Object description

The Pair-non-Pair Cave is located near the village of Prignac-et-Marcamps, Aquitaine:Gironde department in France. Only discovered in 1881 it is known for remarkable prehistoric parietal engravings - petroglyphic representations of wild animals , "which rank among the most ancient examples of art made by prehistoric" humans, dating back to between 30.000 and 25.000 BP, the Aurignacian cultural period of the Upper Paleolithic.