Dordogne. Excavation of a Solutrean campsite

Since November 2011, a team of archaeologists from L’Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), have been excavating the site of a Solutrean hunters camp in Brantome (Dordogne), southwest France, prior to the construction of a waste management plant.

Archaeological evaluation, conducted in October 2010, revealed the presence of Palaeolithic activity buried more than two metres deep. Full excavation revealed a prehistoric hunters camp dated to the Solutrean period, during the last glacial maximum  making it over 20,000 years old.

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