Français : Montesquieu-Avantès, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France. Entrée de la grotte du Tuc d'Audoubert, qui est aussi la résurgence du Volp. Les fils de Henri Begouën et d'autres gens, avec l'esquif qu'ils utilisaient pour entrer dans la grotte. Photo prise un 20 juillet 1913 ou 1914, la famille fêtant l'anniversaire de la "découverte" de la grotte (c'est-à-dire se ses gravures paléolithiques, commençant le 16 juillet 1912). Émile Cartailhac est présent ce jour-là (voir l'autre photo du même jour dans " category:Grotte du Tuc d'Audoubert ").
Photo tirée de N.C. Nelson,
"European caves and early Man",
The American Museum journal, vol. 15, 1915, p. 239.
English: Montesquieu-Avantès, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France. Entrance to the cave of Tuc d'Audoubert, where the river Volp comes back to the surface. Henri Begouën's sons and other people with the raft they used to enter the cave. Photo taken on July 20th 1913 ou 1914, the Begouën family celebrating the "discovery" of the cave (that is, the discovery of its paleolithic art, starting on July 16, 1912).
Photo taken from N.C. Nelson, "European caves and early Man", The American Museum journal, vol. 15, 1915, p. 239.
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Entrance to the cavern of Tuc d'Audoubert near Saint-Girons, France. A stream still issues from this cave, which is the most beautiful and in a way the most interesting of all the known Pyrenean haunts of the ancient artist who has left here not only miu-al engravings but also models in clay and even his footprints hard winters, and contrariwise, the shelter walls, having been exposed for thousands of years to the weathering elements, could not have preserved for us either paintings or delicate engravings that may have been made upon them.
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