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Palaeolithic / Paleolithic European, Russian and Australian Archaeology / Archeology Sites

La Grotte de la Vache is important for the complete camp of Magdalenian hunters found, and may be seen almost as it was 12 000 to 15 000 years ago. Weapons, tools, typical game and artworks have been recovered from this small but important site.

Australian Archeology / Archeology sites
The Grotte du Sorcier, or the Roc Saint-Cirq, is one of the sites classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO among the prehistoric painted caves in the Vézère valley. It was discovered in late 1951. This site contains prehistoric engravings dating from the Magdalenian. There are engravings of humans, including the famous sorcerer, as well as animals (bison, horses and ibex), and linear signs.
The cave art of Grotte de Gargas constitutes one of the most moving revelations today of the life and thoughts of our prehistoric ancestors. It is made up of two very important elements - painted hands, many mutilated, as well as important animal engravings and paintings.

Castel-Merle, Vallon des Roches

La Gravette, the original site for the Gravettian toolmaking and venus carving culture

The Venus of Abri Pataud, as well as the site of Abri Pataud
Mousterian (Neanderthal) Sites

The Hobbits of Flores, Homo floresiensis

The Cro-Magnon Shelter

Homo erectus (Beijing Man, Peking Man) sites

Peștera cu Oase

Roc-de-Cave

La Madeleine

Laugerie Haute

Laugerie Basse

Dolni Vestonice

Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa - contains stone tools dated to two million years ago, possibly knapped by Homo habilis.

North American sites - When did people first reach North America?

Ötzi the Iceman

Font de Gaume in the French Dordogne

Liujiang - ancient modern human skull

The Homo Erectus site at Dmanisi

Neanderthal Symbolism - this is a translation of an excellent article discussing artefacts from many Neanderthal sites

80 000 to 100 000 years old hominin skull found in China

The Côa Valley in Portugal

Proto Lepenski Vir and Lepenski Vir Ia - a mesolithic site on the Donau

Lepenski Vir Ib-e, II, III - a mesolithic site on the Donau

Kostenki and other sites on the Don River

Zaraysk

Mamontovaya Kurya - Мамонтовой Курьи - Human presence in the European
Arctic nearly 40 000 years ago

Avdeevo

Lucy's baby, Australopithecus afarensis

Location Maps and Themes of Cave Paintings

French and Spanish Caves and Rock Shelters

Grottes et Abris-sous-Roche Français et Espagnols

Pech Merle in South West France

L'Abri des Marseilles

The Dordogne - scene for Book 5, Shelters of Stone. Scenes from the Dordogne, cooking Clan style - preparation of ptarmigan, and using a firestone to make a fire. Photos courtesy Sharon Rogers/walkhound

Prehistory of the Oltenia region of Romania - The Alexis Project. This is an overview of the work in progress by a small but dedicated group of Romanian people interested in preserving the prehistory and history of their region, and increasing knowledge about their area.

The Sungir - Sunghir site near Moscow

The Iron Gates Gorge, a very important series of mesolithic sites on the Danube

Mezhirich

Mezin

Shanidar Cave in Iraq

The Clan Fishing site - Sudak on the Crimean coast

Ice Age Infants - discovered at the Krems-Wachtberg site in Austria on the Danube

The Krems-Wachtberg mammoth site in Austria on the Danube

Neolithic and later sites

Gobustan on the Caspian Sea

Chauvet Cave

Burial Mounds in Denmark

The Lagar Velho Hybrid Child from Portugal
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