Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte préhistorique de la Cauna
Belvis, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Grotte préhistorique de la Cauna (cad. E 658) : inscription par arrêté du 31 octobre 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/10/31 : inscrit MH
- Type
- grotte
- Main period of construction
- Préhistoire
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Belvis
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.84974, 2.08163
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102929
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Gisement ayant donné, en stratigraphie, pratiquement toutes les séquences du paléolithique supérieur et, en particulier, un bel horizon de la culture châtelperronienne (-3500).
English translation
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History
Deposit which has yielded, in stratigraphy, practically all the sequences of the Upper Palaeolithic and, in particular, a fine horizon of the Châtelperronian culture (-3500).