Lascaux Caves could be a complicated of caves in southwestern France that's famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings.

They contain 900 of the foremost excellent survivingexamples of Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings area unit calculable to be seventeen,300 years previous. They primarily carries with it pictures of enormous animals, most of that area unit acknowledged from fossil proof to possess lived within the space at the time.

The caves, that are prohibited to the general public since 1963, are menaced in recent years by a series of unexplained, and solely partly controlled, plant life invasions. Any human presence within the caves is considered probably harmful. Normally, they're entered one time every week by one watchman for many minutes at a time.

In 1979, cave was further to the unesco World Heritage Sites list together with alternative prehistoric sites within the Vézère valley, France