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...walk has helped preserve the cave," says Marie-Odile Plassard, a Rouffignac guide. "And we've never modified the air circulation like they did in Lascaux." Yanik Le Guillou, curator of cave paintings in the Midi-Pyrenees region which includes the caves of Niaux, Gargas and Pech Merle, acknowledges that Lascaux has been a "detonator of concerns for other caves," but that those concerns 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of Lascaux | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

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