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120 cave paintings discovered in the Alpes-Maritimes

2023-02-01T18:19:50.418Z


STORY - The crossing of several data suggests that they were executed around 2000 BC Warriors brandishing daggers, combat or funeral scenes, deities, a celestial vault... This is an exceptional discovery which the Institute of Prehistory and Archeology Alpes Méditerranée (Ipaam) has just reported in its latest publication. . Last August, in a steep area of ​​Valdeblore, a small town in the hinterland of Nice linking the Vésubie and Tinée valleys, this Nice association identified o


Warriors brandishing daggers, combat or funeral scenes, deities, a celestial vault... This is an exceptional discovery which the Institute of Prehistory and Archeology Alpes Méditerranée (Ipaam) has just reported in its latest publication. .

Last August, in a steep area of ​​Valdeblore, a small town in the hinterland of Nice linking the Vésubie and Tinée valleys, this Nice association identified one hundred and twenty rock paintings executed at the end of the Neolithic era, there are four thousand years.

This discovery brings the department

"into the big leagues of post-glacial paintings"

, says Claude Salicis, president of Ipaam.

And the discoverers are inhabitants of Valdeblore, in this case the Pietri family well known to judo enthusiasts since the father, Marcel, like the son, Loïc, are champions of the discipline.

In their spare time, they are also great crawlers.

Last summer, on the occasion of yet another…

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Source: lefigaro

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