PREHISTORIC SITE OF CASTEL-MERLE
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A prehistoric site presenting ten rock shelters, and a museum that offers to make them discover in an educational way.
This classified prehistoric site presents ten rock shelters grouped along the cliffs and occupied 85,000 years ago by Neanderthtal, and 35,000 years ago by Cro-Magnon. This is one of the highest concentrations of deposits in Europe, the fruit of exceptional continuity of human occupation. The "Reverdit" shelter shows a frieze with four magdalenian sculptures; the "Roc d'Acier" shelter contains Perigordian and Solutrean habitat vestiges; the "Labattut" shelter presents testimonials and paintings witness… These habitats have delivered collections: ivory adorns, shells and pierced teeth; diversified bone and silex industry; painted, carved and sculpted blocks of the Upper Paleolithic. On the spot, a museum invites to contemplate most of these discoveries in a pedagogical way, including the Aurignacian and the Magdalenian necklace. The entrance to the site includes the visit, animations (every Thursday afternoon from July 20 to August 24, display size of flint and fire-ignition) and shooting with a propellent. This is where the European archery championships and propellants take place every year in late May. On reservation: wall paintings, flint size demonstration and fire-making.
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