<< Our Photo Pages >> Grotte de Cussac - Cave or Rock Shelter in France in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24)
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Grotte de CussacCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 1.599 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Bergerac Nearest Village: Le Buisson-de-Cadoui
Latitude: 44.837000N Longitude: 0.858000E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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The find, at Cussac, in the valley of the Dordogne, is regarded as almost as important as the celebrated Lascaux cave paintings in the same area. This latest discovery was made by Marc Delluc, an amateur archaeologist in September, but the richness of his finds were not known until yesterday. French anthropologists said the site was important because it contained "monumental" drawings of animals in friezes of up to 25 yards long. These are sketches rather than paintings more primitive, almost certainly older than the Lascaux pictures and perhaps up to 37,000 years old.
The caves also contain erotic drawings of women, which have been found previously only in the caverns discovered in 1994 in the Ardèche region.
The caverns, which extend for a total of more than half a mile, are thought to contain up to 200 separate drawings.
Read more in THe Independent. IMPORTANT NOTE: Site believed to be near this position.
Note: Erotic cave paintings could be 37,000 years old
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