Replica of Ardeche Chauvet grotto available to view.

Posted on April 22, 2015 by bill

Qu’y-a-t-il à voir dans la réplique de la grotte Chauvet ?

France Info junior par Gilles Halais, Estelle Faure mercredi 22 avril 2015

Plus de 400 animaux différents sont représentés sur les parois de la grotte Chauvet et de sa réplique © REUTERS/Robert Pratta

Ce week-end, la reconstitution de la grotte Chauvet ouvre ses portes aux visiteurs, en Ardèche. À l’intérieur, une réplique fidèle de peintures vieilles de 36 000 ans.

La grotte de Chauvet a été découverte il y a plus de 20 ans puis gardée secrète, fermée au public pour ne pas être dégradée. Pour pouvoir montrer aux visiteurs le spectacle de ces peintures datant d’il y a 36.000 ans, reconnues au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco en 2014, le site a été reconstitué à l’identique avec minutie. À partir du 25 avril, dans la Caverne du Pont-d’Arc en Ardèche, les visiteurs pourront découvrir ces 3.000 mètres carrés, soit un tiers de la surface de la caverne originale. Les parois y sont recouvertes des reproductions de 1.000 dessins d’animaux, félins, bisons ou chevaux, réalisés par la main d’hommes préhistoriques il y a plus de 30.000 ans.

Pour France Info junior, Gabriela, Romane et Tristan, élèves en sixième, font un bond dans le temps et posent toutes leurs questions sur cette grotte à Jean Clottes, grand spécialiste de la Préhistoire et de l’art pariétal. Il est l’un des premiers scientifiques à avoir exploré la grotte et étudié ses peintures.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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