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Pair-non-Pair cave

Pair-non-Pair cave - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Pair-non-Pair Cave is located near the village of Prignac-et-Marcamps, Aquitaine:Gironde (33) department in France. Only discovered in 1881 it is known for remarkable prehistoric parietal engravings - petroglyphic representations of wild animals (horses, ibexes, cervidae, bovines and mammoths), "which rank among the most ancient examples of art made by prehistoric" humans, dating back to between 30,000 and 25,000 BP, the Aurignacian cultural period of the Upper Paleolithic. Read more on Wikipedia

• type: ancient site
• date from: Upper Paleolithic
• official website: http://www.pair-non-pair.fr/en/

Source: en.wikipedia.org