Volp caves
Coordinates: 43 ° 1 ′ 56 ″ N , 1 ° 12 ′ 8 ″ E
The Volp Caves are three of the best-preserved Stone Age caves in France of the Franco-Cantabrian cave art . You are in the commune of Montesquieu-Avantès in the Ariège department , on the estate of Count Robert Bégouën on the river Volp . The caves have not been open to the public since their discovery in 1912/14. The Count's family believed , for example, at the Lascaux Cave that extremely fragile artifacts, paintings, engravings and sculptures would be destroyed.
The three Volp caves are:
- Cave of Tuc d'Audoubert (Grotte du Tuc d'Audoubert, also "Tuc Cave", untouched, 1912)
- Three Brothers Cave (Grotte des Trois-Frères, untouched, 1914)
- Enlène Cave (Grotte d'Enlène)
Researches
- Andreas Pastoors , archaeologist from the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann; s. CV Andreas Pastoors
French cave art experts:
literature
- Marion Daum: Bovine representations in the Magdalenian - a stylistic comparison of the "art pariétal" and the "art mobilier" from the caves Grotte d'Enlène, Les-Trois-Fréres, Le Tuc d'Audoubert and Niaux. Master's thesis with L. Reisch (February 27, 1995).