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Trou Magrite
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- Site type:
- Cave
- Site function:
- Habitation site
- Lat/Long:
- 50.22, 4.92
- Country:
- Belgium
- Classifications:
- Homo neanderthalensis
- Cultures:
- Mousterian
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The Trou Magrite is a cave and prehistoric site in Pont-à-Lesse in the Belgian municipality of Dinant. From the Mousterian to the Iron Age it was inhabited in stages. Among the artifacts excavated is an anthropomorphic figurine in mammoth ivory. Fossils of two Neanderthals have also been found.
The rock wall at the Trou Magrite is used by climbing athletes.
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