La Mouthe
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
La Mouthe
a cave near the city of Montignac in southern France (Dordogne Department).
La Mouthe was discovered in 1895 by the French archaeologist E. Rivière. It contains several cultural levels pertaining primarily to the Solutrean culture and Magdalenian culture of the Upper Paleolithic. A lamp made of sandstone was discovered. Deep within the cave, realistic representations of bisons, reindeer, mountain goats, a mammoth, and a woolly rhinoceros were found. Many of the pictures are engraved; some are drawn in mineral pigment. The discovery of La Mouthe encouraged extensive study in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of Paleolithic cave art.
REFERENCE
Breuil, H. Quatre cents siècles d’art pariétal. Montignac, 1952.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.