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CARTAILHAC, Émile (1845 – 1921)

CARTAILHAC, Émile (1845 – 1921)

1845 – 1921

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Daniel Chevalier (1887-1934) 1921/ Didier Descouens 2010 · Muséum de Toulouse · CC BY-SA 3.0

1902 CE

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Les cavernes ornées de dessins. La grotte d’Altamira, Espagne. “Mea culpa” d’un sceptique.

Cartailhac’s famous retraction of his opposition to the concept of paleolithic cave wall art, published over 20 years after Sanz de Sautuola’s discovery of the Altamira cave paintings in northern Spain. Ca…