Châtelperronian
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Key facts
- Archaeological culture.name
- Châtelperronian
- Archaeological culture.region
- Afro-Eurasia
- Archaeological culture.period
- Upper Paleolithic
- Archaeological culture.dates
- 44,500–33,000 BP
- Archaeological culture.typesite
- La Grotte des Fées
- Archaeological culture.majorsites
- Châtelperron
- Archaeological culture.precededby
- Mousterian
- Archaeological culture.followedby
- Aurignacian, Périgordian
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Important sites and lithic production and associations
- Dispute over disruption of the site
- In popular culture
- Type site
- See also
- References
- External links
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The Châtelperronian is a proposed industry of the Upper Palaeolithic, the existence of which is debated. It represents both the only Upper Palaeolithic industry attributed to Neanderthals and the earliest Upper Palaeolithic industry in central and southwestern France, as well as in northern Spain. It derives its name from Châtelperron, the French village closest to the type site, the cave La Grotte des Fées.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Châtelperronian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.