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THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest interest. A large pine tree had blown down, and some French boys ...

Below are 12 things you should know about the cave paintings at Lascaux. Four schoolboys stumbled onto the Lascaux cave system while chasing their dog. Dordogne is rife with decorated caves.

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Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

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In fact, at Lascaux the influx of visitors began to degrade the paintings, prompting the construction of an entirely new cave of precisely painted replicas for tourists.