Cosquer Mediterranean, the restored cave.

The catalog for the opening of the Cosquer Cave in 2022 in Marseille. The Cosquer Cave is one of the major sites of European Paleolithic parietal art. The groups of Homo sapiens who frequented this cave left traces of their passages (flint, hearths, charcoal, finger marks, etc.), the most remarkable of which are drawings and engravings organized on the walls in an underground space: a decorated cave frequented between 33,000 and 19,000 years before the present.

Very isolated in the south-east of France, far from the "classical" centers of European parietal art, but also by the bestiary which is represented there (penguins, seals in particular), the Cosquer cave is a unique decorated cave.