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General Information

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Object Name: Le Moustier

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Site Type: rock shelter

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Location / Coordinates

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Country: France

General Location Description: Dordogne, above the village Le Moustier at Peysac, 37 km SE of Perigueux

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Discovery

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Date of discovery: 0

Discoverers:

  • [Christy, Henri]
  • [Lartet, Édouard]

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General Bibliography Items

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Files attached

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Additional Content

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Location

actually: 1° 04' E, 45° 00' N

Desciption and Historical Background

The site consists of two rock shelters:

  • The Abri inférieur (also Abri classique or Abri 1), already excavated by Lartet and Christy in 1863
  • The Abri supérieur (Abri 2), positioned about 14 m below Abri 1 and excavated 1907 by Otto Hauser

In 1908 Otto Hauser discovered the Neanderthal skeleton Le Moustier 1.
The site was later excavated by Peyrony, who discovered 1914 the burial of the neonate Le Moustier 2.

Stratigraphy

The sequence of layers of the Abri inférieur as described by Peyrony (1930), Defleur (1933: 70-72) and Mellars and Grün (1991):

Layer L

Aurignacien moyen

Layer K

Châtelperronien and Moustérien

Layer J

Moustérien typique

Layer I

sand with rolled off silex

Layer H

Moustérien tradition Acheuléen (MTA)

Layer G

Moustérien tradition Acheuléen (MTA)

Layer F

Moustérien à denticulés

Layer E

clay

Layer D

river sediments with rolled off silex

Layer C

river sediments with rolled off silex

Layer B

Moustérien typique

Layer A

sterile sandy layer
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