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Pech Merle Cave

<pmerle-img1.html> Pech Merle cave is in the south of France, department
Lot, 280 m high on the eastern slope of the hill of the same name. Pech
Merle was discovered in 1922 by two teenagers, H. David and A. Duterte.
It is the main element of a system, consisting of the neighbouring
caves. The average width of its galleries is 10 m and the height of the
ceilings is often from 5 to 10 m. It lies in two levels but the
paintings are seen only in the first one; total length of the painted
walls is 300 m. The paintings include painted and graphic depictions of
animals and different signs. Besides, there are <pmerle-img3.html>
<pmerle-img2.html> anthropomorphic figures too, some of them are rather
realistic. On the whole there are about 700 depictions on the cave
walls. But the traces of prehistoric peoples are not only on the walls
of the cave: imprints of children's feet, fragments of charcoal, the
remains of a deer shoulder- blade and three silicic tools: a burin, a
lamp and a shaped stone. All these finds may be dated to the Upper
Palaeolithic. A small number of finds and other traces, left by a man on
the cave floor testifies to the that it was not intended for a long
inhabitation and was visited rather seldom, only in connection with some
ritual actions.

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