Sites
La Tour-Fondue
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- Site type:
- Shelter
- Site function:
- Habitation site
- Lat/Long:
- 45.75, 3.28
- Country:
- France
La Tour-Fondue is a rock shelter located in the commune of Chauriat, in the Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France. It has known several successive human occupations, ranging from the Mousterian and Châtelperronian to the Upper Paleolithic.
A Châtelperronian layer gave a carbon-14 dating of 33,402 +/- 554 years AD which, if confirmed, would be remarkably recent for this industry, given the hypothesis that associates the Châtelperronian with the last Neanderthals.
The rocks used by the authors of this industry were collected within a radius of about fifteen kilometers around the shelter.
Until this discovery, the Châtelperronien was known in Auvergne only on the site of Châtelperron, located in the north of Bourbonnais (department of Allier).