Lascaux cave paintings replica workshop. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963,with the Lascaux II replica opening nearby in 1983. Here,a restorer,in a workshop in Montignac,is testing the bamboo projection method of forming a hand print outline (example shown at right). The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France,around 17,000 years old,were painted by Cro-Magnon man,an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens),using red,brown and yellow ochre,and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010 |