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| Grotte Chauvet |
Grotte Chauvet cave is a beautiful painted in the Ardeche region. It has several very large galleries, with more than 300 paintings and engravings dating from the Paleolithic era (between 32,000 and 30,000 years ago). The tables show the rhinoceros, big cats, bears, owls, and mammoths.
Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Christian Hillaire are cavers who have been doing studies caving in the area for several years. Who discovered and explored the cave in December 1994. They named the cave after Jean-Marie Chauvet. When informed the government about the discovery, the archaeologist Jean Clottes immediately conducted a verification visit. And in January of the cave was presented to the public by the Minister of Culture and Francophonie, Jacques Toubon. This is extremely fast, as the cave was discovered just two months earlier. The cave was closed immediately after its discovery, scientists and only approved by the Ministry of Culture were allowed to do research. This is necessary to protect and preserve fragile paintings for future generations. Grotte Chauvet is closed to the public and will remain that way. To meet the public demand for information, many high-quality images have been published in books that were translated into local languages and sold numeropus worldwide. A book published by the three discoverers and Grotte Chauvet paintings called simply shows the most interesting. And there's a very interesting website by Jean Clottes in French and English. See the links section below for more information. In some years, a reproduction can allow visitors to see the cave. This project is planned from mid 1990, but so far no sign of him. They were unable to find out if there are technical problems and finances. In the spring of 2010, the German director Werner Herzog filmed the cave art 3D technology. To protect the cave, the crew access to the cave Herzog was limited to four people, four hours a day for six days. The crew was restricted to wood of 60 cm wide at the floor of the cave, which was installed by scientists immediately after discovery. Only the light that no heat was allowed inside the cave. In fact scientists working in the cave of similar underlying constraints. Documentry movie called The Cave of Forgotten Dreams debuted in September 2010 at the International Film Festival in Toronto and will be in theaters soon. The TV rights of the film are owned by The History Channel.
