Font-de-Gaume

Font-de-Gaume is a cave near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne department of south-west France.

[2] Four days earlier Peyrony had visited the cave at Les Combarelles, a short distance away, with the archaeologist Henri Breuil, where he saw its prehistoric engravings.

[3] Prehistoric people living in the Dordogne Valley first settled in the mouth of Font-de-Gaume around 25,000 BC.

As of 2007, Font-de-Gaume was the only site in France with polychrome cave paintings that is still open to the public.

The rock art in Font-de-Gaume includes depictions of more than 80 bison, approximately 40 horses, and more than 20 mammoths.

Cave entrance
Cro-Magnon artists painting in Font-de-Gaume, by Charles R. Knight