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Neanderthal Sites
This is a list of archeological sites where remains or tools of Neanderthals were found. Europe Belgium * Schmerling Caves, Engis * Naulette * Scladina * Spy-sur-l'Orneau * Veldwezelt-Hezerwater France * Vaucluse, Bau de l'Aubesier * Biache-Saint-Vaast * Bruniquel Cave * Châtelperron * Combe Grenal * Eguisheim * Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure * La Chaise * La Chapelle-aux-Saints * La Ferrassie * La Quina * Le Moustier * Le Regourdou * Lussac-les-Châteaux, Les Rochers-de-Villeneuve * Moula-Guercy * Saint-Césaire Germany * Ehringsdorf * Neanderthal 1, Neander Valley * Salzgitter-Lebenstedt Netherlands * Krijn, Northsea shore United Kingdom * Bontnewydd, Llanelwy (Wales) * Creswell Crags (England) * La Cotte de St Brelade (Jersey, Channel Islands) * Lynford Quarry (England) * Swanscombe Heritage Park (England) Spain * Abrigo de la Quebrada (Valencian Community) * L'Arbreda * Atapuerca Mountains * Axlor * Banyoles (Catalonia) * Carih ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archeological Site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record. Sites may range from those with few or no remains visible above ground, to buildings and other structures still in use. Beyond this, the definition and geographical extent of a "site" can vary widely, depending on the period studied and the theoretical approach of the archaeologist. Geographical extent It is almost invariably difficult to delimit a site. It is sometimes taken to indicate a settlement of some sort, although the archaeologist must also define the limits of human activity around the settlement. Any episode of deposition, such as a hoard or burial, can form a site as well. Development-led archaeology undertaken as cultural resources management has the disadvantage (or the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chapelle-aux-Saints
La Chapelle-aux-Saints (; ) is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. History Neanderthal skeleton The La Chapelle-aux-Saints cave, bordering the Sourdoire valley, revealed many archeological artifacts belonging to the late Mousterian techno-complex,BINANT P., 1991 - ''Les sépultures du Paléolithique''. Paris : Errance including the first ever recognized Neanderthal burial discovered on 3 August 1908. Jean and Amédée Bouyssonie, as well as L. Bardon, led archaeological digs in the cave from 1905 to 1908, discovering over 1,000 pieces of stone industry (mainly flint), bones of different fauna including reindeer, bovid, horse, fox, wolf and even a rhinoceros’ tooth. The most spectacular discovery was that of a very well preserved skeleton of an adult Neanderthal man who appears to have been intentionally buried in a rectangular pit deep, long and wide.NOUGIER L.-R., 1963, ''La préhistoire : essai de paléosociologie religieuse''. Paris : Bloud & G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creswell Crags
Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe. Creswell Crags forms part of the Welbeck Estate. It is a Scheduled monument and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The evidence of occupation found in the rich series of sediments that accumulated over many thousands of years is regarded as internationally unique in demonstrating how prehistoric people managed to live at the extreme northernmost limits of their territory during the Late Pleistocene period. The caves contain occupation layers with evidence of flint tools from the Mousterian, proto- Solutrean, Creswellian and Maglemosian cultures. They were seasonally occupied by nomadic groups of people during the Upper Palaeol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bontnewydd Palaeolithic Site
The Bontnewydd palaeolithic site (), also known in its unmutated form as , is an archaeological site near St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales. It is one of only three sites in Britain to have produced fossils of ancient species of humans (together with Boxgrove and Swanscombe) and the only one with fossils of a classic Neanderthal. It is located a few yards east of the River Elwy, near the hamlet of Bontnewydd, near Cefn Meiriadog, Denbighshire. Palaeolithic site Bontnewydd was excavated from 1978 by a team from the University of Wales, led by Dr. Stephen Aldhouse Green. Teeth and part of a jawbone from a Neanderthal boy approximately eleven years old were dated to 230,000 years ago. Seventeen teeth from at least five individuals were found. The teeth show evidence of taurodontism, enlarged pulp cavities and short roots, which is characteristic of Neanderthals, and although it is not unique to them it is one of the reasons that the species was identified as Neanderthal. In Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krijn
Krijn () is the common name of a Neanderthal fossil discovered off the Dutch coast. The discovery is most notable for being the first evidence of a Neanderthal presence in the Netherlands. The fossil is estimated at 100,000-40,000 BP. The skull fragment was recovered from the North Sea in 2001 off the coast of Zeelandic Flanders (province of Zeeland). It was first publicly described in 2009. Publication The fossil was made public by Ronald Plasterk, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science at a press conference held in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. The fragment is currently the center piece of a special exhibition in the same museum. The Natural History Museum in London and Boerhaave Museum in Leiden also pay attention to the discovery. The scientific analysis of the skull fragment was published in the Journal of Human Evolution. Analysis The fossil is a skull fragment. It was studied by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
Salzgitter (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Soltgitter'') is an independent city#Germany, independent city in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig. Together with Wolfsburg and Braunschweig, Salzgitter is one of the seven ''Oberzentren'' (metropolitan areas) of Lower Saxony. With 107,674 inhabitants and (as of 2015), it is the largest city by area in Lower Saxony and one of the largest in Germany. Salzgitter originated as a conglomeration of several small towns and villages, and is today made up of 31 boroughs, which are relatively compact conurbations with wide stretches of open country between them. The city is part of two urban areas, Hildesheim and Braunschweig, because of its uneven distribution of urban quarters. Due to the uneven population distribution, the density of the areas within the Braunschweig urban area is over 1,500 people per km² with the Lebenstedt area having over 3,000 people per km². Over 70% (76,500) of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neanderthal 1
Feldhofer 1 or Neanderthal 1 is the scientific name of the 40,000-year-old Type (biology), type specimen fossil of the species Neanderthal, ''Homo neanderthalensis''. The fossil was discovered in August 1856 in the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte cave in the Neander Valley (''Neandertal''), located east of Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1864, the fossil's description was first published in a scientific journal, where it was officially named.William King (geologist), William King: ''The Reputed Fossil Man of the Neanderthal''. In: ''Quarterly Journal of Science''. Vol. 1, 1864, pp. 88–97Full text (PDF; 356 kB)/ref> Neanderthal 1 was not the first Neanderthal fossil ever discovered. Other Neanderthal fossils had been found earlier but were not recognized as belonging to a distinct species. Discovery Limestone has been mined in the Neander Valley since the early 16th century. By the mid-19th century, mining operations had expanded to an industrial scale. In August 1856, two Italian wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehringsdorf Skull
The Ehringsdorf remains are the fragments of at least nine early Neanderthal individuals, exhumed from a deposit of limestone at the Ehringsdorf quarries along the Ilm River, roughly from Weimar, Germany. The deposits in which this skull were found included elephant, rhinoceros, horse, and bovid fossil remains and came from the travertines belonging to the second half of the last (Eemian) interglacial period. The estimated age of the remains is between 150,000 and 120,000 years. The remains' characteristics typical of early Neanderthals include the size of the brow ridges, the long and low brain case, and the strong chinless lower jaw. Ehringsdorf H skull In 1928, German anthropologist Franz Weidenreich published ''Der Schädelfund von Weimar-Ehringsdorf'', (the skull find from Weimar-Ehringsdorf) where he described the Ehringsdorf H (or Ehringsdorf 9) skull-cap as that of an adult female. He suggested that the frontal area of the remains showed evidence of being struck, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Césaire
Saint-Césaire () is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Poitou-Charentes), southwestern France. In the 1970s, a Neanderthal skeleton was found near Saint-Césaire. Population See also *Communes of the Charente-Maritime department
The following is a list of the 462 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):
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Moula-Guercy
The Moula-Guercy Cave (French: Baume de Moula-Guercy) is a paleontological site located on a calcareous cliff above the west bank of the Rhône river in France. It is close to the village of Soyons, south of Valence, Ardèche. It was discovered in 1970 or 1972 by M. Moula. The site is composed of six cavities, the majority of which were occupied in the Middle Paleolithic. Moula-Guercy cave was first excavated between 1975 and 1982 by P. Paven, with later excavations conducted by A. Defleur between 1993 and 1999, following an initial survey undertaken in 1991. The cave was occupied by Neanderthals approximately 100,000 BP. The excavations carried out at the site in the 1990s found abundant faunal, archaeological and paleobotanical remains, including the bone remains of six individuals of the ''Homo neanderthalensis'' species. Evidence has been found at the site which has been inferred to demonstrate Neanderthal cannibalism. The bones showed cut marks and are very well prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lussac-les-Châteaux
Lussac-les-Châteaux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Vienne (department), Vienne Departments of France, department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions of France, region in western France. History Prehistory The importance of the prehistoric art at Lussac is evidenced by the presence of numerous archaeological artefacts in the Museum of National Antiquities at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The 'Cave of the Goblin' was excavated by A. Brouillet in 1865, by the Henri Breuil, Abbé Breuil in 1905, by Stéphane Lwoff in 1962, and from 1980 by Jean and André Chollet Airvaux. Among the items found by A. Brouillet were numerous engraved limestone slabs, a barbed arrow, a decorated awl, and a fragment of bone with a drawing of a horse and an ox. This cave was occupied from the middle Magdalenian period, but the discovery of Roman tiles, coins, and a medieval seal shows it was a haven throughout history. 'The Hermitage,' a cave occupied by the Neanderthals, was excavated between 1864 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Regourdou
Le Regourdou (or Le Régourdou) is an archaeological site in the Dordogne department, France, on top of a hill just from the famous cave complex of Lascaux. At this now collapsed deep ancient karst cavity remarkably well preserved Neanderthal fossils were recovered, that might be skeletal remains of deliberate burials. According to the current excavation team at the site, the correct name of the location is "Regourdou". "Le Régourdou" is considered a misnomer and should be avoided. History The site of Regourdou was discovered by chance in 1954 by its owner, Roger Constant. He had seen water being swallowed through a hole into the ground of his farmyard and chose to enlarge it in the hope of discovering another entry to the nearby cave of Lascaux. This cave complex had been discovered in September 1940, after a storm had uprooted a tree that lay above the entrance, thereby causing the collapse of parts of its vault, opening the current artificial entrance. Constant, having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
