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Paintings 30,000 years old found

By United Press

VICHY, France (UP) -- Three children playing "police and gangsters" in a cave in the Montignac region have discovered carved and painted hunting scenes by cavemen who lived 30,000 years ago, it was discovered today.

Marcel Ravidat, 12, crawled through a one-foot aperture leading to the cavern. There he saw charging wild animals, representations of reindeer and a bison-like long horned animal, painted on a wall.

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Prof. Abel Bresil and Jean Tahom, two of France's foremost paleontologists, examined the paintings, attested their authenticity and expressed belief that they might prove the more important prehistoric frescoes in Europe.

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