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Chauvet Cave

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: cave, cavern, UWHS

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France contains the earliest known and best preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, dating from the Upper Paleolithic. The cave was discovered on December 18, 1994, and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on June 22, 2014.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/165753155

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
44.3881219, 4.4161408

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Chauvet Cave (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Place type:
cave

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Wikidata Chauvet Cave (Q374096)

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Chauvet Cave: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/165753155> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/165753155 |title=Places: 165753155 (Chauvet Cave) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 30, 2024 10:39 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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