the copy is a very good copy, apparently, and I wouldn't mind seeing one that good if it will preserve the original. I'd really hate to be among those who destroyed it, even accidentally. I'm glad that France is protecting it. I'd love to see the copy.
lol I feel like I've seen a bunch of different cave paintings from many different places all drawing horses fat like that. I can't remember any specific examples, so maybe I'm imagining it.
I've read that humans have had the same intellect, thinking processes for hundreds of thousands of years as we humans do today. Imagine how different it would be to be born in such a prehistoric time period.
It's amazing because they were just as complex, they had rich cultures and customs and technology. They had medicines from herbs and funguses and some of them were actually rather effective. They had art, music, dance, their own science. Just their materials were natural and decomposed, the way it should be.
Maybe it was mushies or maybe he just killed his first mammoth with his bare hands. Or heck maybe it was an ancient mom who boiled her first poached egg
Or maybe the bull is the constellation Taurus and they believed the ancient ones traveled through solar flare stargates. This could explain the solstice alignments at every monolith.
The caves are banned from letting the public view it due to carbon fading the paintings away. Only one man is allowed to enter so he can record the carbon levels in the cave.
Altamira in Spain has the same preservation policy - a separate cave is a replica made for tourists. Actually getting a sound byte from the English speaking tour guide really helps -for he has all the current info about the place the Magdalenians occupy in the evolution of our species...,They are considered modern humans. And there is no doubt that they walked this area at the same time as Neanderthals - they have found Neanderthal genes in the Near East.
I really hope to see this one day! That reproduction looks amazing, but I would die of happiness to get into the original, if only for 5 minutes! Somebody's going in every so often to check on things-if I hit the lottery, I'd try to find out who that is, & offer them any price to go with them!
why, you dont need to go in there, it needs to be protected, the reproduction looks identical. the original needs to be safe not just available to whoever has the most money to offer.
Fascinating!!! I've always wanted to travel to Lascaux and surrounding areas to see all this with my own eyes. --- It would be great if someone could go into the real cave with a camera and also take LIDAR info to show the real thing online ... some day maybe?
@@dawngw26 There is a very important connection between the reigning family in Monaco (the Grimaldis) and the preservation and education about the cave paintings in France...,the family has been the main funding behind original hand drawn copies of this art and published valuable books of these drawings.
It has been suggested that Neandertals, as well as modern humans, may have painted caves. Hoffmann et al. used uranium-thorium dating of carbonate crusts to show that cave paintings from three different sites in Spain must be older than 64,000 years. These paintings are the oldest dated cave paintings in the world. Importantly, they predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe by at least 20,000 years ‼, which suggests that they must be of Neandertal origin. These 3 places are: 1. La Pasiega (Cantabria), Northern Spain. 2. a hand stencil in Maltravieso (Extremadura), Central-Western Spain. 3. red-painted speleothems in Ardales (Andalusia), Southern Spain.
Awesome! Truly amazing. It's like a window into life 20,000 years ago. Sure, it's a replica, but a very well done replica, and I'd rather have the originals preserved than risk ruining them just to appease my own selfish skepticism. Don't let the Christians see this, though. A book about talking snakes, talking bushes and a wooden ocean liner that could hold all of the world's animals, and most Christians are likely to think THIS is a hoax...oh, the irony...
Interesting painting. I am surprised at how high the painting was on the ceiling, and that just causes greater admiration for their primitive (or not so primitive) culture. GO HUMANITIES!
They sure look amazing. I haven't been there yet but I'd really love to visit that cave in France 🇫🇷 sometime in the future. It became a popular tourist attraction after the World War II but it has been closed to the public since 1963 due to the breath and sweat of visitors created carbon dioxide and humidity that would destroy the paintings. So nobody is ever allowed to visit that cave in France 🇫🇷 unfortunately but they can only visit the replica one known as Lascaux II. Lascaux has become one of the forbidden places in the world where no one is ever allowed to visit. Those cave paintings are about 17,000 years old. Anyway greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
A magical video don't you think? These people were living a very simple life like we do today. Just more simple, yet they might have been more complex than we think.
The Lascaux cave was made by prehistoric people,one is bigger than a giraffe, it was closed becuase people's temperature was too much pressure for the paintings,so they closed it and made a art gallery of a copy of all of the paintings.
I am guessing you are joking...there were no French people then...no Spanish people, no German people, just people people. There is beautiful paleolithic art in both South Africa and in Australia. We just usually only see the European material for some reason. The art in Australian caves is very different, more inward, and spiritual.
No issues at all...have done many lectures on the area, going back to the remarkable Atapuerca caves in Spain, paleolithic art in Spain and France, the lives of ancient humans in the area between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago. Lots of fun...just no nationalities then, still hunter gatherers. Fascinating stuff.
And so these become interesting as we look at pre history and understand the human capability and the possible spiritual or religious meaning of these then. To go further we can explore social structure language origin and environment supply and demand say to dig deeper into those possible meanings.
Have Forensic Scientists examined the walls for ancient DNA traces which had to have been also preserved . The artists would have been leaning on the walls as they worked. Also with the multiple Stencil handprint artworks found from Spain to France to Argentina, some DNA traces must also have been preserved given how well the charcoal /earth pigments have survived the last 30,000 years. I think that such a project would make for a very exciting study?
they dont allow people in the original cave anymore because people damage the paintings so they made a model and thats where people go now. they want to preserver the original cave
+Noah Rupert NOOOO because they are getting destroyed by (so many people caming in) the air of the caves changes and mold are detroying them inside. The same thing is happening with the caves in Spain.
The image of the largest bull has some dots behind it which makes me think of Taurus, identified by finding the pliedes/seven sisters and thus the starsign to the left. Also the fact that the coloured part of the image is the only part drawn out in the night sky, the rest just being an outline. Anyone think that there is something to this?
Just been there in the new LASCAUX IV, better than the old Lascaux II replica shown in this video, I am glad they closed the original one... otherwise it would not survive the next 50 years. They added the second large cave, a workshop, and a 3D movie with the latest technology. It's very suggestive,18000 years ago! During the ice age, Europe must have look like Alaska. Extinct bull species, rhinos, wild running horses, a falling horse upside down, a mysterious bird man and enigmatic symbols. The shades and the depth of the figures are impressive. Those people were us. I look foreword to see other sites in Europe.
Thank you for this nice video ! If you want to know how Lascaux cave was discovered, watch the video the Discovery of Lascaux cave on Videoguide Nouvelle-Aquitaine channel. There is also another video about the original Lascaux cave and its reproductions (Lascaux II, Lascaux III, Lascaux IV).
Yes, of course. We would never think that truth is important, nor would we ever think that, if it really happened like that that others might say so, too. Or that allegory and story--every story--have a point. Apparently you haven 't talked seriously with many serious Christians. Please don't sneer until you have the facts. I don't take Rick Steves quite at face value. I used to live in Edmonds, his home town. But I find this video interesting and informative. Now I'll go to church.
One of the most interesting aspects is that the cave went thru several occupations over 20,000 years. Each group adding to the body of work and thus indicating that the purpose and meaning was thus understood for that entire period while we have no idea what the 5000 year old Sphinx is about.
the copy is a very good copy, apparently, and I wouldn't mind seeing one that good if it will preserve the original. I'd really hate to be among those who destroyed it, even accidentally. I'm glad that France is protecting it. I'd love to see the copy.
I went here 1990 it was extrordinary never forgotten it
ok boomer
This is one of my top shows of all time. Rick Steves is fantastic with this show. Thank you very much for decades of enjoyment!
I like the fat horses they drew.
Same xD
lol
I feel like I've seen a bunch of different cave paintings from many different places all drawing horses fat like that.
I can't remember any specific examples, so maybe I'm imagining it.
horses are fat
Saw these as a kid. Incredible.
Im here because of Kurgzgesagt
same here
That French tour guide has a very warm and rich vocal tone! Sounds like a Disney character.
But he reminds me of the crazy "Mi scusi" guy in train on a movie "Euro Trip" LOL
I've read that humans have had the same intellect, thinking processes for hundreds of thousands of years as we humans do today. Imagine how different it would be to be born in such a prehistoric time period.
It's amazing because they were just as complex, they had rich cultures and customs and technology. They had medicines from herbs and funguses and some of them were actually rather effective. They had art, music, dance, their own science. Just their materials were natural and decomposed, the way it should be.
@@Goldenretriever-k8mI agree
These paintings flickered in firelight plus hallucogenic mushrooms = cinema.
Or an ancient medicine man seeing the rain a la brother bear
Maybe it was mushies or maybe he just killed his first mammoth with his bare hands. Or heck maybe it was an ancient mom who boiled her first poached egg
Or maybe the bull is the constellation Taurus and they believed the ancient ones traveled through solar flare stargates. This could explain the solstice alignments at every monolith.
They're even set at an angle similar to a flat screen TV. You could simply recline and enjoy.
From john green’s book!! 😍
The caves are banned from letting the public view it due to carbon fading the paintings away. Only one man is allowed to enter so he can record the carbon levels in the cave.
General G. S. Patton Only scientists are allowed to enter it
@@purplehumanz yes the person who comes in to record the carbon levels is most likely a scientist
I’ve seen the copy and you absolutely could not tell it wasn’t the real thing. It was breathtaking, and I recommend everyone see it
This video really helped me out in my project
Came here from kurzgesagt
You beat me to it
This was quick
samee
I comment on a 20 likes video, knowing i'll be popular soon
omg samee
Yes, my homework
Same
Brobro.... Prometheans unite
Same
what?
I dont get it
i am here because of my artistry class but i find it interesting
Just came from a week in the region and toured Lascaux IV the large replica -- it's absolutely a must-see.
I like the old narration of historic places it gives a more distinct vibe of the place and it's history. Good old days 😀
Altamira in Spain has the same preservation policy - a separate cave is a replica made for tourists. Actually getting a sound byte from the English speaking tour guide really helps -for he has all the current info about the place the Magdalenians occupy in the evolution of our species...,They are considered modern humans. And there is no doubt that they walked this area at the same time as Neanderthals - they have found Neanderthal genes in the Near East.
I really hope to see this one day! That reproduction looks amazing, but I would die of happiness to get into the original, if only for 5 minutes! Somebody's going in every so often to check on things-if I hit the lottery, I'd try to find out who that is, & offer them any price to go with them!
why, you dont need to go in there, it needs to be protected, the reproduction looks identical. the original needs to be safe not just available to whoever has the most money to offer.
Yes, thak you for this...You contine to edcuate me everytime I see one of your clips and shows on PBS, WTTW in Chicago.... Thank you...
Here because of the Antropocene Reviewed book :)
Me too :)
@@mariamaj4585 DFTBA :)
This helps with my project in school
Thank you, Sir!
these doodads? fascinating.
After watching kurzgesagt video about lascaux cave art
Me too
Me too
Fascinating!!! I've always wanted to travel to Lascaux and surrounding areas to see all this with my own eyes. --- It would be great if someone could go into the real cave with a camera and also take LIDAR info to show the real thing online ... some day maybe?
also, I'm here because I've been following the Clan of the Cave Bear audiobook series here on TH-cam.
@@dawngw26 There is a very important connection between the reigning family in Monaco (the Grimaldis) and the preservation and education about the cave paintings in France...,the family has been the main funding behind original hand drawn copies of this art and published valuable books of these drawings.
This is amazing people from thousands of years ago can draw better then me 😂😂😂
They even had bigger tool than you
Wonderful!!!
It has been suggested that Neandertals, as well as modern humans, may have painted caves. Hoffmann et al. used uranium-thorium dating of carbonate crusts to show that cave paintings from three different sites in Spain must be older than 64,000 years. These paintings are the oldest dated cave paintings in the world. Importantly, they predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe by at least 20,000 years ‼, which suggests that they must be of Neandertal origin.
These 3 places are:
1. La Pasiega (Cantabria), Northern Spain.
2. a hand stencil in Maltravieso (Extremadura), Central-Western Spain.
3. red-painted speleothems in Ardales (Andalusia), Southern Spain.
Thanks this really helped me understand.😊
Awesome! Truly amazing. It's like a window into life 20,000 years ago. Sure, it's a replica, but a very well done replica, and I'd rather have the originals preserved than risk ruining them just to appease my own selfish skepticism.
Don't let the Christians see this, though. A book about talking snakes, talking bushes and a wooden ocean liner that could hold all of the world's animals, and most Christians are likely to think THIS is a hoax...oh, the irony...
This is good material for my humanities class. I definitely like the preservation efforts and the replica for tourists.
Interesting painting. I am surprised at how high the painting was on the ceiling, and that just causes greater admiration for their primitive (or not so primitive) culture. GO HUMANITIES!
They sure look amazing. I haven't been there yet but I'd really love to visit that cave in France 🇫🇷 sometime in the future.
It became a popular tourist attraction after the World War II but it has been closed to the public since 1963 due to the breath and sweat of visitors created carbon dioxide and humidity that would destroy the paintings. So nobody is ever allowed to visit that cave in France 🇫🇷 unfortunately but they can only visit the replica one known as Lascaux II.
Lascaux has become one of the forbidden places in the world where no one is ever allowed to visit.
Those cave paintings are about 17,000 years old.
Anyway greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Absolutely fascinating…
I think i'm the only who made it here because of John Green's podcast..
I'm here because of the latest kurzgesagt video with john green lol
Also his book :)
it is the most beautiful thing
Pure awesomeness
this is cool i want to go to lascauxs replica
+Holden Schoone go to the Spanish one.... is as good or better than France.
ok
@@celiayounger9202 In Spain better than Lascaux ?? You must be Spanish to say such a lie ....lol
NO, YOU ARE THE ONE LYING sorry but its true @@litogor
A magical video don't you think?
These people were living a very simple life like we do today. Just more simple, yet they might have been more complex than we think.
Look at these paintings.
Hey class it’s Yohance
Yo
Prehistoric I have in my blood
That makes me prehistoric
This is my homework
Very nice deatination ! Thanks
teacher made me watch
The Lascaux cave was made by prehistoric people,one is bigger than a giraffe, it was closed becuase people's temperature was too much pressure for the paintings,so they closed it and made a art gallery of a copy of all of the paintings.
Its about people talking about the Lascaux's History and the cave paintings.
They found a lamp looking thing and on the inside was combustible animal soot. I saw it on the Lascaux website.
amaziiiing
The Anthropocene Reviewed sent me here.
đang ôn thi THPT QG có bài đọc về hang này thế là mình qua đây xem luôn😍
Apparently, TOEFL has passages on prehistoric art!
Appeared yesterday. Got the passage on these caves in the writing section 1, would you believe it!!
Oooo.ok now I know why french people good with art
I am guessing you are joking...there were no French people then...no Spanish people, no German people, just people people. There is beautiful paleolithic art in both South Africa and in Australia. We just usually only see the European material for some reason. The art in Australian caves is very different, more inward, and spiritual.
+Mollie Brown Geez, someone has jealousy issues. What do you have against ancient europeans?
No issues at all...have done many lectures on the area, going back to the remarkable Atapuerca caves in Spain, paleolithic art in Spain and France, the lives of ancient humans in the area between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago. Lots of fun...just no nationalities then, still hunter gatherers. Fascinating stuff.
Came from the Kurzgesagt video.
Which one?
I wonder how those people protected the cave walls from not being blacked from the smoke, I mean they needed to see it..
Is anyone else here because their social studies teacher assigned this video?
yash
General History of Arts professor sent me here..
Physical Anthropology!
yes
you're teacher is a stoner, Rick Steves is awesome and a cannabis smoker
And so these become interesting as we look at pre history and understand the human capability and the possible spiritual or religious meaning of these then. To go further we can explore social structure language origin and environment supply and demand say to dig deeper into those possible meanings.
Anyone here from Kurzgesagt?
Nope
Homework,yes
Which Kurzgadt video?
incredible
+Alpha Cat77 lol
wow people back then are able to draw better then me!!!!!!!
Yes amongst tons of other things!
Have Forensic Scientists examined the walls for ancient DNA traces which had to have been also preserved . The artists would have been leaning on the walls as they worked. Also with the multiple Stencil handprint artworks found from Spain to France to Argentina, some DNA traces must also have been preserved given how well the charcoal /earth pigments have survived the last 30,000 years. I think that such a project would make for a very exciting study?
Came here because of the online class of CCC
Kurzgesagt
Impressive art.
If the very advanced civilization existed in the past, then they would leave us train tunnels for their public transport.
How did they get up to the roof to paint it?
Ajarn Spencer different from painting and probably had something there to draw on the roof of the cave but we modern humans ruined the ground there
Inadvertently
they dont allow people in the original cave anymore because people damage the paintings so they made a model and thats where people go now.
they want to preserver the original cave
it is good material for my class
That’s why they closed it to get the artifacts out and they don’t want you to see the real drawings
40 Years 2020
yep history teacher sent me this
Bruh i got sent here in 2020 when we were quarantined because of corona.
Thanks Social Studies teacher
No this is not my homework..no my teacher didn't tell me to search it up.
I'm here cause i like stone age and prehistoric stuff
I dont know if the lack of information about the details of the paintings is ignorance or deceiving us.
Who would want to go to a replica, I'd want to see the real thing!
+Noah Rupert NOOOO because they are getting destroyed by (so many people caming in) the air of the caves changes and mold are detroying them inside. The same thing is happening with the caves in Spain.
+Celia Younger YES! In order preserve it, and make it's beauty last, we have to respect it and find another way to still enjoy it :)
The image of the largest bull has some dots behind it which makes me think of Taurus, identified by finding the pliedes/seven sisters and thus the starsign to the left. Also the fact that the coloured part of the image is the only part drawn out in the night sky, the rest just being an outline.
Anyone think that there is something to this?
There are videos about that subject here on youtube.
The knowledge of the forever time (episode 2).
Very interesting!
did you even watch the video? they even showed the oil lamps they had
Sir image
Interesting
Sabertooth deadly tigers
Mammoths
And horses to EAT
BARBECUE
Caucus ⛰ mountain is where the caveman was put genetically inventive on hunting ghosts
The cave was discovered when Marcel Ravidat and his dog Robot were walking in the country. Robot fell into a hole in the ground.
Just been there in the new LASCAUX IV, better than the old Lascaux II replica shown in this video, I am glad they closed the original one... otherwise it would not survive the next 50 years. They added the second large cave, a workshop, and a 3D movie with the latest technology. It's very suggestive,18000 years ago! During the ice age, Europe must have look like Alaska. Extinct bull species, rhinos, wild running horses, a falling horse upside down, a mysterious bird man and enigmatic symbols. The shades and the depth of the figures are impressive. Those people were us. I look foreword to see other sites in Europe.
Looks like Picasso was up to some tricks.
Salt of animal tallow, and no smoke !
Thank you for this nice video ! If you want to know how Lascaux cave was discovered, watch the video the Discovery of Lascaux cave on Videoguide Nouvelle-Aquitaine channel. There is also another video about the original Lascaux cave and its reproductions (Lascaux II, Lascaux III, Lascaux IV).
Me who is here because of 6th grade online classes;
This is none my business they called me over here!
samee ;w;
my ss teacher assigned me this and btw I'm also an army
"Art is not optional"
recently so inspired by cave art...
Yes, of course. We would never think that truth is important, nor would we ever think that, if it really happened like that that others might say so, too. Or that allegory and story--every story--have a point. Apparently you haven 't talked seriously with many serious Christians. Please don't sneer until you have the facts. I don't take Rick Steves quite at face value. I used to live in Edmonds, his home town. But I find this video interesting and informative. Now I'll go to church.
2020 anyone? online classes? 6th grade? Just me okay....
me too
Same but 9th grade
Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cool
I wonder what type of lighting they used back then, to light up the cave. there's no sign of smoke or soot.
Check out Graham Hancock's research
Does anybody know how the drawings in the Lascaux caves in France link food, art, and ritual?
One of the most interesting aspects is that the cave went thru several occupations over 20,000 years. Each group adding to the body of work and thus indicating that the purpose and meaning was thus understood for that entire period while we have no idea what the 5000 year old Sphinx is about.