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Unexplored caves are promised lands for French prehistorians. Armed with the tools of the diggers' trade (acetylene lamps, hammers, ropes and shovels), Robert rushed to the Dordogne estate, took with him Professor Louis Nougier of the University of Toulouse. For three hours the two scientists hacked and shoveled their way into the half-blocked cave. "We were about to abandon our search." says...
...Cave of Mammoths. At Poitiers, the 15th International Prehistoric Congress was told of the discovery of a highly decorated cave in central France. Early this summer Remain Robert, President of the Prehistoric Society of the Ariege department, got a letter from friends in Lyons urging him to explore a cave on their country estate in the Dordogne department...
Robert, "when suddenly we discovered on the ceiling above us two superb drawings of mammoths." Before they left the cave that evening, they had counted drawings of 61 mammoths, twelve bison, eight goats, six horses and four rhinoceroses. On the floor were many flint tools, some of them unfinished...
Greatest Mystery? The mysteries posed by U.S. caves alone are enough to tweak the curiosity of any red-blooded sleuth with a weakness for natural history. Is there one vast water-filled cavern system that arcs from Kentucky to Missouri under the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers? (The presence of one distinct species of blind fish in widely dispersed caves in the region implies such a linkage.) Why is Texas' Kiser Cave full of carbon dioxide? (Three airmen, equipped with oxygen tanks, almost died trying in vain to find the answer.) Do cave-dwelling bats have a burial ground...
Spelunkers, outfitted with mountaineering and diving equipment, delving ever deeper into the earth (unofficial world-record descent: a depth of 3,232 ft. into France's Gouffre Berger cave near Grenoble), are pushing back the last frontier. But fast as they push, the awesome unknown seems to recede before them. What is known about caves bows before the murk that is not known about them...