Cave of Bédeilhac

The cave of Bédeilhac is vast a Grotte decorated located on the commune of Bédeilhac-and-Aynat in Ariège.

Visited and described as of 1773 by Marcorelle, the Grotte was regarded at the 19th century as an exceptional natural cavity by its size, with the imposing underground landscape.

As of July 1906, a parietal painting Paléolithique there was discovered and authenticated, the first of the Département of Ariège.

Classified Historic building in 1929, after several others discovered of paintings, engravings and modellings on clay of an exceptional interest, the cave always surprises by the establishment chosen by the men Préhistorique S to occupy this vast underground space and to choose places there where to decorate the walls and the grounds with more far from the entry. The variety of the figures includes certainly /understands traditional animals: Bison S, horses, Reindeer S and Ibex S, but also of the human figurations, much rarer.

The man, for at least 15.000 years, has known and attended the prehistoric cave of Bédeilhac: this place of refuge and of probable ritual for the hunters of the time Magdalénien does not see following one another the human groups of the Ages of Metals (burials of the Bronze Age), of the Antiquité, then the first Naturaliste S as of the 16th century at least.

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