Pair-non-Pair Rock Art

Photography is not allowed inside Pair-non-Pair cave. This image of the famous horse (no. 16) is copied from the poster on display at the entrance of Pair-non-Pair cave.

Gated entrance to the decorated chamber within Pair-non-Pair cave.

Passageways in the cave that were not decorated are not gated.

Pieces of red ochre excavated from Pair-non-Pair cave sediment hint that there could have been pictographs (painted images) on the cave walls or ceiling. Conditions inside Pair-non-Pair cave might not have been ideal for the preservation of pictographs.

The rock art images inside Pair-non-Pair cave do no include humans, but three bone carvings are very human-like.

Flint blades excavated from the soil sediments inside of Pair-non-Pair cave.

Stone tool assemblage excavated from the soil sediments inside Pair-non-Pair cave; this assemblage of tools belong to the ChâteauPerron tool tradition (40,000 - 35,000 BC) that is associated with the Neandertals. The rock art on the walls of the cave were made at a later date.

Stone tool assemblage excavated from the soil sediments inside Pair-non-Pair cave; this assemblage of tools belong to the Augnacion tool tradition (33,000 - 26,000 BC).

Hammerstone with fractures along the use edge excavated from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Flint cores and a blade used as an end scraper from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Skull of a wild canine (Canis lupus) from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Half of the mandible of a sotted cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)) from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Mammoth tooth from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Split Mammoth femur from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Bone tools from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Bone fragment with fine line incisions from Pair-non-Pair cave.

Selfie taken just before entering Pair-non-Pair cave.