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...would have eventually arisen without it. "Even if we've made errors," he says, "it's almost exclusively here in France that scientific research on cave conservation has been done, and our policies are rigorous." And ever more so. In 1994, 30,000-year-old paintings were discovered in Chauvet cave, recalibrating the timescale of cave painting. Only researchers are allowed in, and in light of Chauvet's fragility - and Lascaux's experience - that is unlikely ever to change...
...Carbon dating has been recalibrated in recent decades to give archaeologists strong certainties about the ages of key artifacts for Europe's prehistory, from the drawings in France's Chauvet Cave (32,000 years old), to possibly Neanderthal milk teeth found in Cavallo, Italy (31,000 years old), to the Minoan civilization on Crete (3,700 years old). That means there is always the prospect of a physical discovery - an agricultural site that doesn't fit in time or space, say - that can blow existing theories out of the water...
...Near France's Ardeche River, explorers discover the Chauvet cave, whose paintings are believed to be more than 30,000 years...
...REMBRANDT ON THE ROCKS: The discovery of dazzling drawings of rhinoceroses and other animals in a French cave suggests that prehistoric art did not mature in a simple linear fashion but may have been punctuated by the influence of individual geniuses. The images in the Chauvet cave date from 30,000 years ago, 12 to 18 millenniums before comparable ones at Lascaux, in France, and Altamira, in Spain, and much earlier than anyone thought possible for such realistic portraits...
...cave-rich Ardeche region may not be finished yielding treasures. Some 200 painted caves have already been found in the area. As the Chauvet cave has shown -- twice so far -- it is premature to conclude that there are no big surprises left...