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In 1991, A Professional Diver Named Henri Cosquer Discovered A Wealth Of Prehistoric Art In A Cave Near Marseilles, France. The Opening To The Cave, Once Several Miles Inland From The Mediterranean, Became Submerged When The Sea Began To Rise At The End Of The Last Ice Age, About 12,000 Years Ago. Since That Time, No Human Had Entered This Deep Cavern Or Seen The Paintings And Engravings Of Animals, Human Hands, And Signs That Cover The Walls And Ceilings Until Cosquer Swam Cautiously Up The Flooded Entrance Passage. News Of Cosquer's Extraordinary Find Flashed Around The World. The French Ministry Of Culture Immediately Sent Two Eminent Archaeologists, Jean Clottes And Jean Courtin, To Study The Cave. Assisted By Teams Of Specialists, They Carried Out Two Diving Missions To The Site, In 1991 And 1992. This Book Describes What They Found And Provides The First Complete Photographic Documentation Of This Incredible Site, One Of The Major Decorated Caves Of Europe. Because Charcoal And Charcoal Pigment Were Found In Such Abundance At The Site, And Because The Archaeological Context Was Undisturbed, Cosquer Is Now One Of The Most Thoroughly And Firmly Dated Paleolithic Caves In The Wo

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Author

Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin

Publisher

Henry N. Abrams, Inc., Publisher

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810940338

Category

history

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Ancient History

Rating

4.7 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14