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Rock art in France

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Mercantour National Park

national park of France

Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley

UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric decorated caves in the Vézère Valley, France

Les Combarelles

cave with prehistoric art in southwestern France

Gavrinis () is a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France. It contains the Gavrinis tomb, a Neolithic passage tomb built around 4200–4000 BC, making it one of the world's oldest surviving buildings. Stones inside the passage and chamber are covered in megalithic art. It is likened to other Neolithic passage tombs such as Barnenez in Brittany and Newgrange in Ireland.

Vallée des Merveilles

archaeological site in France

Cap Blanc rock shelter

cave with prehistoric art

The Pair-non-Pair Cave is located near the village of Prignac-et-Marcamps, Aquitaine:Gironde (33) department in France. Only discovered in 1881 it is known for remarkable prehistoric parietal engravings - petroglyphic representations of wild animals (horses, ibexes, cervidae, bovines and mammoths), "which rank among the most ancient examples of art made by prehistoric" humans, dating back to between 30,000 and 25,000 BP, the Aurignacian cultural period of the Upper Paleolithic.

Isturitz and Oxocelhaya caves

cave syitem in Lower Navarre, French Basque Country

cave painting at the Cave of the Trois-Frères, Ariège, France