TY  - JOUR
T1  - Chauvet cave: The panel of horses
AU  - Harris JC
Y1  - 2011/09/01
N1  - 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.114
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 869
EP  - 870
VL  - 68
IS  - 9
N2  - 
On December 18, 1994, three French friends, Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire, all experienced spelunkers, discovered a decorated cave in the side of a limestone cliff between the Cévennes and Rhone valleys at Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche, France, above the old river bed. Inside they found what is believed to be the world's oldest known representational art.1 The 3 discovers were engaged in a systematic in-depth exploration of the caves in this region of France and had drawn up an inventory of promising archeological sites not previously visited. The region is a nature reserve where the landscape, with its magnificent natural arch over the river bed, the plants and trees (lavender, heath, evergreen oaks, box trees, and Spanish junipers), and animals all are federally protected.

SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.114
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.114
ER  -