Chancelade (; ) is a
commune in the
Dordogne
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department in
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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in southwestern
France
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. The village is the site of
Chancelade Abbey.
The so-called "
Chancelade man" was found in the nearby
Raymonden rock shelter in 1888,
the skeleton of an approximately 60-year-old male who was buried there in the
Magdalenian
Magdalenian cultures (also Madelenian; ) are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe. They date from around 17,000 to 12,000 years before present. It is named after the type site of Abri de la Madeleine, a ro ...
, roughly 15,000 years ago.
Population
See also
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Communes of the Dordogne department
The following is a list of the 503 communes of the Dordogne department of France
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References
Communes of Dordogne
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