Tourists Are So Bad That They Built A Copy of a Famous Cave In France For Them
by Ashley Dreiling
Tourists who want to see France’s Chauvet cave, filled with some of the oldest and best-preserved cave art in the world, will have to view a near-exact replica site instead. This faux cave brings up some intriguing questions, such as, is viewing a replica enough and how much does originality matter?
Banning the public from the real site came from lessons learned after Lascaux, a cave near Chauvet discovered in 1940 and opened as a tourist attraction. Tom Scott explains what happened there and the debate about authenticity in tourism.
Learn more about Chauvet 2 and watch more of Tom Scott’s adventures on YouTube. You can also check him out on Twitter and Facebook.
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Tags: · archaeological sites, archaeologists, authenticity, cave art, cave paintings, Chauvet cave, Lascaux, original, originality, resin, Tom Scott, top, tourism, tourist attraction, tourists
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