The Contribution of Environmental Monitoring to the Preservation of Decorated Paleolithic Caves in the Midi‐Pyrénées Region

While the ambiance of a cave is clearly necessary to understanding its parietal art, the physical and chemical nature of the underground environment also plays an important role in the conservation of this art. Knowing how to preserve this heritage and how to best present it to the public are thus crucial issues in the context of particularly fragile artistic remains. We show that through environmental monitoring it is possible to identify the specific balances and sensibilities of these site

Archaeology · Cave · Geography · MIDI · Operating system · Physical geography · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Computer Science · Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology