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<< Our Photo Pages >> Grotte du Pape - Cave or Rock Shelter in France in Aquitaine:Landes (40)

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Natural PlacesSite Name: Grotte du Pape
Country: France Département: Aquitaine:Landes (40) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Dax  Nearest Village: Brassempouy
Latitude: 43.629427N  Longitude: 0.71862W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Grotte du Pape submitted by thecaptain : The "Dame de Brassempouy". A female head carved from ivory, found in the Grotte du Pape near to the village of Brassempouy in 1894. The figure is only 3.6 cm big, and is thought to be the oldest representation of a human face, dating to almost 30,000 years ago. The figure normally resides in the St Germain-en-Laye prehistory museum, but is seen here in an exhibition of Women in Art throug... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave near the village of Brassempouy, discovered in 1880, within which finds from 50,000 years of human occupation have been extracted, including the world famous "Dame de Brassempouy".


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Grotte du Pape submitted by Flickr : Extrait de : " L'art pendant l'Age du renne." / Edouard Piette. - Paris : Masson & Cie. , 1907. Pl. 70. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Grotte du Pape submitted by Flickr : Brassempouy - Musée de la dame - La Dame de Brassempouy La MAISON de la DAME de BRASSEMPOUY Voyage en Préhistoire... il y a 25.000 ans BRASSEMPOUY, Site Majeur d'Aquitaine A Brassempouy, à la fin du XIXe siècle, fut découverte une petite cavité, dénommée la Grotte du Pape. C'est là que la Dame de Brassempouy, une statuette d'ivoire de mammouth, de 3.6 cm de hauteur , sc... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grotte du Pape
Grotte du Pape submitted by Flickr : Extrait de : " L'art pendant l'Age du renne." / Edouard Piette. - Paris : Masson & Cie. , 1907. Pl. 75. Art mobilier en ivoire. Brassempouy, grotte du Pape, près de l'entrée. Collections Piette et de Laporterie / J. Pilloy Image copyright: POLE INTERNATIONAL DE LA PREHISTOIRE, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Grotte du Pape submitted by durhamnature : Statuette of La Dame, from "Introduction to Prehistoric Art" via archive.org Site in Aquitaine:Landes (40) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Grotte du Pape submitted by durhamnature : Finds and rock art from the cave, from "Der Diluviale Menchen..." via archive.org Site in Aquitaine:Landes (40) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Grotte du Pape submitted by durhamnature : Horse head on bone, image from "Men of the Old Stone Age" via archive.org Site in Aquitaine:Landes (40) France

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Re: Grotte du Pape by TheCaptain on Sunday, 01 April 2007
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Some details of the history of finds within this cave can be found here .
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