in which city would find Lascaux, a UNESCO world heritage site with over 600wall paintings representing large animals, local and contemporary Fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the upper paleolithic time?
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Montignac, in southwestern FRANCE.
Lascaux is in Montignac, it is a UNESCO world heritage site with over 600wall paintings representing large animals, local and contemporary Fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the upper paleolithic time.
The entrance to Lascaux was discovered on the 12 of September 1940 by an 18 year old named Marcel Ravidat.
The site was inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in the year 1979.
Lascox cave Prehistoric sites of Wazere Valley (France) and decorated caves © UNESCO popular for Paleolithic cave paintings, set up in a campus of caves located Dordogan region of southwestern France, because their excellent quality, size, complexity and antiquity. Estimated up to 20,000 years, paintings are mainly of large animals, which are once native to the area. Lascox is situated in Wezere Valley, where numerous additional decked up caves have been found since the beginning of the 20th century (for example, Les Constellals and fonts-de-Gaum in 1901, Burnfill in 1902). Lascock is a complex cave with many areas (Hall of the Bulls, Passage Gallery), it was discovered on September 12, 1940 and in December of that year statutory historical monument protection was given. In 1979, many decorated caves including the Vesser Valley - including the Lascox Cave - were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. But these haunted beautiful prehistoric caves are in danger in pictures. Lately, in Paris, furthermore 200 archaeological, anthropologists and other scientists gathered for an unprecedented seminar to discuss the plight of the precious treasures of Lashkoc, and gathered to find an explanation to preserve them for the future. The seminar was led by the French Ministry of Culture and Communications, and it was presided by Dr. Jean Claude.
There are 147 prehistoric sites in the Vazere Valley that belong to the polyolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is especially interesting with a racial and anthropological, as well as its cave paintings, there is also a beauty perspective, especially in the Laskkok cave, whose discoveries were very important for the history of prehistoric art. Hunting acts display certain 100 animal figures, which are distinguished for their expanses, rich colors and lifelong quality.
Units have been recognized in the cave; The Great Hall of the Bulls, The Leather Passage, The Shift of the Dead Man, The Chamber of Engravings, The Painted Gallery, and the Chamber of Fellin. There are about 2,000 figures in the cave, which can be grouped into three main categories - animals, human figures and intangible signals. Most of the major images have been painted on the walls using mineral pigment, although some designs have been planted in stone.
Of animals, the main is equivalent. There are 90 paintings of the stag. Cattle, Bison, Fellin, a bird, a bear, a rhinoceros, and a human are also represented. Out of the most famous images, Hall of the Bulls has four huge, black bulls or orchards. One of the bulls is 17 feet (5.2 meters) long - the largest animal in the cave art has been discovered so far.