Caverne de Bara Bahau – Le Sanctuaire de l'Ours

In Le Bugue near Les Eyzies, come and contemplate the prehistoric cave of Bara-Bahau (pronounced "barraba-ou" in Occitan). Discovered in 1951, it presents three strings of large engraved animals, horses, bears, reindeer, aurochs, ibexes, dating back 15 years. “Ribambelle” because fresco refers more to paintings and friezes to small engravings. But Bara-Bahau, precisely, displays neither one nor the other.
Engraved on three superimposed levels, the animals decrease in size as we get closer to the ground, undoubtedly due to a lack of room for maneuver on the part of the artists, operating while standing, sitting or almost lying down. Another curiosity: the essential contours but also the manes, the ganaches and, inside the silhouettes, parallel tracings made with the fingers which underline the shapes and volumes, themselves carried by the reliefs of the wall, thus giving life to the drawings.