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Gisement en grotte du Roc de Marsal

Campagne, Dordogne, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Gisement en grotte du Roc de Marsal (cad. B 48, 49, 52) : inscription par arrêté du 28 novembre 1989
Protection dates
1989/11/28 : inscrit MH
Type
site archéologique
Main period of construction
Préhistoire, Paléolithique moyen
Ownership
propriété du département
Commune
Campagne
Département
Dordogne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
44.89524, 0.97679
Mérimée reference
PA00083074

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La sépulture d'un enfant néandertalien a été découverte, en 1961, dans les niveaux moustériens de ce site. Le gisement permet également d'observer, à travers une séquence de plusieurs niveaux archéologiques, l'évolution du Moustérien de type Quina et l'interstratification au cours de la glaciation würmienne de cette industrie avec des assemblages Moustérien typique et Moustérien à denticulés.

English translation

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The burial of a Neanderthal child was discovered in 1961 in the Mousterian levels of this site. The deposit also allows observation, through a sequence of several archaeological levels, of the evolution of Quina-type Mousterian and the interstratification during the Würm glaciation of this industry with typical Mousterian and denticulate Mousterian assemblages.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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