Noisetier Cave

Noisetier Cave - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Noisetier Cave (), owing its popular name to the Hazel trees that grow in front of its entrance, is located in a mountainside atop the Vallée d'Aure in the Ardengost commune, Hautes-Pyrénées department in the region Occitania, Southern France. During systematic excavations since 1992 Middle Paleolithic stone tools and artifacts attributed to the Neanderthal Mousterian culture were discovered among numerous faunal remains. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: Upper Palaeolithic

Source: en.wikipedia.org