Cave painting hand print, Upper Palaeolithic, Magdalenian Culture, Midi-Pyrenees, France

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Pech Merle is a cave which opens onto a hillside at Cabrerets in the Lot département of the Occitania region in France, about 32 km by road east of Cahors. It is one of the few prehistoric cave painting sites in France that remain open to the general public.

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Size: 5199px × 3513px
Location: Tech Merle cave, Cabrerets,Lot, Occitania, France
Photo credit: © Dominic Robinson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: age, animal, archaeology, art, cave, early, france, hand, human, man, merle, mesolithic, painting, paintings, palaeolithic, parietal, pech, prehistoric, prehistory, print, rock, stone, wall, work