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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%87%D9%81_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88" title="كهف لاسكو – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كهف لاسكو" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasko_ma%C4%9Faras%C4%B1" title="Lasko mağarası – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Lasko mağarası" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Пячора Ласко – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Пячора Ласко" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Ласко – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ласко" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C4%87ina_Lascaux" title="Pećina Lascaux – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Pećina Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mougev_Las_Caus" title="Mougev Las Caus – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Mougev Las Caus" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coves_de_Lascaux" title="Coves de Lascaux – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Coves de Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_(%C3%A7%C4%95%D1%80_%D1%85%C4%83%D0%B2%C4%83%D0%BB%C4%95)" title="Ласко (çĕр хăвăлĕ) – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ласко (çĕр хăвăлĕ)" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux-hulerne" title="Lascaux-hulerne – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Lascaux-hulerne" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6hle_von_Lascaux" title="Höhle von Lascaux – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Höhle von Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%9B%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BA%CF%8E" title="Σπήλαιο Λασκώ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σπήλαιο Λασκώ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_Lascaux" title="Cueva de Lascaux – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Cueva de Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groto_Lascaux" title="Groto Lascaux – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Groto Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88" title="لاسکو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="لاسکو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotte_de_Lascaux" title="Grotte de Lascaux – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Grotte de Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotten_fan_Lascaux" title="Grotten fan Lascaux – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Grotten fan Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cova_de_Lascaux" title="Cova de Lascaux – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Cova de Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EC%8A%A4%EC%BD%94_%EB%8F%99%EA%B5%B4" title="라스코 동굴 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="라스코 동굴" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%AF%D5%B8_%D6%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B1%D5%A1%D5%BE" title="Լասկո քարանձավ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Լասկո քարանձավ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_Lascaux" title="Gua Lascaux – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Gua Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotte_di_Lascaux" title="Grotte di Lascaux – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Grotte di Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%AA_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%95" title="מערת לאסקו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מערת לאסקו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A6%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94" title="ლასკოს მღვიმე – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ლასკოს მღვიმე" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelunca_Lascaux" title="Spelunca Lascaux – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Spelunca Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasko" title="Lasko – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Lasko" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasko_urvai" title="Lasko urvai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Lasko urvai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux-i_barlang" title="Lascaux-i barlang – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Lascaux-i barlang" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_(%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="Ласко (пештера) – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Ласко (пештера)" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B" title="लास्को – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="लास्को" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88" title="لاسكو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="لاسكو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotten_van_Lascaux" title="Grotten van Lascaux – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Grotten van Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E6%B4%9E%E7%AA%9F" title="ラスコー洞窟 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ラスコー洞窟" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux" title="Lascaux – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Lascaux" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk 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navigation-not-searchable">For Lascaux in the Corrèze department, see <a href="/wiki/Lascaux,_Corr%C3%A8ze" title="Lascaux, Corrèze">Lascaux, Corrèze</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title category" style="font-size:125%;">Lascaux</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="padding:0.2em;background:#87CEEB;font-size:100%;"><a href="/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="UNESCO World Heritage Site"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: #000; text-decoration: inherit;">UNESCO World Heritage Site</span></a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-top:1px #aaa solid;padding-top:0.4em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux_painting.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Lascaux_painting.jpg/250px-Lascaux_painting.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Lascaux_painting.jpg/330px-Lascaux_painting.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Lascaux_painting.jpg/500px-Lascaux_painting.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="472" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Depiction of aurochs, horses and deer</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Sites_by_country" title="World Heritage Sites by country">Location</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Montignac,_Dordogne" class="mw-redirect" title="Montignac, Dordogne">Montignac</a>, France</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Sites_and_Decorated_Caves_of_the_V%C3%A9z%C3%A8re_Valley" title="Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley">Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site#Selection_criteria" title="World Heritage Site">Criteria</a></th><td class="infobox-data category">Cultural: i, iii</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Reference</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/85-011">85-011</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Inscription</th><td class="infobox-data">1979 (3rd <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Committee" title="World Heritage Committee">Session</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Area</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>34.34 ha (<span class="frac">84<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">7</span>⁄<span class="den">8</span></span> acres)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Lascaux&params=45_03_13_N_1_10_12_E_region:FR_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">45°03′13″N</span> <span class="longitude">1°10′12″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">45.05361°N 1.17000°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">45.05361; 1.17000</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="switcher-container"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night 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style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dordogne_department_relief_location_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lascaux is located in Dordogne"><img alt="Lascaux is located in Dordogne" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Dordogne_department_relief_location_map.jpg/250px-Dordogne_department_relief_location_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Dordogne_department_relief_location_map.jpg/500px-Dordogne_department_relief_location_map.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1748" data-file-height="1835" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:47.32%;left:78%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Lascaux"><img alt="Lascaux" 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class="mw-file-description" title="Lascaux is located in France"><img alt="Lascaux is located in France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/France_relief_location_map.jpg/250px-France_relief_location_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/France_relief_location_map.jpg/375px-France_relief_location_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/France_relief_location_map.jpg/500px-France_relief_location_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1922" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:61.394%;left:44.114%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Lascaux"><img alt="Lascaux" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Lascaux (France)</div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of France</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: #e7dcc3;">Lascaux</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 270px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="270" data-height="200" data-zoom="14" data-lat="45.053611111111" data-lon="1.17" data-overlays="["_b6635358a5262ddcc51bd9a9990528c5c256c5a4"]" href="/wiki/Special:Map/14/45.053611111111/1.17/en"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,14,45.053611111111,1.17,270x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Lascaux&revid=1284326170&groups=_b6635358a5262ddcc51bd9a9990528c5c256c5a4" width="270" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,14,45.053611111111,1.17,270x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Lascaux&revid=1284326170&groups=_b6635358a5262ddcc51bd9a9990528c5c256c5a4 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Lascaux&params=45_03_13_N_1_10_12_E_region:FR_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">45°03′13″N</span> <span class="longitude">1°10′12″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">45.05361°N 1.17000°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">45.05361; 1.17000</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lascaux</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">English: </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">la-<span style="font-size:90%">SKOH</span></i></a>,<sup id="cite_ref-collins_american_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-collins_american-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991" /><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small"><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a> also </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">lah-<span style="font-size:90%">SKOH</span></i></a>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Grotte de Lascaux</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[ɡʁɔt<span class="wrap"> </span>də<span class="wrap"> </span>lasko]</a></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-collins_english_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-collins_english-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of <a href="/wiki/Montignac,_Dordogne" class="mw-redirect" title="Montignac, Dordogne">Montignac</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Departments_of_France" title="Departments of France">department</a> of <a href="/wiki/Dordogne" title="Dordogne">Dordogne</a> in southwestern France. Over 600 <a href="/wiki/Parietal_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Parietal art">parietal</a> <a href="/wiki/Cave_painting" title="Cave painting">wall paintings</a> cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical local contemporary fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic" title="Upper Paleolithic">Upper Paleolithic</a> in the area. They are the combined effort of many generations. With continued debate, the age of the paintings is now usually estimated at around 17,000 to 22,000 years (early <a href="/wiki/Magdalenian" title="Magdalenian">Magdalenian</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-visu_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-visu-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of the outstanding prehistoric art in the cave, Lascaux was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_List" class="mw-redirect" title="World Heritage List">World Heritage List</a> in 1979, as an element of the <i><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Sites_and_Decorated_Caves_of_the_V%C3%A9z%C3%A8re_Valley" title="Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley">Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-worldherit_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worldherit-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The original caves have been closed to the public since 1963, as their condition was quickly deteriorating, but there are now a number of replicas. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_since_rediscovery">History since rediscovery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History since rediscovery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux_entrance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Lascaux_entrance.jpg/250px-Lascaux_entrance.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Lascaux_entrance.jpg/330px-Lascaux_entrance.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1552" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Modern entrance to the Lascaux cave</figcaption></figure> <p>On 12 September 1940, the entrance to the Lascaux Cave was discovered on the <a href="/wiki/House_of_La_Rochefoucauld" title="House of La Rochefoucauld">La Rochefoucauld-Montbel</a> lands by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, investigated a hole left by an uprooted tree (Ravidat would embellish the story in later retellings, saying Robot had fallen into the cave.)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dailytelegraph.com.au_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dailytelegraph.com.au-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ravidat returned to the scene with three friends, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas. They entered the cave through a 15-metre-deep (50-foot) shaft that they believed might be a legendary secret passage to the nearby Lascaux Manor.<sup id="cite_ref-dailytelegraph.com.au_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dailytelegraph.com.au-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The teenagers discovered that the cave walls were covered with depictions of animals.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_ravidat_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes_ravidat-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cave_art_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cave_art-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Galleries that suggest continuity, context or simply represent a cavern were given names. Those include the <i>Hall of the Bulls</i>, the <i>Passageway</i>, the <i>Shaft</i>, the <i>Nave</i>, the <i>Apse</i>, and the <i>Chamber of Felines</i>. They returned along with the <a href="/wiki/Henri_Breuil" title="Henri Breuil">Abbé Henri Breuil</a> on 21 September 1940; Breuil would make many sketches of the cave, some of which are used as study material today due to the extreme degradation of many of the paintings. Breuil was accompanied by <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Peyrony" class="extiw" title="fr:Denis Peyrony">fr:Denis Peyrony</a>, curator of the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Prehistory_(France)" title="National Museum of Prehistory (France)">National Museum of Prehistory</a> at <a href="/wiki/Les_Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil" title="Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil">Les Eyzies</a>, Jean Bouyssonie and Dr Cheynier. </p><p>The cave complex was opened to the public on 14 July 1948, and initial archaeological investigations began a year later, focusing on the Shaft. By 1955, <a href="/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide">carbon dioxide</a>, heat, humidity, and other contaminants produced by 1,200 visitors per day had visibly damaged the paintings. As air condition deteriorated, fungi and <a href="/wiki/Lichen" title="Lichen">lichen</a> increasingly infested the walls. Consequently, the cave was closed to the public in 1963, the paintings were restored to their original state, and a monitoring system on a daily basis was introduced. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Replicas">Replicas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Replicas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux-IV_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Lascaux-IV_01.jpg/250px-Lascaux-IV_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Lascaux-IV_01.jpg/330px-Lascaux-IV_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Lascaux-IV_01.jpg/500px-Lascaux-IV_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Part of Lascaux IV</figcaption></figure> <p>Conservation problems in the original cave have made the creation of replicas more important. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Lascaux_II">Lascaux II</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lascaux II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Lascaux II</i>, an exact copy of the <i>Great Hall of the Bulls</i> and the <i>Painted Gallery</i> was displayed at the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Palais" title="Grand Palais">Grand Palais</a> in Paris, before being displayed from 1983 in the cave's vicinity (about 200 m or 660 ft away from the original cave), a compromise and attempt to present an impression of the paintings' scale and composition for the public without harming the originals.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cave_art_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cave_art-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A full range of Lascaux's parietal art is presented a few kilometres from the site at the <i>Centre of Prehistoric Art</i>, Le Parc du Thot, where there are also live animals representing <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_animals" class="mw-redirect" title="Prehistoric animals">ice-age fauna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The paintings for this site were duplicated with the same type of materials (such as <a href="/wiki/Iron_oxide" title="Iron oxide">iron oxide</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charcoal" title="Charcoal">charcoal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ochre" title="Ochre">ochre</a>) which were believed to be used 19,000 years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-dailytelegraph.com.au_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dailytelegraph.com.au-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other <a href="/wiki/Facsimile" title="Facsimile">facsimiles</a> of Lascaux have also been produced over the years. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Lascaux_III">Lascaux III</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lascaux III"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Lascaux III</i> is a series of five exact reproductions of the cave art (the Nave and Shaft) that, since 2012, have been exhibited in various countries, allowing knowledge of Lascaux to be shared widely, far away from the original. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Lascaux_IV">Lascaux IV</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lascaux IV"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Lascaux IV</i> is the latest replica, in real scale, of the integrality of the cave of Lascaux. Situated on the same hill overlooking <a href="/wiki/Montignac,_Dordogne" class="mw-redirect" title="Montignac, Dordogne">Montignac</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 400 m from the original site, it is part of the International Centre for Parietal Art (Centre International de l'Art Pariétal) that was inaugurated in December 2016. The museum, built by <a href="/wiki/Sn%C3%B8hetta_(company)" title="Snøhetta (company)">Snøhetta</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> integrates digital technology, workshops and films into adjacent display rooms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geographic_setting">Geographic setting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Geographic setting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux_II.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Lascaux_II.jpg/250px-Lascaux_II.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Lascaux_II.jpg/330px-Lascaux_II.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Lascaux_II.jpg/500px-Lascaux_II.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2748" data-file-height="1827" /></a><figcaption>Reproduction of Lascaux artwork in Lascaux II</figcaption></figure> <p>In its sedimentary composition, the <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A9z%C3%A8re" title="Vézère">Vézère</a> drainage basin covers one fourth of the <i>département</i> of the Dordogne, the northernmost region of the <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9rigord" title="Périgord">Black Périgord</a>. Before joining the <a href="/wiki/Dordogne_(river)" title="Dordogne (river)">Dordogne River</a> near Limeuil, the Vézère flows in a south-westerly direction. At its centre point, the river's course is marked by a series of meanders flanked by high limestone cliffs that determine the landscape. Upstream from this steep-sloped relief, near <a href="/wiki/Montignac,_Dordogne" class="mw-redirect" title="Montignac, Dordogne">Montignac</a> and in the vicinity of Lascaux, the contours of the land soften considerably; the valley floor widens, and the banks of the river lose their steepness. </p><p>The Lascaux valley is located some distance from the major concentrations of decorated caves and inhabited sites, most of which were discovered further downstream.<sup id="cite_ref-nechvatal_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nechvatal-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the environs of the village of Eyzies-de-Tayac Sireuil, there are no fewer than 37 decorated caves and shelters, as well as an even greater number of habitation sites from the Upper Paleolithic, located in the open, beneath a sheltering overhang, or at the entrance to one of the area's <a href="/wiki/Karst" title="Karst">karst</a> cavities. This is the highest concentration in Europe. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Images">Images</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Images"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux,_Megaloceros.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Lascaux%2C_Megaloceros.jpg/250px-Lascaux%2C_Megaloceros.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Lascaux%2C_Megaloceros.jpg/330px-Lascaux%2C_Megaloceros.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Lascaux%2C_Megaloceros.jpg/500px-Lascaux%2C_Megaloceros.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1775" data-file-height="1744" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Megaloceros" title="Megaloceros">Megaloceros</a></i> with line of dots</figcaption></figure> <p>The cave contains nearly 6,000 figures, which can be grouped into three main categories: animals, human figures, and abstract signs. The paintings contain no images of the surrounding landscape or the vegetation of the time.<sup id="cite_ref-nechvatal_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nechvatal-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the major images have been painted onto the walls using red, yellow, and black colours from a complex multiplicity of mineral pigments<sup id="cite_ref-Dickson_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dickson-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 110">: 110 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chalmin_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chalmin-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including iron compounds such as iron oxide (<a href="/wiki/Ochre" title="Ochre">ochre</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-Rapp_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rapp-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 204">: 204 </span></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hematite" title="Hematite">hematite</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Goethite" title="Goethite">goethite</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Chalmin_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chalmin-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ESAA_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ESAA-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as manganese-containing pigments.<sup id="cite_ref-Chalmin_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chalmin-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rapp_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rapp-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 208">: 208 </span></sup> Charcoal may also have been used<sup id="cite_ref-Rapp_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rapp-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 199">: 199 </span></sup> but seemingly to a sparing extent.<sup id="cite_ref-Dickson_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dickson-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On some of the cave walls, the colour may have been applied as a <a href="/wiki/Suspension_(chemistry)" title="Suspension (chemistry)">suspension</a> of pigment in either animal fat or calcium-rich cave <a href="/wiki/Groundwater" title="Groundwater">groundwater</a> or <a href="/wiki/Clay" title="Clay">clay</a>, making <a href="/wiki/Paint" title="Paint">paint</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dickson_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dickson-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that was swabbed or blotted on, rather than applied by brush.<sup id="cite_ref-ESAA_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ESAA-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In other areas, the colour was applied by spraying the pigments by blowing the mixture through a tube.<sup id="cite_ref-ESAA_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ESAA-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Where the rock surface is softer, some designs have been incised into the stone. Many images are too faint to discern, and others have deteriorated entirely. </p><p>Over 900 can be identified as animals, and 605 of these have been precisely identified. Out of these images, there are 364 paintings of <a href="/wiki/Equus_(genus)" title="Equus (genus)">equines</a> as well as 90 paintings of <a href="/wiki/Deer" title="Deer">stags</a>. Also represented are cattle and bison, each representing 4 to 5% of the images. A smattering of other images includes seven felines, a bird, a bear, a rhinoceros. In the deepest reaches of the cave, at the bottom of a 9m-deep well, the only human figure of the cave was depicted, in a strikingly different style. There are no images of reindeer, even though that was the principal source of food for the artists, and no image of fish either.<sup id="cite_ref-curtis_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-curtis-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Geometric images have also been found on the walls. </p><p>The most famous section of the cave is The Hall of the Bulls where bulls, equines, <a href="/wiki/Aurochs" title="Aurochs">aurochs</a>, stags, and the only bear in the cave are depicted. The four black bulls, or aurochs, are the dominant figures among the 36 animals represented here. One of the bulls is 5.2 metres (17 ft 1 in) long, the largest animal discovered so far in cave art. Additionally, the bulls appear to be in motion.<sup id="cite_ref-curtis_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-curtis-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A painting referred to as "The Crossed Bison", found in the chamber called the Nave, is often submitted as an example of the skill of the Paleolithic cave painters. The crossed hind legs create the illusion that one leg is closer to the viewer than the other. This visual depth in the scene, enhanced by the three dimensional structure of the painted rock, demonstrates a highly sophisticated form of perspective which disappeared with the Magdalenian culture and would not re-emerge until the Italian Renaissance.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As famously quoted by Picasso upon encountering paleolithic art: "we have learned nothing in twelve thousand years". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parietal_representation">Parietal representation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Parietal representation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Hall of the Bulls presents the most spectacular composition of Lascaux. Its calcite walls are not suitable for engraving, so it is only decorated with paintings, often of impressive dimensions: some are up to five metres long. </p><p>Two rows of aurochs face each other, two on one side and three on the other. The two aurochs on the north side are accompanied by about ten <a href="/wiki/Horse" title="Horse">horses</a> and a large enigmatic animal, with two straight lines on its forehead that earned it the nickname "unicorn". On the south side, three large aurochs are next to three smaller ones, painted red, as well as six small deer and the only bear in the cave, superimposed on the belly of an aurochs and difficult to read. </p><p>The Axial Diverticulum is also decorated with cattle and horses accompanied by deer and <a href="/wiki/Ibex" title="Ibex">ibex</a>. A drawing of a fleeing horse was brushed with manganese pencil 2.50 metres above the ground. Some animals are painted on the ceiling and seem to roll from one wall to the other. These representations, which required the use of scaffolding, are intertwined with many signs (sticks, dots, and rectangular signs). </p><p>The Passage has a highly degraded decoration, notably through air circulation. </p><p>The Nave has four groups of figures: the Empreinte panel, the Black Cow panel, the Deer swimming panel, and the Crossed Buffalo panel. These works are accompanied by many enigmatic geometric signs, including coloured checkers that H. Breuil called "coats of arms". </p><p>The Feline Diverticulum owes its name to a group of felines, one of which seems to urinate to mark its territory. Very difficult to access, one can see there engravings of wild animals of a rather naive style. There are also other animals associated with signs, including a representation of a horse seen from the front, exceptional in Paleolithic art where animals are generally represented in profiles or from a "twisted perspective". </p><p>The Apse contains more than a thousand engravings, some of which are superimposed on paintings, corresponding to animals and signs. There is the only reindeer represented in Lascaux. </p><p>The Well presents the most enigmatic scene of Lascaux: an <a href="/wiki/Ithyphallic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ithyphallic">ithyphallic</a> man with a bird's head seems to lie on the ground, perhaps knocked down by a buffalo gutted by a spear; at his side is represented an elongated object surmounted by a bird, on the left a rhinoceros moves away. Various interpretations of what is represented have been offered.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A horse is also present on the opposite wall. Two groups of signs are to be noted in this composition: </p> <ul><li>between man and rhinos, three pairs of digitized punctuation marks found at the bottom of the Cat Diverticulum, in the most remote part of the cave;</li> <li>under man and bison, a complex barbed sign that can be found almost identically on other walls of the cave, and also on paddle points and on the sandstone lamp found nearby.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interpretation">Interpretation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Interpretation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The interpretation of <a href="/wiki/Art_of_the_Upper_Paleolithic" title="Art of the Upper Paleolithic">Palaeolithic Art</a> is problematic, as it can be influenced by our own prejudices and beliefs. Some anthropologists and art historians theorize the paintings could be an account of past hunting success, or could represent a mystical ritual in order to improve future hunting endeavors. The latter theory is supported by the overlapping images of one group of animals in the same cave location as another group of animals, suggesting that one area of the cave was more successful for predicting a plentiful hunting excursion.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Applying the iconographic method of analysis to the Lascaux paintings (studying position, direction and size of the figures; organization of the composition; painting technique; distribution of the color planes; research of the image center), Thérèse Guiot-Houdart attempted to comprehend the symbolic function of the animals, to identify the theme of each image and finally to reconstitute the canvas of the myth illustrated on the rock walls.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="her conclusions? (December 2012)">further explanation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Lascaux2.jpg/250px-Lascaux2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Lascaux2.jpg/330px-Lascaux2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Lascaux2.jpg/500px-Lascaux2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="598" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Cave painting of a <a href="/wiki/Dun_gene" title="Dun gene">dun</a> horse (<a href="/wiki/Equus_(genus)" title="Equus (genus)">equine</a>) at Lascaux</figcaption></figure> <p>Julien d'Huy and Jean-Loïc Le Quellec showed that certain angular or barbed signs of Lascaux may be analysed as "weapon" or "wounds". These signs affect dangerous animals – big cats, aurochs, and bison – more than others and may be explained by a fear of the animation of the image.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another finding supports the hypothesis of half-alive images. At Lascaux, bison, aurochs, and ibex are not represented side by side. Conversely, one can note a bison-horses-lions system and an aurochs-horses-deer-bears system, these animals being frequently associated.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such a distribution may show the relationship between the species pictured and their environmental conditions. Aurochs and bison fight one against the other, and horses and deer are very social with other animals. Bison and lions live in open plains areas; aurochs, deer and bears are associated with forests and marshes; ibex habitat is rocky areas, and horses are highly adaptive for all these areas. The Lascaux paintings' disposition may be explained by a belief in the real life of the pictured species, wherein the artists tried to respect their real environmental conditions.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Less known is the image area called the <i>Abside</i> (Apse), a roundish, semi-spherical chamber similar to an <a href="/wiki/Apse" title="Apse">apse</a> in a Romanesque basilica. It is approximately 4.5 metres in diameter (about 5 yards) and covered on every wall surface (including the ceiling) with thousands of entangled, overlapping, engraved drawings.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ceiling of the Apse, which ranges from 1.6 to 2.7 metres high (about 5.2 to 8.9 feet) as measured from the original floor height, is so completely decorated with such engravings that it indicates that the prehistoric people who executed them first constructed a scaffold to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-nechvatal_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nechvatal-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lascaux_01.jpg/250px-Lascaux_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lascaux_01.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="315" data-file-height="231" /></a><figcaption>The famous shaft scene of Lascaux: a man with a bird head and a bison</figcaption></figure> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/David_Lewis-Williams" title="David Lewis-Williams">David Lewis-Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Clottes" title="Jean Clottes">Jean Clottes</a> who both studied presumably similar art of the <a href="/wiki/San_people" title="San people">San people</a> of Southern Africa, this type of art is spiritual in nature relating to visions experienced during ritualistic <a href="/wiki/Trance" title="Trance">trance-dancing</a>. These trance visions are a function of the human imagination and so are independent of geographical location.<sup id="cite_ref-Mallgrave2013_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mallgrave2013-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Spivey" title="Nigel Spivey">Nigel Spivey</a>, a professor of classical art and archeology at the University of Cambridge, has further postulated in his series, <i><a href="/wiki/How_Art_Made_the_World" title="How Art Made the World">How Art Made the World</a></i>, that dot and lattice patterns overlapping the representational images of animals are very similar to hallucinations provoked by sensory-deprivation. He further postulates that the connections between culturally important animals and these hallucinations led to the invention of image-making, or the art of drawing.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Leroi-Gourhan" title="André Leroi-Gourhan">André Leroi-Gourhan</a> studied the cave from the 1960s; his observation of the associations of animals and the distribution of species within the cave led him to develop a <a href="/wiki/Structuralism" title="Structuralism">Structuralist</a> theory that posited the existence of a genuine organization of the graphic space in Palaeolithic sanctuaries. This model is based on a masculine/feminine duality – which can be particularly observed in the bison/horse and aurochs/horse pairs – identifiable in both the signs and the animal representations. He also defined an ongoing evolution through four consecutive styles, from the Aurignacian to the Late Magdalenian. Leroi-Gourhan did not publish a detailed analysis of the cave's figures. In his work Préhistoire de l'art occidental, published in 1965, he nonetheless put forward an analysis of certain signs and applied his explanatory model to the understanding of other decorated caves. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Threats">Threats</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Threats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lascaux_operations_room.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Lascaux_operations_room.jpg/250px-Lascaux_operations_room.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Lascaux_operations_room.jpg/330px-Lascaux_operations_room.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Lascaux_operations_room.jpg/500px-Lascaux_operations_room.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1552" data-file-height="2187" /></a><figcaption>The conservation room at Lascaux</figcaption></figure> <p>The opening of Lascaux Cave after World War II changed the cave environment. The exhalations of 1,200 visitors per day, presence of light, and changes in air circulation have created a number of problems. Lichens and crystals began to appear on the walls in the late 1950s, leading to closure of the caves in 1963. This led to restriction of access to the real caves to a few visitors every week, and the creation of a replica cave for visitors to Lascaux. In 2001, the authorities in charge of Lascaux changed the air conditioning system which resulted in regulation of the temperature and humidity. When the system had been established, an infestation of <i><a href="/wiki/Fusarium_solani" title="Fusarium solani">Fusarium solani</a></i>, a white <a href="/wiki/Mold_(fungus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mold (fungus)">mold</a>, began spreading rapidly across the cave ceiling and walls.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mold is considered to have been present in the cave soil and exposed by the work of tradesmen, leading to the spread of the fungus which was treated with <a href="/wiki/Quicklime" class="mw-redirect" title="Quicklime">quicklime</a>. In 2007, a new fungus, which has created grey and black blemishes, began spreading in the real cave. </p><p>As of 2008, the cave contained <a href="/wiki/Stachybotrys" title="Stachybotrys">black mold</a>. In January 2008, authorities closed the cave for three months, even to scientists and preservationists. A single individual was allowed to enter the cave for twenty minutes once a week to monitor climatic conditions. Now only a few scientific experts are allowed to work inside the cave and just for a few days a month, but the efforts to remove the mold have taken a toll, leaving dark patches and damaging the pigments on the walls.<sup id="cite_ref-washpost_debate_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washpost_debate-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009 the mold problem was pronounced stable.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011 the fungus seemed to be in retreat after the introduction of an additional, even stricter conservation program.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two research programs have been instigated at the CIAP concerning how to best treat the problem, and the cave also now possesses a climatisation system designed to reduce the introduction of bacteria. </p><p>Organized through the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture, an international symposium titled "Lascaux and Preservation Issues in Subterranean Environments" was held in Paris on 26 and 27 February 2009, under the chairmanship of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Clottes" title="Jean Clottes">Jean Clottes</a>. It brought together nearly three hundred participants from seventeen countries with the goal of confronting research and interventions conducted in Lascaux Cave since 2001 with the experiences gained in other countries in the domain of preservation in subterranean environments.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The proceedings of this symposium were published in 2011. Seventy-four specialists in fields as varied as biology, biochemistry, botany, hydrology, climatology, geology, fluid mechanics, archaeology, anthropology, restoration and conservation, from numerous countries (France, United States, Portugal, Spain, Japan, and others) contributed to this publication.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2018 <i><a href="/wiki/Ochroconis_lascauxensis" title="Ochroconis lascauxensis">Ochroconis lascauxensis</a></i>, a species of fungus of the <a href="/wiki/Ascomycota" title="Ascomycota">Ascomycota</a> phylum, was officially described and named after the place of its first emergence and isolation, the Lascaux cave. This followed on from the discovery of another closely related species <i><a href="/wiki/Ochroconis_anomala" title="Ochroconis anomala">Ochroconis anomala</a></i>, first observed inside the cave in 2000. The following year black spots began to appear among the cave paintings. No official announcement on the effect or progress of attempted treatments has ever been made.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanchez_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanchez-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The problem is ongoing, as are efforts to control the microbial and fungal growths in the cave. The fungal infection crises have led to the establishment of an International Scientific Committee for Lascaux and to rethinking how, and how much, human access should be permitted in caves containing prehistoric art.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col 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Phys.org. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195308/http://phys.org/news/2011-06-lascaux-hands-off-approach-threatened-art.html">Archived</a> from the original on 28 December 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 December</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Lascaux%27s+18%2C000-year-old+cave+art+under+threat&rft.pub=Phys.org&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2011-06-lascaux-hands-off-approach-threatened-art.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">At the <a href="/wiki/Takamatsuzuka_Tomb" title="Takamatsuzuka Tomb">Takamatsuzuka Tomb</a> in Japan, and <a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Altamira" title="Cave of Altamira">Altamira</a> in Spain, for example.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coye, N. dir. (2011), <i>Lascaux et la conservation en milieu souterrain: actes du symposium international (Paris, 26–27 fév. 2009) = <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.editions-msh.fr/livre/?GCOI=27351100548910">Lascaux and Preservation Issues in Subterranean Environments: Proceedings of the International Symposium</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121101150017/http://www.editions-msh.fr/livre/?GCOI=27351100548910">Archived</a> 1 November 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (Paris, 26 and 27 February)</i>, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 360 p. In French and English.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sanchez-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sanchez_43-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMartin-SanchezNovákováBastianAlabouvette2012" class="citation journal cs1">Martin-Sanchez, Pedro Maria; Nováková, Alena; Bastian, Fabiola; Alabouvette, Claude; Saiz-Jimenez, Cesareo (2012). "Two new species of the genus <i>Ochroconis</i>, <i>O. lascauxensis</i> and <i>O. anomala</i> isolated from black stains in Lascaux Cave, France". <i><a href="/wiki/Fungal_Biology" title="Fungal Biology">Fungal Biology</a></i>. <b>116</b> (5). <a href="/wiki/Elsevier" title="Elsevier">Elsevier</a>: <span class="nowrap">574–</span>89. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.funbio.2012.02.006">10.1016/j.funbio.2012.02.006</a>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22559918">22559918</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fungal+Biology&rft.atitle=Two+new+species+of+the+genus+Ochroconis%2C+O.+lascauxensis+and+O.+anomala+isolated+from+black+stains+in+Lascaux+Cave%2C+France&rft.volume=116&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E574-%3C%2Fspan%3E89&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2Fj.funbio.2012.02.006&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F22559918&rft.aulast=Martin-Sanchez&rft.aufirst=Pedro+Maria&rft.au=Nov%C3%A1kov%C3%A1%2C+Alena&rft.au=Bastian%2C+Fabiola&rft.au=Alabouvette%2C+Claude&rft.au=Saiz-Jimenez%2C+Cesareo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSimons,_Marlise2007" class="citation web cs1">Simons, Marlise (9 December 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/world/europe/09cave.html?_r=1&ref=world">"Fungus Once Again Threatens French Cave Paintings"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130512062844/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/world/europe/09cave.html?_r=1&ref=world">Archived</a> from the original on 12 May 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 October</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Fungus+Once+Again+Threatens+French+Cave+Paintings&rft.date=2007-12-09&rft.au=Simons%2C+Marlise&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2007%2F12%2F09%2Fworld%2Feurope%2F09cave.html%3F_r%3D1%26ref%3Dworld&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lascaux&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDubowski2010" class="citation book cs1">Dubowski, Mark (2010). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/discoveryincave0000dubo"><i>Discovery in the Cave (Children's early reader)</i></a></span>. New York: Random House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-375-85893-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-375-85893-2"><bdi>978-0-375-85893-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Discovery+in+the+Cave+%28Children%27s+early+reader%29&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-375-85893-2&rft.aulast=Dubowski&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdiscoveryincave0000dubo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCurtis2006" class="citation book cs1">Curtis, Gregory (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cavepaintersprob00curt"><i>The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists</i></a>. New York: Knopf. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4000-4348-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-4000-4348-4"><bdi>1-4000-4348-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cave+Painters%3A+Probing+the+Mysteries+of+the+World%27s+First+Artists&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Knopf&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=1-4000-4348-4&rft.aulast=Curtis&rft.aufirst=Gregory&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcavepaintersprob00curt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLewis-Williams2004" class="citation book cs1">Lewis-Williams, David (2004). <i>The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art</i>. Thames and Hudson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-500-28465-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-500-28465-2"><bdi>0-500-28465-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mind+in+the+Cave%3A+Consciousness+and+the+Origins+of+Art&rft.pub=Thames+and+Hudson&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-500-28465-2&rft.aulast=Lewis-Williams&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBataille2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Georges_Bataille" title="Georges Bataille">Bataille, Georges</a> (2005). <i>The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture</i>. New York: Zone Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-890951-55-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-890951-55-2"><bdi>1-890951-55-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cradle+of+Humanity%3A+Prehistoric+Art+and+Culture&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Zone+Books&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=1-890951-55-2&rft.aulast=Bataille&rft.aufirst=Georges&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>— (1980) <i>Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art</i>. Trans. Austryn Wainhouse. Geneva: Skira [first published, 1955].</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Nechvatal" title="Joseph Nechvatal">Joseph Nechvatal</a>, <i>Immersive Excess in the Apse of Lascaux</i>, Technonoetic Arts 3, no3. 2005</li> <li>B.et G. Delluc (dir.), <i>Le Livre du Jubilé de Lascaux 1940–1990</i>, Société historique et archéologique du Périgord, supplément au tome CXVII, 1990, 155 p., ill.</li> <li>B. et G. Delluc, 2003: <i>Lascaux retrouvé. Les recherches de l'abbé André Glory</i>, Pilote 24 édition, 368 p., ill.</li> <li>B. et G. Delluc, 2006: <i>Discovering Lascaux</i>, Sud Ouest, nouvelle édition entièrement revue et très augmentée, 80 p., ill. plans et coupe.</li> <li>B. et G. Delluc, 2008: <i>Dictionnaire de Lascaux</i>, Sud Ouest, Bordeaux. Plus de 600 entrées et illustrations. Bibliographie (450 références). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-87901-877-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-87901-877-5">978-2-87901-877-5</a>.</li> <li>B. et G. Delluc, 2010: <i>Lascaux et la guerre. Une galerie de portraits</i>, Bull. de la Soc. historique et arch. du Périgord, CXXXVI, 2e livraison, 40 p., ill., bibliographie.</li> <li>A. Glory, 2008: <i>Les recherches à Lascaux (1952–1963). Documents recueillis et présentés par B. et G. Delluc</i>, XXXIXe suppl. à Gallia-Préhistoire, CNRS, Paris.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Nechvatal" title="Joseph Nechvatal">Joseph Nechvatal</a>, 2011: <i>Immersion into Noise</i>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> Library's Scholarly Publishing Office. Ann Arbor.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRigaud1988" class="citation magazine cs1">Rigaud, Jean-Philippe (October 1988). "Art Treasures from the Ice Age: Lascaux Cave". <i><a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Geographic (magazine)">National Geographic</a></i>. Vol. 174, no. 4. pp. <span class="nowrap">482–</span>499. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0027-9358">0027-9358</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/643483454">643483454</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=National+Geographic&rft.atitle=Art+Treasures+from+the+Ice+Age%3A+Lascaux+Cave&rft.volume=174&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E482-%3C%2Fspan%3E499&rft.date=1988-10&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F643483454&rft.issn=0027-9358&rft.aulast=Rigaud&rft.aufirst=Jean-Philippe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALascaux" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External 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title="Sahelanthropus">Sahelanthropus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kenyanthropus" title="Kenyanthropus">Kenyanthropus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><i><a href="/wiki/Ardipithecus" title="Ardipithecus">Ardipithecus</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ardipithecus_kadabba" title="Ardipithecus kadabba">A. kadabba</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ardipithecus_ramidus" title="Ardipithecus ramidus">A. ramidus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus" title="Australopithecus">Australopithecus</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis" title="Australopithecus afarensis">A. afarensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus_africanus" title="Australopithecus africanus">A. africanus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus_anamensis" title="Australopithecus anamensis">A. anamensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus_bahrelghazali" title="Australopithecus bahrelghazali">A. bahrelghazali</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus_deyiremeda" title="Australopithecus deyiremeda">A. deyiremeda</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus_garhi" title="Australopithecus garhi">A. garhi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australopithecus_sediba" title="Australopithecus sediba">A. sediba</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><i><a href="/wiki/Paranthropus" title="Paranthropus">Paranthropus</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paranthropus_aethiopicus" title="Paranthropus aethiopicus">P. aethiopicus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paranthropus_boisei" title="Paranthropus boisei">P. boisei</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paranthropus_robustus" title="Paranthropus robustus">P. robustus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Homo" title="Homo">Humans and<br />proto-humans<br />(<i>Homo</i>)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Proto-humans</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_gautengensis" title="Homo gautengensis">H. gautengensis</a></i> (?)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_habilis" title="Homo habilis">H. habilis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_naledi" title="Homo naledi">H. naledi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_rudolfensis" title="Homo rudolfensis">H. rudolfensis</a></i> (?)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_erectus" title="Homo erectus">Homo erectus</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Java_Man" title="Java Man">H. e. erectus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dmanisi_hominins" title="Dmanisi hominins">H. e. georgicus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lantian_Man" title="Lantian Man">H. e. lantianensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nanjing_Man" title="Nanjing Man">H. e. nankinensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peking_Man" title="Peking Man">H. e. pekinensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Solo_Man" title="Solo Man">H. e. soloensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tautavel_Man" title="Tautavel Man">H. e. tautavelensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yuanmou_Man" title="Yuanmou Man">H. e. yuanmouensis</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Archaic_humans" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaic humans">Archaic humans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_antecessor" title="Homo antecessor">H. antecessor</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denisovan" title="Denisovan">Denisovans</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_ergaster" title="Homo ergaster">H. ergaster</a></i> (?)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_floresiensis" title="Homo floresiensis">H. floresiensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis" title="Homo heidelbergensis">H. heidelbergensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_longi" title="Homo longi">H. longi</a></i> (?)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_luzonensis" title="Homo luzonensis">H. luzonensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neanderthal" title="Neanderthal">H. neanderthalensis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_rhodesiensis" title="Homo rhodesiensis">H. rhodesiensis</a></i> (?)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">Modern humans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Homo_sapiens26" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><i><a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">Homo sapiens</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Early_modern_human" title="Early modern human"><i>H. s. sapiens</i> (archaic homo sapiens, anatomically modern humans)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jebel_Irhoud" title="Jebel Irhoud">Jebel Irhoud</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Herto_Man" title="Herto Man">H. s. idaltu</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cro-Magnon" title="Cro-Magnon">Cro-Magnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manot_1" title="Manot 1">Manot people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tam_Pa_Ling_Cave" title="Tam Pa Ling Cave">Tam Pa Ling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people" title="Red Deer Cave people">Red Deer Cave people</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Human_evolution" title="Human evolution">Ancestors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Homo_habilis" title="Homo habilis">Homo habilis</a></i> → <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_ergaster" title="Homo ergaster">Homo ergaster</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_erectus" title="Homo erectus">Homo erectus</a></i> (→ <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_antecessor" title="Homo antecessor">Homo antecessor</a></i>)<sup>?</sup> → <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis" title="Homo heidelbergensis">Homo heidelbergensis</a></i> → <i>archaic Homo sapiens</i> → <i><a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">Homo sapiens</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">Models</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General models</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_hypothesis" title="Hunting hypothesis">Hunting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gathering_hypothesis" title="Gathering hypothesis">Gathering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis" title="Endurance running hypothesis">Endurance running</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis" title="Aquatic ape hypothesis">Aquatic ape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_selection_in_humans" title="Sexual selection in humans">Sexual selection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-domestication#In_humans" title="Self-domestication">Self-domestication</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specific models</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Diet <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans#The_cooking_hypothesis" title="Control of fire by early humans">Cooking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expensive_tissue_hypothesis" title="Expensive tissue hypothesis">Expensive tissue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis#Diet" title="Aquatic ape hypothesis">Shore-based</a></li></ul></li> <li>Drugs <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drunken_monkey_hypothesis" title="Drunken monkey hypothesis">Drunken monkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_models_of_human_drug_use" title="Evolutionary models of human drug use">Evolutionary models of human drug use</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory" title="Stoned ape theory">Stoned ape theory</a></li></ul></li> <li>Behavior <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Killer_ape_theory" title="Killer ape theory">Killer ape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooperative_eye_hypothesis" title="Cooperative eye hypothesis">Cooperative eye</a></li></ul></li> <li>Life history <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis" title="Grandmother hypothesis">Grandmother</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriarch_hypothesis" title="Patriarch hypothesis">Patriarch</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics<br /></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evolution_of_bipedalism_in_humans" class="mw-redirect" title="Evolution of bipedalism in humans">Bipedalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_skeletal_changes_due_to_bipedalism" title="Human skeletal changes due to bipedalism">Skeleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muscular_evolution_in_humans" title="Muscular evolution in humans">Muscles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution_of_skin_color" class="mw-redirect" title="Evolution of skin color">Skin color</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution_of_hair" class="mw-redirect" title="Evolution of hair">Hair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_and_heat_adaptations_in_humans" title="Cold and heat adaptations in humans">Thermoregulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Origin_of_speech" title="Origin of speech">Speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Origin_of_language" title="Origin of language">Language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligence" title="Evolution of human intelligence">Intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_division_of_labour#Hypotheses_for_the_evolutionary_origins_of_SDL" title="Sexual division of labour">Gender roles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Origin_of_modern_humans" class="mw-redirect" title="Origin of modern humans">Origin of modern humans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans" title="Recent African origin of modern humans">Recent African origin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans" title="Multiregional origin of modern humans">Multiregional origin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans" title="Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans">Archaic admixture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Behavioral_modernity" title="Behavioral modernity">Behavioral modernity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_human_migrations" title="Early human migrations">Early migrations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Recent_human_evolution" title="Recent human evolution">Recent evolution</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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title="Naulette">Naulette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_flint_mines_of_Spiennes" title="Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes">Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes</a></li> <li>Ramioul</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scladina" title="Scladina">Scladina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spy_Cave" title="Spy Cave">Spy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trou_de_l%27Ab%C3%AEme" title="Trou de l'Abîme">Trou de l'Abîme</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Bosnia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Badanj_Cave" title="Badanj Cave">Badanj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ledenja%C4%8Da_Cave" title="Ledenjača Cave">Ledenjača</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Bulgaria</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bacho_Kiro_cave" title="Bacho Kiro cave">Bacho Kiro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devetashka_cave" title="Devetashka cave">Devetashka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kozarnika" class="mw-redirect" title="Kozarnika">Kozarnika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magura_Cave" title="Magura Cave">Magura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utroba_Cave" title="Utroba Cave">Utroba Cave</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Croatia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grap%C4%8Deva_cave" title="Grapčeva cave">Grapčeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krapina_Neanderthal_site" title="Krapina Neanderthal site">Krapina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vela_Spila" title="Vela Spila">Vela Spila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vindija_Cave" title="Vindija Cave">Vindija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romuald%27s_Cave" title="Romuald's 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Caves">Koněprusy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C5%AFlna_Cave" title="Kůlna Cave">Kůlna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mlade%C4%8D_caves" title="Mladeč caves">Mladeč</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0ipka" title="Šipka">Šipka</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Finland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolf Cave">Wolf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">France</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Sites_and_Decorated_Caves_of_the_V%C3%A9z%C3%A8re_Valley" title="Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley">Vézère Valley World Heritage Site</a></dt> <dd>Bara Bahau</dd> <dd>Bernifal</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cap_Blanc_rock_shelter" title="Cap Blanc rock shelter">Cap Blanc</a></dd> <dd>Castel Merle <dl><dd>Abri Castanet</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Reverdit_rockshelter" title="Reverdit rockshelter">Reverdit</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Les_Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil" title="Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil">Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil</a></dd> <dd>Abri Audi</dd> <dd>Abri Chadourne</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Les_Combarelles" title="Les Combarelles">Les Combarelles</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cro-Magnon_rock_shelter" title="Cro-Magnon rock shelter">Cro-Magnon</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Font-de-Gaume" title="Font-de-Gaume">Font-de-Gaume</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Laugerie-Basse" title="Laugerie-Basse">Laugerie-Basse</a></dd> <dd>Laugerie-Haute</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Micoque" class="mw-redirect" title="La Micoque">La Micoque</a></dd> <dd>La Mouthe</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Abri_Pataud" title="Abri Pataud">Pataud</a></dd> <dd>Abri du Poisson</dd> <dd><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lascaux</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Abri_de_la_Madeleine" title="Abri de la Madeleine">La Madeleine</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rouffignac_Cave" title="Rouffignac Cave">Rouffignac</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">Other World Heritage Sites</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chauvet_Cave" title="Chauvet Cave">Chauvet</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Other caves with decoration</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Caves_of_Arcy-sur-Cure" title="Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure">Arcy-sur-Cure</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Caves_of_Gargas" title="Caves of Gargas">Gargas</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cosquer_Cave" title="Cosquer Cave">Cosquer</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Grotte_de_Cussac" title="Grotte de Cussac">Cussac</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Font%C3%A9chevade" title="Fontéchevade">Fontéchevade</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Chaire_a_Calvin" title="La Chaire a Calvin">La Chaire a Calvin</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Marche_(cave)" title="La Marche (cave)">La Marche</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Lombrives" title="Lombrives">Lombrives</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Grotte_de_Gabillou" title="Grotte de Gabillou">Grotte de Gabillou</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Marsoulas_Cave" title="Marsoulas Cave">Marsoulas</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mas_d%27Azil_cave" title="Mas d'Azil cave">Mas d'Azil</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Mayri%C3%A8res_sup%C3%A9rieure" title="Cave of Mayrières supérieure">Mayrières supérieure</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Niaux" title="Cave of Niaux">Niaux</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pair-non-Pair" title="Pair-non-Pair">Pair-non-Pair</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pech_Merle" title="Pech Merle">Pech Merle</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Roc-aux-Sorciers" title="Roc-aux-Sorciers">Roc-aux-Sorciers</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Grotte_du_Renne" title="Grotte du Renne">Renne</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_the_Trois-Fr%C3%A8res" title="Cave of the Trois-Frères">Trois Frères</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Villars_Cave" title="Villars Cave">Villars</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/List_of_caves_in_France" title="List of caves in France">Other caves</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Arago_cave" title="Arago cave">Arago</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Aurignac" title="Cave of Aurignac">Aurignac</a></dd> <dd>Azé</dd> <dd>Balauzière</dd> <dd>Bonne-Femme</dd> <dd>Bouillon</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bruniquel_Cave" title="Bruniquel Cave">Bruniquel</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Lamanon" title="Lamanon">Calès</a></dd> <dd>Cauna</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Chapelle-aux-Saints" title="La Chapelle-aux-Saints">La Chapelle-aux-Saints</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Combe_Grenal" title="Combe Grenal">Combe Grenal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Ferrassie" title="La Ferrassie">La Ferrassie</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Grotte_des_F%C3%A9es" title="La Grotte des Fées">Fées</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Fontbr%C3%A9goua_Cave" title="Fontbrégoua Cave">Fontbrégoua</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Grotte_du_Lazaret" title="Grotte du Lazaret">Lazaret</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Le_Moustier" title="Le Moustier">Le Moustier</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Noisetier_Cave" title="Noisetier Cave">Noisetier</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Quina" title="La Quina">La Quina</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Raymonden" title="Raymonden">Raymonden</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Le_Regourdou" title="Le Regourdou">Le Regourdou</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rochereil" title="Rochereil">Rochereil</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Grotte_du_Vallonnet" title="Grotte du Vallonnet">Vallonnet</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Germany</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Caves_and_Ice_Age_Art_in_the_Swabian_Jura" title="Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura">Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura World Heritage Site</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bockstein_Cave" title="Bockstein Cave">Bockstein</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Geissenkl%C3%B6sterle" title="Geissenklösterle">Geissenklösterle</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Hohle_Fels" title="Hohle Fels">Hohle Fels</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Hohlenstein-Stadel" title="Hohlenstein-Stadel">Hohlenstein-Stadel</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sirgenstein_Cave" title="Sirgenstein Cave">Sirgenstein</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vogelherd_Cave" title="Vogelherd Cave">Vogelherd</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Other caves</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Baumann%27s_Cave" title="Baumann's Cave">Baumann's</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Brillenh%C3%B6hle" title="Brillenhöhle">Brillenhöhle</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kleine_Feldhofer_Grotte" title="Kleine Feldhofer Grotte">Kleine Feldhofer</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Lichtenstein_Cave" title="Lichtenstein Cave">Lichtenstein</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ofnet_Caves" title="Ofnet Caves">Ofnet</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef"><a 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Cave">Eileithyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franchthi_Cave" title="Franchthi Cave">Franchthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kleidi_Cave" title="Kleidi Cave">Kleidi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megalakkos" title="Megalakkos">Megalakkos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petralona_cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Petralona cave">Petralona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stravomyti" class="mw-redirect" title="Stravomyti">Stravomyti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theopetra_cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Theopetra cave">Theopetra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Hungary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baradla_cave" title="Baradla cave">Baradla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Szelim_cave" title="Szelim cave">Szelim</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Italy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grotta_dell%27Addaura" title="Grotta dell'Addaura">Addaura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arene_Candide" title="Arene Candide">Arene Candide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balzi_Rossi" title="Balzi Rossi">Balzi Rossi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grotta_del_Cavallo" title="Grotta del Cavallo">Cavallo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corbeddu_Cave" title="Corbeddu Cave">Corbeddu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deer_Cave_(Otranto)" title="Deer Cave (Otranto)">Deer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grotta_delle_Felci" title="Grotta delle Felci"><i>Felci</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paglicci_Cave" title="Paglicci Cave">Paglicci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romito_Cave" title="Romito Cave">Romito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ripari_Villabruna" title="Ripari Villabruna">Villabruna</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef"><a href="/wiki/Jersey" title="Jersey">Jersey</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Cotte_de_St_Brelade" title="La Cotte de St Brelade">St Brelade</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Kosovo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bukuroshja_e_Fjetur_Cave" title="Bukuroshja e Fjetur Cave">Bukuroshja e Fjetur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Luxembourg</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Loschbur" class="mw-redirect" title="Loschbur">Loschbur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Malta</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G%C4%A7ar_Dalam" title="Għar Dalam">Għar Dalam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef"><a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cocev_Kamen" title="Cocev Kamen">Cocev Kamen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Norway</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Svarthola" title="Svarthola">Svarthola</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Poland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ob%C5%82azowa_Cave" title="Obłazowa Cave">Obłazowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Cave" title="Paradise Cave">Paradise</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Portugal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Aroeira" title="Cave of Aroeira">Aroeira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Escoural_Cave" title="Escoural Cave">Escoural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Furninha" title="Furninha">Furninha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abrigo_do_Lagar_Velho" title="Abrigo do Lagar Velho">Lagar Velho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Rock-Art_Site_of_Pala_Pinta" title="Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of Pala Pinta">Pala Pinta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Pedra_Furada" title="Cave of Pedra Furada">Pedra Furada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Pego_do_Diabo" title="Cave of Pego do Diabo">Pego do Diabo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Salemas" title="Cave of Salemas">Salemas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Romania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coliboaia_Cave" title="Coliboaia Cave">Coliboaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuciulat_Cave" title="Cuciulat Cave">Cuciulat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pe%C8%99tera_Muierilor" title="Peștera Muierilor">Muierilor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pe%C8%99tera_cu_Oase" title="Peștera cu Oase">Oase</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Russia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akhshtyrskaya_Cave" title="Akhshtyrskaya Cave">Akhshtyrskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chertovy_Vorota_Cave" title="Chertovy Vorota Cave">Chertovy Vorota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denisova_Cave" title="Denisova Cave">Denisova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ignatievka_Cave" title="Ignatievka Cave">Ignatievka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shulgan-Tash_Cave" title="Shulgan-Tash Cave">Shulgan-Tash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mezmaiskaya_cave" title="Mezmaiskaya cave">Mezmaiskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okladnikov_Cave" title="Okladnikov Cave">Okladnikov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Serbia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Had%C5%BEi-Prodan%27s_Cave" title="Hadži-Prodan's Cave">Hadži-Prodan's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pe%C5%A1turina" title="Pešturina">Pešturina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Risova%C4%8Da_Cave" title="Risovača Cave">Risovača</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balanica" title="Balanica">Mala Balanica and Velika Balanica</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Slovakia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Certova_pec" title="Čertova pec">Čertova pec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domica_Cave" title="Domica Cave">Domica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasovsk%C3%A1_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Jasovská Cave">Jasovská</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Slovenia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Betal_Rock_Shelter" title="Betal Rock Shelter">Betal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divje_Babe" title="Divje Babe">Divje Babe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hell_Cave" title="Hell Cave">Pekel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potok_Cave" title="Potok Cave">Potok</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Spain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Altamira_and_Paleolithic_Cave_Art_of_Northern_Spain" title="Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain">Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain World Heritage Site</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Altamira" title="Cave of Altamira">Altamira</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Caves_in_Cantabria" title="Caves in Cantabria">Caves in Cantabria</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Chuf%C3%ADn" title="Cave of Chufín">Chufín</a></dd> <dd>Covalanas</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/La_Garma_cave_complex" title="La Garma cave complex">La Garma</a></dd> <dd>Hornos de la Peña</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Caves_of_Monte_Castillo" title="Caves of Monte Castillo">Monte Castillo</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_El_Castillo" title="Cave of El Castillo">El Castillo</a></dd> <dd>Las Chimeneas</dd> <dd>Las Monedas</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_La_Pasiega" title="Cave of La Pasiega">La Pasiega</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd>El Pendo</dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tito_Bustillo_Cave" title="Tito Bustillo Cave">Tito Bustillo</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Altxerri" title="Cave of Altxerri">Altxerri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Santimami%C3%B1e" title="Santimamiñe">Santimamiñe</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Los_Aviones" title="Cave of Los Aviones">Los Aviones</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Rock_art_of_the_Iberian_Mediterranean_Basin" title="Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin">Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin World Heritage Site</a>)</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cuevas_de_la_Ara%C3%B1a" title="Cuevas de la Araña">Araña</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Roca_dels_Moros" title="Roca dels Moros">Roca dels Moros</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">Other World Heritage Sites</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Atapuerca_Mountains" title="Atapuerca Mountains">Atapuerca</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Siega_Verde" class="mw-redirect" title="Siega Verde">Siega Verde</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Other caves with decoration</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Bacinete" title="Cave of Bacinete">Bacinete</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_the_Barranc_del_Migdia" title="Cave of the Barranc del Migdia">Barranc del Migdia</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Las_Caldas_cave" title="Las Caldas cave">Las Caldas</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cueva_de_los_Casares" title="Cueva de los Casares">Los Casares</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Maltravieso" title="Cave of Maltravieso">Maltravieso</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cueva_de_los_Murci%C3%A9lagos" title="Cueva de los Murciélagos">los Murciélagos</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Caves_of_Nerja" title="Caves of Nerja">Nerja</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Ni%C3%B1o" title="Cave of Niño">Niño</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ojo_Guare%C3%B1a" title="Ojo Guareña">Ojo Guareña</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pe%C3%B1as_de_Cabrera" title="Peñas de Cabrera">Peñas de Cabrera</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cueva_de_la_Pileta" title="Cueva de la Pileta">la Pileta</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Praileaitz_Cave" title="Praileaitz Cave">Praileaitz</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sidr%C3%B3n_Cave" title="Sidrón Cave">Sidrón</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/List_of_caves_in_Spain" title="List of caves in Spain">Other caves</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_the_Angel" title="Cave of the Angel">Ángel</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cueva_Ant%C3%B3n" title="Cueva Antón">Antón</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Armintxe_Cave" title="Armintxe Cave">Armintxe</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Axlor" title="Axlor">Axlor</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Bedmar" title="Cave of Bedmar">Bedmar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Roca_dels_Bous_(archaeological_site)" title="Roca dels Bous (archaeological site)">dels Bous</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Caves_of_Don_Gaspar" title="Caves of Don Gaspar">Don Gaspar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_the_Guanches" title="Cave of the Guanches">Guanches</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/El_Mir%C3%B3n_Cave" title="El Mirón Cave">El Mirón</a></dd> <dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Catalina_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Santa Catalina Cave (page does not exist)">Santa Catalina</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cave_del_Valle_(Cantabria)" title="Cave del Valle (Cantabria)">del Valle</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Switzerland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grotte_du_Bichon" title="Grotte du Bichon">Bichon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wildkirchli" title="Wildkirchli">Wildkirchli</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">Ukraine</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Verteba_Cave" title="Verteba Cave">Verteba</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:lef">United Kingdom</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aveline%27s_Hole" title="Aveline's Hole">Aveline's Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bontnewydd_Palaeolithic_site" title="Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site">Bontnewydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathole_Cave" title="Cathole Cave">Cathole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coygan_Cave" title="Coygan Cave">Coygan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creswell_Crags" title="Creswell Crags">Creswell Crags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gough%27s_Cave" title="Gough's Cave">Gough's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathery_Burn_Cave" title="Heathery Burn Cave">Heathery Burn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Pasture_Cave" title="High Pasture Cave">High Pasture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kendrick%27s_Cave" title="Kendrick's Cave">Kendrick's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kents_Cavern" title="Kents Cavern">Kents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Hole_Cave" title="Long Hole Cave">Long Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marble_Arch_Caves" title="Marble Arch Caves">Marble Arch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldbury_rock_shelters" title="Oldbury rock shelters">Oldbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portbraddon_Cave" title="Portbraddon Cave">Portbraddon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Lady_of_Paviland" title="Red Lady of Paviland">Red Lady of Paviland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sand,_Applecross" title="Sand, Applecross">Sand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thor%27s_Cave" title="Thor's Cave">Thor's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windmill_Hill_Cavern" title="Windmill Hill Cavern">Windmill Hill</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Asia568" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Category:Rock_art_in_Asia" title="Category:Rock art in Asia">Asia</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Afghanistan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Darra-e_Kur" title="Darra-e Kur">Darra-e Kur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Armenia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Areni-1_cave_complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Areni-1 cave complex">Areni-1</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Azerbaijan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allar_Cave" title="Allar Cave">Allar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azykh_Cave" title="Azykh Cave">Azykh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buzeyir_cave" title="Buzeyir cave">Buzeyir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damjili_Cave" title="Damjili Cave">Damjili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ta%C4%9Flar_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Tağlar Cave">Tağlar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zar_Cave" title="Zar Cave">Zar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gazma_Cave" title="Gazma Cave">Gazma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Cambodia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laang_Spean" title="Laang Spean">Laang Spean</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">China</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baishiya_Karst_Cave" title="Baishiya Karst Cave">Baishiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuyan_Cave" title="Fuyan Cave">Fuyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guanyindong" title="Guanyindong">Guanyindong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luobi_Cave" title="Luobi Cave">Luobi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tianyuan_Cave" title="Tianyuan Cave">Tianyuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xianren_Cave" title="Xianren Cave">Xianren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuchanyan_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuchanyan Cave">Yuchanyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhoukoudian" title="Zhoukoudian">Zhoukoudian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zengpiyan_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Zengpiyan Cave">Zengpiyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhiren_Cave" title="Zhiren Cave">Zhiren</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">East Timor</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerimalai" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerimalai">Jerimalai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laili_(cave)" title="Laili (cave)">Laili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lene_Hara_cave" title="Lene Hara cave">Lene Hara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Georgia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Satsurblia_Cave" title="Satsurblia Cave">Satsurblia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">India</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambadevi_rock_shelters" title="Ambadevi rock shelters">Ambadevi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belum_Caves" title="Belum Caves">Belum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhimbetka_rock_shelters" title="Bhimbetka rock shelters">Bhimbetka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edakkal_Caves" class="mw-redirect" title="Edakkal Caves">Edakkal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gudiyam_Cave" title="Gudiyam Cave">Gudiyam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pahargarh_caves" title="Pahargarh caves">Pahargarh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikla" title="Tikla">Tikla</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Indonesia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harimau_Cave" title="Harimau Cave">Harimau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lubang_Jeriji_Sal%C3%A9h" title="Lubang Jeriji Saléh">Jeriji Saléh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liang_Bua" title="Liang Bua">Liang Bua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pettakere_cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Pettakere cave">Pettakere</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Iran</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bisitun_Cave" title="Bisitun Cave">Bisitun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darband_Cave" title="Darband Cave">Darband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Do-Ashkaft_Cave" title="Do-Ashkaft Cave">Do-Ashkaft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eshkaft-e_Siahoo" title="Eshkaft-e Siahoo">Eshkaft-e Siahoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huto_and_Kamarband_Caves" class="mw-redirect" title="Huto and Kamarband Caves">Huto and Kamarband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qaleh_Bozi" class="mw-redirect" title="Qaleh Bozi">Qaleh Bozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warwasi" title="Warwasi">Warwasi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wezmeh" title="Wezmeh">Wezmeh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yafteh" title="Yafteh">Yafteh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Iraq</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hazar_Merd_Cave" title="Hazar Merd Cave">Hazar Merd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanidar_Cave" title="Shanidar Cave">Shanidar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Israel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amud_Cave" title="Amud Cave">Amud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HaYonim_Cave" title="HaYonim Cave">HaYonim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kebara_Cave" title="Kebara Cave">Kebara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manot_Cave" title="Manot Cave">Manot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misliya_cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Misliya cave">Misliya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahal_Me%27arot_Nature_Reserve" title="Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve">Nahal Me'arot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahal_Hemar" class="mw-redirect" title="Nahal Hemar">Nahal Hemar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahal_Oren_(archaeological_site)" title="Nahal Oren (archaeological site)">Nahal Oren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qafzeh_cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Qafzeh cave">Qafzeh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qesem_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Qesem Cave">Qesem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raqefet_Cave" title="Raqefet Cave">Raqefet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Es_Skhul" class="mw-redirect" title="Es Skhul">Skhul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabun_Cave" title="Tabun Cave">Tabun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mugharet_el-Zuttiyeh" title="Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh">Zuttiyeh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Japan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kosegasawa_Cave" title="Kosegasawa Cave">Kosegasawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minatogawa_Man" title="Minatogawa Man">Minatogawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muroya_Cave" title="Muroya Cave">Muroya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Czakai_Cave_Dwelling_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="Ōzakai Cave Dwelling Site">Ōzakai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinza-Abu_Cave_Man" title="Pinza-Abu Cave Man">Pinza-Abu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiraho_Saonetabaru_Cave_Ruins" title="Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins">Shiraho Saonetabaru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tobayama_Cave" title="Tobayama Cave">Tobayama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamashita_Cave_Man" title="Yamashita Cave Man">Yamashita</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Jordan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_ed-Dubb" title="Iraq ed-Dubb">Iraq ed-Dubb</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Laos</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tham_An_Mah" title="Tham An Mah">Tham An Mah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tam_Pa_Ling_Cave" title="Tam Pa Ling Cave">Tam Pa Ling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Lebanon</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antelias_cave" title="Antelias cave">Antelias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeita_Grotto" title="Jeita Grotto">Jeita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaukaba" title="Kaukaba">Kaukaba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ksar_Akil" title="Ksar Akil">Ksar Akil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ras_Baalbek_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Ras Baalbek I">Ras Baalbek I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ras_El_Kelb" title="Ras El Kelb">Ras El Kelb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nachcharini" title="Nachcharini">Nachcharini</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Malaysia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Niah_National_Park" title="Niah National Park">Niah</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Mongolia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khoit_Tsenkher_Cave_Rock_Art" title="Khoit Tsenkher Cave Rock Art">Khoit Tsenkher</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Myanmar</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Padah-Lin_Caves" title="Padah-Lin Caves">Padah-Lin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Pakistan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanghao_Cave" title="Sanghao Cave">Sanghao</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Palestine" title="Palestine">Palestine</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shuqba_cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Shuqba cave">Shuqba</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Philippines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Callao_Cave" title="Callao Cave">Callao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guyangan_Cave_System" title="Guyangan Cave System">Guyangan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalanay_Cave" title="Kalanay Cave">Kalanay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minori_Cave" title="Minori Cave">Minori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lapuz_Lapuz_Cave" title="Lapuz Lapuz Cave">Lapuz Lapuz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabon_Caves" title="Tabon Caves">Tabon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Sri Lanka</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Batadombalena" title="Batadombalena">Batadombalena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belilena" class="mw-redirect" title="Belilena">Belilena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fa_Hien_Cave" title="Fa Hien Cave">Fa Hien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunugalagala_Limestone_Cave" title="Hunugalagala Limestone Cave">Hunugalagala</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Thailand</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pha_Taem_National_Park" title="Pha Taem National Park">Pha Taem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_Cave,_Thailand" class="mw-redirect" title="Spirit Cave, Thailand">Spirit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tham_Lod_rockshelter" title="Tham Lod rockshelter">Tham Lod</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Turkmenistan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Dzhebel" title="Cave of Dzhebel">Dzhebel</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Turkey</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belba%C5%9F%C4%B1" title="Belbaşı">Belbaşı</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karain_Cave" title="Karain Cave">Karain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yar%C4%B1mburgaz_Cave" title="Yarımburgaz Cave">Yarımburgaz</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Uzbekistan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Obi-Rakhmat_Grotto" title="Obi-Rakhmat Grotto">Obi-Rakhmat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teshik-Tash" class="mw-redirect" title="Teshik-Tash">Teshik-Tash</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Vietnam</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Con_Moong_Cave" title="Con Moong Cave">Con Moong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ng%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dm" title="Ngườm">Ngườm</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Africa568" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Category:Rock_art_in_Africa" title="Category:Rock art in Africa">Africa</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Algeria</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gueldaman_caves" title="Gueldaman caves">Gueldaman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Botswana</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tsodilo" title="Tsodilo">Tsodilo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manyana_Rock_Paintings" title="Manyana Rock Paintings">Manyana Rock Paintings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Cameroon</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shum_Laka" title="Shum Laka">Shum Laka</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">DR Congo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matupi_Cave" title="Matupi Cave">Matupi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Egypt</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Beasts" title="Cave of Beasts">Beasts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Swimmers" title="Cave of Swimmers">Swimmers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Kenya</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Enkapune_Ya_Muto" title="Enkapune Ya Muto">Enkapune Ya Muto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Njoro_River_Cave" title="Njoro River Cave">Njoro River</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Lesotho</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liphofung_Historical_Site" title="Liphofung Historical Site">Liphofung</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Libya</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haua_Fteah" title="Haua Fteah">Haua Fteah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uan_Muhuggiag" title="Uan Muhuggiag">Uan Muhuggiag</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Morocco</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caves_of_Hercules" title="Caves of Hercules">Hercules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ifri_N%27Ammar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ifri N'Ammar">Ifri N'Ammar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ifri_N%27Amr_Ou_Moussa" title="Ifri N'Amr Ou Moussa">Ifri N'Amr Ou Moussa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ifri_Oudadane" title="Ifri Oudadane">Ifri Oudadane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jebel_Irhoud" title="Jebel Irhoud">Jebel Irhoud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelif_el_Boroud" class="mw-redirect" title="Kelif el Boroud">Kelif el Boroud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taforalt" title="Taforalt">Taforalt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Mozambique</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ngalue" title="Ngalue">Ngalue</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Namibia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_Cave" title="Apollo 11 Cave">Apollo 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_White_Lady_(Namibia)" title="The White Lady (Namibia)">The White Lady</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Nigeria</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rop_rock_shelter" title="Rop rock shelter">Rop</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Somaliland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dhambalin" title="Dhambalin">Dhambalin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhaymoole" title="Dhaymoole">Dhaymoole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laas_Geel" title="Laas Geel">Laas Geel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">South Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_Humankind" title="Cradle of Humankind">Cradle of Humankind, World Heritage Site</a></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bolt%27s_Farm" title="Bolt's Farm">Bolt's Farm</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cooper%27s_Cave" title="Cooper's Cave">Cooper's</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Drimolen" title="Drimolen">Drimolen</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gladysvale_Cave" title="Gladysvale Cave">Gladysvale</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gondolin_Cave" title="Gondolin Cave">Gondolin</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Haasgat" title="Haasgat">Haasgat</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kromdraai_fossil_site" title="Kromdraai fossil site">Kromdraai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Makapansgat" title="Makapansgat">Makapansgat</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Malapa_Fossil_Site,_Cradle_of_Humankind" title="Malapa Fossil Site, Cradle of Humankind">Malapa</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Minnaar%27s_Cave" title="Minnaar's Cave">Minnaar's</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Motsetsi" title="Motsetsi">Motsetsi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Plovers_Lake" title="Plovers Lake">Plovers Lake</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rising_Star_Cave" title="Rising Star Cave">Rising Star</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sterkfontein" title="Sterkfontein">Sterkfontein</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Swartkrans" title="Swartkrans">Swartkrans</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Other caves</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Blombos_Cave" title="Blombos Cave">Blombos</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Border_Cave" title="Border Cave">Border</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Boomplaas_Cave" title="Boomplaas Cave">Boomplaas</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Byneskranskop" title="Byneskranskop">Byneskranskop</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cango_Caves" title="Cango Caves">Cango</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Diepkloof_Rock_Shelter" title="Diepkloof Rock Shelter">Diepkloof</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Elands_Bay_Cave" title="Elands Bay Cave">Elands Bay</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Howieson%27s_Poort_Shelter" title="Howieson's Poort Shelter">Howieson's Poort</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Klasies_River_Caves" title="Klasies River Caves">Klasies River</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Melkhoutboom_Cave" title="Melkhoutboom Cave">Melkhoutboom</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Bay_Cave" title="Nelson Bay Cave">Nelson Bay</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pinnacle_Point" title="Pinnacle Point">Pinnacle Point</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sibudu_Cave" title="Sibudu Cave">Sibudu</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Stadsaal_Caves" title="Stadsaal Caves">Stadsaal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wonderwerk_Cave" title="Wonderwerk Cave">Wonderwerk</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Tanzania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kondoa_Rock-Art_Sites" title="Kondoa Rock-Art Sites">Kondoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bahi_rock_art_sites" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahi rock art sites">Bahi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mumba_Cave" title="Mumba Cave">Mumba</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Uganda</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nyero_rock_paintings" title="Nyero rock paintings">Nyero</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Zambia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kalemba_Rockshelter" title="Kalemba Rockshelter">Kalemba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mumbwa_Caves" title="Mumbwa Caves">Mumbwa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Zimbabwe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bambata_Cave" title="Bambata Cave">Bambata</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="North_and_South_America568" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Category:Rock_art_in_North_America" title="Category:Rock art in North America">North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Rock_art_in_South_America" title="Category:Rock art in South America">South America</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Argentina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cueva_de_las_Manos" title="Cueva de las Manos">Cueva de las Manos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Aruba</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quadiriki_Caves" title="Quadiriki Caves">Quadiriki</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Belize</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Actun_Tunichil_Muknal" title="Actun Tunichil Muknal">Actun Tunichil Muknal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Creek_Cave" title="Barton Creek Cave">Barton Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midnight_Terror_Cave" title="Midnight Terror Cave">Midnight Terror</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Brazil</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grotto_of_the_Gentio" title="Grotto of the Gentio">Gentio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gruta_de_Maquin%C3%A9" title="Gruta de Maquiné">Maquiné</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caverna_da_Pedra_Pintada" title="Caverna da Pedra Pintada">Pedra Pintada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavernas_do_Perua%C3%A7u_National_Park" title="Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park">Peruaçu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gruta_Rei_do_Mato" title="Gruta Rei do Mato">Rei do Mato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lapa_do_Santo" title="Lapa do Santo">Santo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toca_da_Tira_Peia" title="Toca da Tira Peia">Toca da Tira Peia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Canada</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bluefish_Caves" title="Bluefish Caves">Bluefish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Lake_Cave" title="Charlie Lake Cave">Charlie Lake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Chile</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cueva_Fell" title="Cueva Fell">Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cueva_del_Milod%C3%B3n_Natural_Monument" title="Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument">Milodón</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Colombia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Abra" title="El Abra">El Abra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serran%C3%ADa_de_Chiribiquete#Protected_area" title="Serranía de Chiribiquete">Chiribiquete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piedras_del_Tunjo_Archaeological_Park" title="Piedras del Tunjo Archaeological Park">Piedras del Tunjo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A1chica#Rock_art" title="Sáchica">Sáchica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tequendama" title="Tequendama">Tequendama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibit%C3%B3" title="Tibitó">Tibitó</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Cuba</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrosio_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambrosio Cave">Ambrosio</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calero_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Calero Cave (page does not exist)">Calero</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Centella_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Centella Cave (page does not exist)">Centella</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cura_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cura Cave (page does not exist)">Cura</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patana_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patana Cave (page does not exist)">Patana</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pluma_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pluma Cave (page does not exist)">Pluma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hato_Caves" title="Hato Caves">Hato</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Dominican Republic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pomier_Caves" title="Pomier Caves">Pomier</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Jamaica</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Long_Mile_Cave" title="Long Mile Cave">Long Mile</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Mexico</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chan_Hol" title="Chan Hol">Chan Hol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coxcatlan_Cave" title="Coxcatlan Cave">Coxcatlan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dzibilchaltun" title="Dzibilchaltun">Dzibilchaltún</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cueva_de_las_Flechas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cueva de las Flechas (page does not exist)">Las Flechas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frightful_Cave" title="Frightful Cave">Frightful</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guil%C3%A1_Naquitz_Cave" title="Guilá Naquitz Cave">Guilá Naquitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sistema_Ox_Bel_Ha" title="Sistema Ox Bel Ha">Ox Bel Ha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxtotitl%C3%A1n" title="Oxtotitlán">Oxtotitlán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sistema_Sac_Actun" title="Sistema Sac Actun">Sac Actun</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Peru</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chivateros" title="Chivateros">Chivateros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guitarrero_Cave" title="Guitarrero Cave">Guitarrero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pikimachay" title="Pikimachay">Pikimachay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qillqatani" title="Qillqatani">Qillqatani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toquepala_Caves" title="Toquepala Caves">Toquepala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%27uqu_T%27uquyuq" title="T'uqu T'uquyuq">T'uqu T'uquyuq</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Suriname</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Werehpai" title="Werehpai">Werehpai</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">United States</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Research_Cave" title="Research Cave">Arnold Research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baker_Cave" title="Baker Cave">Baker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonfire_Shelter" title="Bonfire Shelter">Bonfire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bull_Thistle_Cave_Archaeological_Site" title="Bull Thistle Cave Archaeological Site">Bull Thistle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnet_Cave" title="Burnet Cave">Burnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Creek_Rockshelter" title="Cherry Creek Rockshelter">Cherry Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Millennial_site" title="Colorado Millennial site">Colorado Millennial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danger_Cave" title="Danger Cave">Danger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daugherty%27s_Cave_and_Breeding_Site" title="Daugherty's Cave and Breeding Site">Daugherty's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dry_Creek_Rockshelter" title="Dry Creek Rockshelter">Dry Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durango_Rock_Shelters_Archeology_Site" title="Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site">Durango</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dust_Cave" title="Dust Cave">Dust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutchess_Quarry_Cave_Site" title="Dutchess Quarry Cave Site">Dutchess Quarry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Rock_Cave" title="Fort Rock Cave">Fort Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franktown_Cave" title="Franktown Cave">Franktown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gatecliff_Rockshelter" title="Gatecliff Rockshelter">Gatecliff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Cave" title="Graham Cave">Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hidden_Cave" title="Hidden Cave">Hidden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hidden_Valley_Rock_Shelter" title="Hidden Valley Rock Shelter">Hidden Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hogup_Cave" title="Hogup Cave">Hogup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_Cave" title="Humboldt Cave">Humboldt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Grange_Rock_Shelter" title="La Grange Rock Shelter">La Grange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Last_Supper_Cave" title="Last Supper Cave">Last Supper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levi_Rock_Shelter" title="Levi Rock Shelter">Levi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LoDaisKa_site" title="LoDaisKa site">LoDaisKa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovelock_Cave" title="Lovelock Cave">Lovelock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mammoth_Cave_National_Park" title="Mammoth Cave National Park">Mammoth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mantle%27s_Cave" title="Mantle's Cave">Mantle's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmes_Rockshelter" title="Marmes Rockshelter">Marmes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martz_Rock_Shelters" title="Martz Rock Shelters">Martz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meadowcroft_Rockshelter" title="Meadowcroft Rockshelter">Meadowcroft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modoc_Rock_Shelter" title="Modoc Rock Shelter">Modoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mummy_Cave" title="Mummy Cave">Mummy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On_Your_Knees_Cave" title="On Your Knees Cave">On Your Knees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_Caves" title="Paisley Caves">Paisley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendejo_Cave" title="Pendejo Cave">Pendejo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pictograph_Cave_(Billings,_Montana)" title="Pictograph Cave (Billings, Montana)">Pictograph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockhouse_Cliffs_Rockshelters" title="Rockhouse Cliffs Rockshelters">Rockhouse Cliffs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Cave_National_Monument" title="Russell Cave National Monument">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandia_Cave" title="Sandia Cave">Sandia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoup_Rock_Shelters" title="Shoup Rock Shelters">Shoup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sisyphus_Shelter" title="Sisyphus Shelter">Sisyphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanfield-Worley_Bluff_Shelter" title="Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter">Stanfield-Worley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tainter_Cave" title="Tainter Cave">Tainter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomaquag_Rock_Shelters" title="Tomaquag Rock Shelters">Tomaquag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trail_Creek_Caves" title="Trail Creek Caves">Trail Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinchera_Cave_Archeological_District" title="Trinchera Cave Archeological District">Trinchera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ventana_Cave" title="Ventana Cave">Ventana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_Butte_Cave" title="Wilson Butte Cave">Wilson Butte</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Oceania568" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Category:Rock_art_of_Oceania" title="Category:Rock art of Oceania">Oceania</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Australia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abrakurrie_Cave" title="Abrakurrie Cave">Abrakurrie</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acheron_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Acheron Cave (page does not exist)">Acheron</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballawinne_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ballawinne Cave (page does not exist)">Ballawinne</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beeton_Shelter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beeton Shelter (page does not exist)">Beeton Shelter</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beginner%27s_Luck_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beginner's Luck Cave (page does not exist)">Beginner's Luck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blanche_Cave" title="Blanche Cave">Blanche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bone_Cave_(Tasmania)" title="Bone Cave (Tasmania)">Bone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burrup_Peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Burrup Peninsula">Burrup</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cave_Bay_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cave Bay Cave (page does not exist)">Cave Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliefden_Caves" title="Cliefden Caves">Cliefden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloggs_Cave" title="Cloggs Cave">Cloggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_Lair" title="Devil's Lair">Devil's Lair</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eagles_Reach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eagles Reach (page does not exist)">Eagles Reach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fossil_Cave" title="Fossil Cave">Fossil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabarnmung" title="Gabarnmung">Gabarnmung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwion_Gwion_rock_paintings" title="Gwion Gwion rock paintings">Gwion Gwion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jenolan_Caves#Indigenous_culture" title="Jenolan Caves">Jenolan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koongine_Cave" title="Koongine Cave">Koongine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koonalda_Cave" title="Koonalda Cave">Koonalda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kutikina_Cave" title="Kutikina Cave">Kutikina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Mackintosh" title="Lake Mackintosh">Mackintosh 90/1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madjedbebe" title="Madjedbebe">Madjedbebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mammoth_Cave_(Western_Australia)" title="Mammoth 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title="History of technology">history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_archaeology" title="Glossary of archaeology">Glossary</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Tools434" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Lithic_technology" title="Lithic technology">Tools</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_agriculture" title="History of agriculture">Farming</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution" title="Neolithic Revolution">Neolithic Revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Founder_crops" title="Founder crops">Founder crops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_World_crops" title="New World crops">New World crops</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ard_(plough)" title="Ard (plough)">Ard / plough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celt_(tool)" title="Celt (tool)">Celt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digging_stick" title="Digging stick">Digging stick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domestication" title="Domestication">Domestication</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goad" title="Goad">Goad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irrigation" title="Irrigation">Irrigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secondary_products_revolution" title="Secondary products revolution">Secondary products</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sickle" title="Sickle">Sickle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrace_(earthworks)" title="Terrace (earthworks)">Terracing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Food processing<br />(<a href="/wiki/Pleistocene_human_diet" title="Pleistocene human diet">Paleolithic diet</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans" title="Control of fire by early humans">Fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basket" title="Basket">Basket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooking" title="Cooking">Cooking</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earth_oven" title="Earth oven">Earth oven</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granary" title="Granary">Granaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grinding_slab" title="Grinding slab">Grinding slab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ground_stone" title="Ground stone">Ground stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hearth" title="Hearth">Hearth</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A%C5%9F%C4%B1kl%C4%B1_H%C3%B6y%C3%BCk#Hearths" title="Aşıklı Höyük">Aşıklı Höyük</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qesem_cave#Fire" title="Qesem cave">Qesem cave</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mano_(stone)" title="Mano (stone)">Manos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metate" title="Metate">Metate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mortar_and_pestle" title="Mortar and pestle">Mortar and pestle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pottery" title="Pottery">Pottery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quern-stone" title="Quern-stone">Quern-stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_storage_pits" title="Prehistoric storage pits">Storage pits</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Hunting_hypothesis" title="Hunting hypothesis">Hunting</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arrow" title="Arrow">Arrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boomerang" title="Boomerang">Boomerang</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Throwing_stick" title="Throwing stick">throwing stick</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bow_and_arrow" title="Bow and arrow">Bow and arrow</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_archery" title="History of archery">history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravettian#Hunting" title="Gravettian">Nets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spear" title="Spear">Spear</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spear-thrower" title="Spear-thrower">spear-thrower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baton_fragment_(Palart_310)" title="Baton fragment (Palart 310)">baton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpoon" title="Harpoon">harpoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears" title="Schöningen spears">Schöningen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woomera_(spear-thrower)" title="Woomera (spear-thrower)">woomera</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Projectile_point" title="Projectile point">Projectile points</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arrowhead" title="Arrowhead">Arrowhead</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Transverse_arrowhead" title="Transverse arrowhead">Transverse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bare_Island_projectile_point" title="Bare Island projectile point">Bare Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cascade_point" title="Cascade point">Cascade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clovis_point" title="Clovis point">Clovis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creswellian_culture" title="Creswellian culture">Cresswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_point" title="Cumberland point">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eden_point" title="Eden point">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folsom_point" title="Folsom point">Folsom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamoka_projectile_point" title="Lamoka projectile point">Lamoka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manis_Mastodon_site" title="Manis Mastodon site">Manis Mastodon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plano_point" title="Plano point">Plano</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Game_drive_system" title="Game drive system">Game drive system</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_jump" title="Buffalo jump">Buffalo jump</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Lithic_technology" title="Lithic technology">Toolmaking</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Industry_(archaeology)" title="Industry (archaeology)">Earliest toolmaking</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oldowan" title="Oldowan">Oldowan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acheulean" title="Acheulean">Acheulean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mousterian" title="Mousterian">Mousterian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurignacian" title="Aurignacian">Aurignacian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clovis_culture" title="Clovis culture">Clovis culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupstone" title="Cupstone">Cupstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire_hardening" title="Fire hardening">Fire hardening</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravettian" title="Gravettian">Gravettian culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafting" title="Hafting">Hafting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hand_axe" title="Hand axe">Hand axe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grooves_(archaeology)" title="Grooves (archaeology)">Grooves</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langdale_axe_industry" title="Langdale axe industry">Langdale axe industry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levallois_technique" title="Levallois technique">Levallois technique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_core" title="Lithic core">Lithic core</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_reduction" title="Lithic reduction">Lithic reduction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_analysis" title="Lithic analysis">analysis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debitage" title="Debitage">debitage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_flake" title="Lithic flake">flake</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_technology" title="Lithic technology">Lithic technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magdalenian" title="Magdalenian">Magdalenian culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferrous_metallurgy" title="Ferrous metallurgy">Metallurgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microblade_technology" title="Microblade technology">Microblade technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grime%27s_Graves" title="Grime's Graves">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prepared-core_technique" title="Prepared-core technique">Prepared-core technique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solutrean" title="Solutrean">Solutrean industry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Striking_platform" title="Striking platform">Striking platform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tool_stone" title="Tool stone">Tool stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uniface" title="Uniface">Uniface</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yubetsu_technique" title="Yubetsu technique">Yubetsu technique</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Artifact_(archaeology)" title="Artifact (archaeology)">Other tools</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adze" title="Adze">Adze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stitching_awl" title="Stitching awl">Awl</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gravettian#Use_of_animal_remains" title="Gravettian">bone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axe" title="Axe">Axe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bannerstone" title="Bannerstone">Bannerstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blade_(archaeology)" title="Blade (archaeology)">Blade</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prismatic_blade" title="Prismatic blade">prismatic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bone_tool" title="Bone tool">Bone tool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bow_drill" title="Bow drill">Bow drill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burin_(lithic_flake)" title="Burin (lithic flake)">Burin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canoe#History" title="Canoe">Canoe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oar" title="Oar">Oar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pesse_canoe" title="Pesse canoe">Pesse canoe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chopper_(archaeology)" title="Chopper (archaeology)">Chopper</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chopping_tool" title="Chopping tool">tool</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleaver_(Stone_Age_tool)" title="Cleaver (Stone Age tool)">Cleaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denticulate_tool" title="Denticulate tool">Denticulate tool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire_plough" title="Fire plough">Fire plough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire-saw" title="Fire-saw">Fire-saw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammerstone" title="Hammerstone">Hammerstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knife" title="Knife">Knife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microlith" title="Microlith">Microlith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quern-stone" title="Quern-stone">Quern-stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racloir" title="Racloir">Racloir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rope" title="Rope">Rope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scraper_(archaeology)" title="Scraper (archaeology)">Scraper</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grattoir_de_c%C3%B4t%C3%A9" title="Grattoir de côté">side</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stone_tool" title="Stone tool">Stone tool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tally_stick#Paleolithic_tally_sticks" title="Tally stick">Tally stick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_weapons#Copper_Age" title="History of weapons">Weapons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wheel" title="Wheel">Wheel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bronocice_pot" title="Bronocice pot">illustration</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Architecture434" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_architecture" title="History of architecture">Architecture</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Ceremonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kiva" title="Kiva">Kiva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyramid" title="Pyramid">Pyramid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menhir" title="Menhir">Standing stones</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Megalith" title="Megalith">megalith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stone_row" title="Stone row">row</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonehenge" title="Stonehenge">Stonehenge</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Dwellings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_architecture" title="Neolithic architecture">Neolithic architecture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_long_house" title="Neolithic long house">long house</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_megalith_architecture" title="British megalith architecture">British megalith architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_megalith_architecture" title="Nordic megalith architecture">Nordic megalith architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burdei" title="Burdei">Burdei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave" title="Cave">Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliff_dwelling" title="Cliff dwelling">Cliff dwelling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dugout_(shelter)" title="Dugout (shelter)">Dugout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hut" title="Hut">Hut</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quiggly_hole" title="Quiggly hole">Quiggly hole</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacal" title="Jacal">Jacal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longhouse" title="Longhouse">Longhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudbrick" title="Mudbrick">Mudbrick</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mehrgarh#Lifestyle_and_technology" title="Mehrgarh">Mehrgarh</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pit-house" title="Pit-house">Pit-house</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navajo_pueblitos" title="Navajo pueblitos">Pueblitos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pueblo" title="Pueblo">Pueblo</a></li> <li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Check_dam" title="Check dam">Check dam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cistern" title="Cistern">Cistern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flush_toilet#History" title="Flush toilet">Flush toilet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reservoir" title="Reservoir">Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Well" title="Well">Well</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Other architecture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Feature_(archaeology)" title="Feature (archaeology)">Archaeological features</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broch" title="Broch">Broch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnt_mound" title="Burnt mound">Burnt mound</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fulacht_fiadh" title="Fulacht fiadh">fulacht fiadh</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Causewayed_enclosure" title="Causewayed enclosure">Causewayed enclosure</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tor_enclosure" title="Tor enclosure">Tor enclosure</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_circular_enclosures_in_Central_Europe" title="Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe">Circular enclosure</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goseck_Circle" title="Goseck Circle">Goseck</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cursus" title="Cursus">Cursus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henge" title="Henge">Henge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thornborough_Henges" title="Thornborough Henges">Thornborough</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megalithic_architectural_elements" title="Megalithic architectural elements">Megalithic architectural elements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midden" title="Midden">Midden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_oldest_extant_buildings" title="List of oldest extant buildings">Oldest extant buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timber_circle" title="Timber circle">Timber circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timber_trackway" class="mw-redirect" title="Timber trackway">Timber trackway</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Track" title="Sweet Track">Sweet Track</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Arts_and_culture434" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_art" title="Prehistoric art">Arts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Archaeological_culture" title="Archaeological culture">culture</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Artifact_(archaeology)" title="Artifact (archaeology)">Material goods</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basket_weaving" title="Basket weaving">Baskets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beadwork" title="Beadwork">Beadwork</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bed#History" title="Bed">Beds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalcolithic" title="Chalcolithic">Chalcolithic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_clothing_and_textiles" title="History of clothing and textiles">Clothing/textiles</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_clothing_and_textiles_technology" title="Timeline of clothing and textiles technology">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_cosmetics" title="History of cosmetics">Cosmetics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Stone_Age" title="Middle Stone Age">Glue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_hide_materials" title="History of hide materials">Hides</a> 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href="/wiki/History_of_painting#Pre-history" title="History of painting">painting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pigment#History" title="Pigment">pigment</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megalithic_art" title="Megalithic art">Megalithic art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petroform" title="Petroform">Petroform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petroglyph" title="Petroglyph">Petroglyph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrosomatoglyph" title="Petrosomatoglyph">Petrosomatoglyph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pictogram" title="Pictogram">Pictogram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rock_art" title="Rock art">Rock art</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rock_cupule" title="Rock cupule">Rock cupule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stone_carving" title="Stone carving">Stone carving</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sculpture#Prehistoric_periods" title="Sculpture">Sculpture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_menhir" title="Statue menhir">Statue menhir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stone_circle" title="Stone circle">Stone 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