Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) aux Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

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Photo du Monument Historique Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) situé à Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

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24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil - France

Code Insee de la commune : 24172
Dordogne [24] - Périgueux - Aquitaine - Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Adresse approximative issue des coordonnées GPS (latitude et longitude) :
9000 F Commarque 24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

Eléments protégés :
La grotte (cad. B2 374) : classement par arrêté du 3 juillet 1902

Périodes de construction :
Paléolithique moyen;Paléolithique supérieur

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Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Entrance of the cave Font-de-Gaume, France

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Falesia di Font de Gaume, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogna, Francia

Object location44° 56′ 12″ N, 1° 01′ 37″ E View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 44.936667; 1.026944

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Approaching the entrance to the Font-de-Gaume cave in Dordogne.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: General vue of Font-de-Gaume visitor center.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Deutsch: Vor dem Eingang zur Grotte de Font-de-Gaume bei Les Eyzies-de-Tayac

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Cro-Magnon artists painting woolly mammoths in Font-de-Gaume, AMNH.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English:

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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural HistorySherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural HistoryNatural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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reat sabre-toothtiger, one of the host of northern animals that invaded the southerncontinent upon its union with the northern world, and swept before themto extinction most of its ancient inhabitants. The principal exhibits on the north side of the hall are the mammothsand mastodons and the series of skulls showing the evolution of theWarren elephant. The first skeleton is the Long-Jawed Mastodon Mastodon 0f ^jie Pliocene, a predecessor of the true Mastodon in NorthAmerica. The Warren Mastodon is a classic specimen. It wasfound near Newburgh, N. Y., in 1846, and is the finest specimen of itskind that has ever been discovered. Next to it is a fine skeleton of themammoth; portions of skin, hair and other fragments of a mammothcarcass discovered in Alaska are also shown. While modern elephantsare confined to portions of Asia and Africa, fossil remains of elephantsand mastodons show that, at one time or another in the past, they werefound over the greater part of the northern hemisphere.
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HALL OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS 111 Around the walls is a series of paintings by Charles R. Knight,portraying some of the more striking animals that were contemporarywith early man in Europe and America, and whose skeletons are shownbelow. Here are the Great Ground Sloths, the Woolly Rhinoceros, theMammoth and Mastodon and the strange moose-like Cervalces. (See Handbook No. 4, Animals of the Past, and Guide Leaflet No. 62,Mammoths and Mastodons.) Passing through the East Corridor we come to the Southeast Wing Southeast WingOSBORN HALL OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS Fossil Mammals of the Tertiary Period A particular feature of this hall is the wonderful series in the firstalcove on the right showing the evolution of the horse. The Museum isEvolution justly proud of this collection, which is one of the mostof the complete series of fossil horse skeletons in the world, and contains two skeletons of Eohippus, the little four-toeddawn horse, and numerous other unique specimens. As shown by skele-tons of

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Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Prehistoric artwork of many bison and other animals. Very fluid.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Español: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. Mapa de la cueva

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: FIG. I. Bison painted in Ochre.

FIG. 2. Reindeer partly painted and partly incised.
Specimens of Painted Animals from the Cave of Font-de-Gaume (1/1). (After MM. Capitan and Breuil.) To face p. 224.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Primitive painted outlines of animals from the cavern walls of Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne, attributed by Breuil to the early Aurignacian. The outlines represent the horse, ibex, cave-bear, wild cattle, and reindeer. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Outline of one of the bison in the Galerie des Fresques at Font-de-Gaume, showing the preliminary etching or engraving preparatory to the polychrome fresco painting. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Early painting. Galloping horse of the Celtic or of the steppe type painted in black and white, from a wall of the cavern of Font-de-Gaume. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Español: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. León o pantera

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Español: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. Entrada de la cueva.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Español: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. Bisonte

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Español: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. Lobo

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Español: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. Rinoceronte lanudo

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Español: Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. Reno polícromo

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Outlines of a lioness and a small group of horses of the Celtic or Arab type, a delicate wall engraving in the Diverticule final of the cavern of Font-de-Gaume. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Engraved outlines and hair underlying the painting of one of the mammoths, from the wall of the Galerie des Fresques, Font-de-Gaume. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Polychrome painting of wolf in the Font-de-Gaume cavern.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Deutsch: Les Eyzies-de-Tayac ( Dordogne ). Musée national de Préhistoire: Schädel eines Höhlenbären ( 35.000 v. Chr, ) aus der Höhle von Font-de-Gaume.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: FIG. I. Bison painted in Ochre.

FIG. 2. Reindeer partly painted and partly incised.
Specimens of Painted Animals from the Cave of Font-de-Gaume (1/1). (After MM. Capitan and Breuil.) [To face p. 224.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: Plan of a portion of the left wall decoration in the Galerie des Fresques at Font-de-Gaume, showing reindeer and the procession of bison. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: FIG. 2. Reindeer partly painted and partly incised.

Specimens of Painted Animals from the Cave of Font-de-Gaume (1/1). (After MM. Capitan and Breuil.) To face p. 224.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: 'Tectiforms'—schematic drawings in lines and dots believed to represent huts and larger shelters built of logs and covered with hides. From the walls of the cavern of Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Upper palaeolithic wall painting showing wolf. Cave at Font-de-Gaume.

Wellcome Images
Keywords: prehistoric art; Archaeology

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - English: The woolly rhinoceros, painted in red ochre with shading and partial representation of the hair, in the cavern of Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne. Attributed by Breuil to the late Aurignacian. Possibly Magdalenian. After Breuil.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Français : Font-de-Gaume, entrée de la grotte (photo p 554bis), à 20 m au-dessus de la vallée, près du haut de l'escarpement.

Grotte de Font-de-Gaume (grotte du Sourd) - Window transparencies - Cave paintings Altamira and Font-de Gaume.

Wellcome Images
Keywords: Wellcome Exhibitions; Prehistory

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Dernière mise à jour de la fiche Monumentum : 2023-06-01

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