microrobert
06-07-2012, 04:42 AM
Excavation of a Solutrean campsite
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Broken and discarded points litter the working area (foreground) of the camp.
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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brant%C3%B4me,_Dordogne) (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.
Excavation of a Solutrean campsite : Past Horizons Archaeology (http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/excavation-of-a-solutrean-campsite)
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Broken and discarded points litter the working area (foreground) of the camp.
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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brant%C3%B4me,_Dordogne) (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.
Excavation of a Solutrean campsite : Past Horizons Archaeology (http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/excavation-of-a-solutrean-campsite)