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  1. Cave system in SW France with prehistoric
  2. wall paintings. It is richly decorated with
  3. realistic and symbolic paintings of
  4. buffaloes, horses, and red deer of the Upper
  5. Palaeolithic period, about 18,000 BC. The
  6. caves, near Montignac in the Dordogne, were
  7. discovered 1940. Similar paintings are found
  8. in Altamira, Spain.
  9.