CHAUVET CAVE - WikiVidi Documentary

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the Ardèche department of southern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. It is located near the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on a limestone cliff above the former bed of the Ardèche River, in the Gorges de l'Ardèche. Discovered on December 18, 1994, it is considered one of the most significant prehistoric art sites and the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO granted it World Heritage status on June 22, 2014. The cave was first explored by a group of three speleologists: Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet for whom it was named six months after an aperture now known as "Le Trou de Baba" was discovered by Michel Rosa . At a later date the group returned to the cave. Another member of this group, Michel Chabaud, along with two others, travelled further into the cave and discovered the Gallery of the Lions, the End Chambe...

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[AmaratMamu]

Yes, Win Dows, deceptive because only few images are shown that really belongs, and also, such a bother the ridiculous robotic voice of the narrator.

[MrGlassboy]

What an amazingly wrong-headed grab-bag of images, zooming purposefully across the screen (always accompanied by what seems to be a mandatory, but essentially useless and distracting 'whoosh' sound), bringing us pictures of, among other totally unrelated things, the skull of a tyrannosaurus rex, a picture of a cheetah, a photo of a tiger, or pictures of modern-day buildings in the south of France, and in Los Angeles CA, while a robotic voice delivers an information-free monologue, full of hypothetical dates stemming from squabbles among paleontologists. It remains a mystery to me, why I was served up a photograph of a the elevation of the Host during a Catholic mass, or a reproduction of a plate from the 'Tres Riches Heures' of the Duc de Berry, while I just wanted to learn something about Chauvet's breathtaking drawings of ancient horses. 'Whoosh' -- here comes a picture of a turkey, or 'whoosh', now we're seeing a cross-section of an internal combustion engine. Who knows what all this is about -- maybe octopi? Great work, WikiVidi...

[Lifelikesky]

You talk about thing that you do not show, very deceptive!!