France. Aquitaine. Gironde. 2007. At Prignac-et-Marcamps, between Bourg and St Andre de Cubzac : "Pair-non-pair" cave.
Discovered on 6 march 1881, the Pair-non-pair cave is decorated with wall engravings of horses, ibex, various types of deer, mammoths and bovines dating from the Aurignacian period (between 33, 000 and 26, 000 BC). Moving evidence og man's first artistic awakening, it is one of the most remarkable decorated caves of the early Upper Paleolithic era in the world.

"Pair-non-pair" is twice more older than the famous Lascaux caves (13, 000 BC). There is the same period of time between the first engravings of "Pair-non-pair" and ths drawings of Lascaux than between this period of Lascaux and now !

Hundreds of tools discovered in it are dated around 80, 000 BC (before Homo Sapiens). They are shown at the Bordeaux Museum.

"Pair-non-pair" is actually a very discreet place because it is a little and fragile cave not able to admit too much people. There is no publicity about this place.

- ENGRAVING of HORSE sous le faisceau de la lampe.