeolithic Resources

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• Cave of Lascaux

  http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/
  Information and a virtual tour of the cave from the French Ministry of Culture.

• Chauvet Through the Eyes of a Sculptor

  http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/
  Sculptor John Robinson was invited to give an artist's view of the prehistoric art of the Cave of Chauvet Pont d'Arcby. The Bradshaw Foundation hosts his illustrated commentary.

• Cosquer Cave

  http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/archeosm/en/fr-cosqu1.htm
  The French Ministry of Culture describes a Paleolithic art gallery in a cave that can be accessed only through a 175-metre tunnel beneath sea level. Photographs of the animal drawings and hand stencils that decorate it.

• First Human Creations

  http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis/prerm4.htm
  A gallery of rock art from the caves at Lascaux in France.

• Paleolithic Art Magazine

  http://www.paleolithicartmagazine.org/
  Promotes acknowledgment and interpretation of paleolithic art everywhere in the world, and of the origins of Man. In English and Italian.

• Paleolithic Art of the Pyrenees

  http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/app/eng/artprepy.htm
  A gallery of artwork from the Magdalenian cultural horizon from the French Ministry of Culture.

• Signs of Consciousness : Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics

  http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/signcon.html
  by J. A. Cheyne : from Paleo-Psychology

• The Cave of Chauvet Pont-D'Arc

  http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/
  Decorated Paleolithic cave in the Ardèche region of France. The Ministry of Culture describes its discovery, authentication and preservation. The context and research. Virtual tour.

• The Dawn of Prehistoric Rock Art

  http://www.jqjacobs.net/rock_art/dawn.html
  An article by James Q. Jacobs summarizing the earliest known rock art, with a focus on recently discovered painted caves in Paleolithic Europe, Grotto Cosquer and Grotto Chauvet.

• Women in Prehistory: The Venus of Willendorf

  http://arthistoryresources.net/willendorf/willendorfdiscovery.html
  Illustrated essay by Christopher Witcombe of Sweet Briar College on this famous figure and the history of its discovery, with bibliography.

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