Lascaux Cave: Meaning and Definition of

Las•caux' Cave'

Pronunciation: (las-kō'), [key]
  1. a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
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