International audienceDiscovered in 1994, the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave (Ardèche, France) is one of the oldest decorated caves on the Eurasian continent. decorated caves on the Eurasian continent; the black drawings date back to the Aurignacian period, and the 36,000 years ago. Photographic tools are essential tools for archaeological inventories and archaeological inventories and surveys of walls and floors. Combined with low-angled lighting, photography to characterise the gesture and the pictorial material. For some years now, this acquisition tool has been developing developed thanks to 3D reconstruction technology using photogrammetry and stereophotometry. Through the example of the work of the scientific team at the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc c...