Transcript Lascaux PPTX

Lascaux Cave
One of the
World’s
Artistic
Archaeological
Wonders
17 kya
Lascaux Cave Landscape
southwestern France
near the Vézère River
(say, VIS-air)
Lascaux Cave
A Teenage Discovery in 1940
Painted
Gallery
Painted Gallery
Entrance
(stag)
Painted Gallery
back wall
(bison)
Great Hall of the Bulls
Great Hall of
Great Hall of the Bulls
Main Gallery
Main Gallery
Black Cow Panel & quadrangular signs
Main Gallery’s end & shaft
Scene of Dead Man,
Shaft of the Dead Man
Visiting scholars at Lascaux Cave 1940
Abbé Henri Breuil: “…a new cave-art sanctuary has been found…”
Lascaux Cave – post WWII Tourist Attraction
Excess carbon dioxide,
from visitors’ breath, caused deterioration of paintings by 1955…
…condensation on walls corroded on rock faces, leading to moss and algae.
Lascaux closed to the public in 1963
Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux
Conservation at Lascaux
2001
colonies of microrganisms , mushrooms, bacteria
developed on rock edges and floor.
* fungicides, antibiotics IMMEDIATELY used to contain
the problem.
Culture Gouv, France; Photo: MCC/DRAC Aquitane/Grotte de Lascaux
1980 Life Size Copy of Lascaux Under Construction
Construction of cement shell across a wire mesh.
This created the skin of the lifesize replica of Lascaux Cave.
The shell corresponds exactly in shape to the interior of the original.
Projecting images from original
onto replica wall of Lascaux Cave
Lascaux II - open to the public since 1983
Cosquer Cave, France 30 kya
Cave entrance was not underwater between 19-29 kya
(drop in sea levels during late Pleistocene)
Bradshaw Foundation
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/cosquer/
Cosquer Cave
“It is interesting to see how the same information can
lead to such completely different results.”
Lawrence Robbins 1983:58