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La Roche à Pierrot
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- Site type:
- Cave
- Site function:
- Habitation site
- Lat/Long:
- 45.83, -0.65
- Country:
- France
- Classifications:
- Homo neanderthalensis
- Cultures:
- Chatelperronian
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La Roche à Pierrot is a former prehistoric rock shelter, located in Saint-Césaire, Charente-Maritime, France.
It is, with the cave of the Reindeer in Arcy-sur-Cure, one of the only two sites on which the attribution of the lithic culture of the Châtelperronien to the Neanderthals is based: it delivered in 1979 a Neanderthal skeleton named "Pierrette", supposedly associated with a Châtelperronian lithic industry. It is one of the four known sites where the Châtelperronien rests directly on and in continuity with the Mousterian.
La Roche à Pierrot has thus become a world-renowned reference site for the transition between Middle and Upper Paleolithic.
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