Visiting the Pair-non-Pair cave 

• Animal figures carved deep into the rock face. The walls of the caves are decorated with engravings of horses, ibex, mammoths, and bovines, and various types of deer. They date from the Upper Palaeolithic, between 33,000 and 26,000 BC. They predate Lascaux and Cosquer and are from the same period as Chauvet cave (Aurignac culture).

Understanding the Pair-non-Pair cave 

• The third decorated cave to be discovered in the world. Pair-non-Pair was discovered in 1881 by an eminent archaeologist, François Daleau. It was acquired by the French State in 1900 and was the first cave to be listed as a historic monument.

• A key site for understanding prehistoric times. The work carried out by François Daleau was one of the first scientific excavations of a prehistoric cave with successive archaeological layers being unearthed one after the other and records being kept of all finds. Pair-non-Pair still plays an important role in modern-day prehistoric and paleontological sciences. 

• Precious information about the planet. The cave was occupied for 60,000 years, before and after the Aurignacian period, and has yielded 15,000 tools and 6,000 bone fragments from 60 different animal species, providing information about the evolution of humanity, stone- and bone-working techniques, and the climate and environment.