Font-de-Gaume, cave cave near Les Eyzies, in Dordogne, France, known for its lavish prehistoric wall paintings, located in the Beune valley near Les Eyzies, in Dordogne, Fr. The cave, with its .



. It contains about




a woolly rhinoceros, and a wolf

, and a lioness.


As is often the case in Ice Age art, the artists who created the figures at Font-de-Gaume extensively incorporated the cave’s natural relief so as to give their paintings a three-dimensional quality. The animals were painted in monochrome and in polychrome, usually in shades of red, brown, and black, and were often sometimes superimposed on earlier pictures, making it possible to discern a chronological sequence of artistic development. Most of the paintings probably date to the early and middle Magdalenian period, mid-Magdalenian Period of Paleolithic art (about 14,000 years ago), though some may be as much as 10,000 years older.