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Article: PALEOLITHIC ART TROVE DISCOVERED IN FRANCE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- January 19, 1995
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Byline: Associated Press
PARIS Archaeologists inching through a cave suddenly found themselves amid a stunning art show 300 glacial-era wall paintings of animals, a 20,000-year old display that experts say eclipses the cave art of Lascaux.
The paintings, discovered Dec. 24 in caves of the Ardeche River canyon in southern France, depict horses, lions, bison, bears, panthers, mammoths, owls, wild oxen, wild goats and woolly rhinoceroses.
``We have there a selection of animals infinitely more varied than the other sites and with exceptional features,'' said Genevieve Martin, a specialist for the Archaeological Service of the Rhone-Alpes region.