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Definition:
Rock art site in the French alps near the Italian border above Nice, Mont Bego has several carvings cut deep into the red schist, in two areas called the Valley of Marvels and the White Fountain.
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• Lascaux Cave
Pictographs and Petroglyphs
The first nonportable art in the world was pecked and painted and scratched into the walls of caves and on rock surfaces.
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Mont Bégo
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