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First absolute dating of Palaeolithic paintings in the Dordogne
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The CNRS researcher Ina Reiche explains how these drawings, made with coal and not with iron oxides and manganese as we thought, question our prehistoric knowledge of the region and open the door to a dating of these works.
Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Font-de-Gaume aux Eyzies Cave is one of the jewels of parietal art.
A surprising discovery in Font-de-Gaume reveals the use of charcoal, allowing precise dating of works and questioning the previous estimates Thanks to the use of
A team led by a researcher from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has achieved a milestone in prehistoric archaeology by confirming by absolute dating the age of several parietal representations of the Font-de-Gaume cave, located in Dordogne, France. The results, which are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy [...]
First absolute dating of Palaeolithic paintings in the Dordogne
A research team led by a CNRS1 researcher has for the first time accurately determined the age of the cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume (Les Eyzies) in Dordogne (southwestern France), according to work to be published* on 9 March 2026 in PNAS. It had previously been impossible to precisely date the Palaeolithic cave art in the region, including... Read more »
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