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Grotte de Pech Merle

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The horses were painted ~25,000 BC.  You can see where the artist used the shape of the rock to define the horse's head on the right.

The spots and the inverse hand prints were made by a method of spitting the ink from the mouth (through the hand for the spots, on the hand for the hand prints).

This picture is a photo of a postcard (look at the printing artifacts if you zoom in) because they had some stupid rule about how taking pictures would ruin the science or something silly like that, but was likely implemented to keep people from accidentally using flashes. 

Still a VERY cool experience to see things so old, even with the no-pictures rule. 

Grotte de Pech Merle, Cabrerets, France.

The rest of my France Pictures
Image size
3319x1988px 3.67 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Shutter Speed
1/200 second
Aperture
F/4.5
Focal Length
22 mm
ISO Speed
640
Date Taken
Dec 30, 2015, 12:17:53 AM
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