La Ferrassie Rock Shelter and Neanderthal burial site Off D32E, north of Le Bugue & 2km south of Savignac de Miremont.
La Ferrassie Rock Shelter. Off D32E, north of Le Bugue & 2km south of Savignac de Miremont. NW of Les Eyzies. A major site in the prehistory of the region: excavated from 1896 for 30 years by Denis Peyrony, and then by H. Delporte in 1968-73 then Delporte and Tuffreau in 1984. Peyrony found 7 Neanderthal (Mousterian) burials with complex funerary ritual: one 3-year-old child’s skull had been removed at burial & placed in another pit. The most famous, known as La Ferrasie 1, was a male skeleton with the most complete Neaderthal skull ever found. In March 1994 the site was fenced (access must be arranged at Font de Gaume) but the rock overhang, perspex shelter, section of deposits & area where burials were excavated are visible through wire. The locations of the individual burials are not marked, but the large unexcavated ‘control’ sections show Aurignacian & Périgordian (Upper Paleolithic) deposits overlying the Mousterian. In Jan 2019 Google street view shows the site very overhung by trees and in the process of conservation.
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Location: Savignac-de-Miremont, Perigueux, Dordogne, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
Photo credit: © Jean Williamson / Alamy / Afripics
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