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Lascaux Cave

19,000 years ago

Paleolithic cave in southern France containing some of the most famous prehistoric paintings of animals and symbols

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The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Lascaux on Wikipedia.

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19,000 years ago — older than the timeline's axis, which begins at 9000 BCE. Drawn to the same scale as the rest of the canvas, everything since would be a single pixel, so Lascaux Cave sits on the deep-time shelf instead.

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
  2. European tribal peoples (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Urnfield cultures (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 BCE)
  5. Celtic Hallstatt culture (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE–300 BCE)
  7. European tribal peoples (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE)
  9. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Rome (Constantius) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Visigoths (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Frankish Kingdom (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Carolingian Empire (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. West Francia (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Kingdom of France (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Angevin Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. France (1279 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Approximate
Border precision
  • Approximate
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