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...spot where the reindeer hunters chose to camp is beneath a rocky overhang, called the Abri Pataud, on a farm in the village of Les Eyzies. This region of the Dordogne, regarded as the "prehistoric capital" of western Europe, has several hundred other Stone Age sites; at Lascaux, Font-de-Gaume and other localities are the famous prehistoric cave paintings. The Abri Pataud shelter has been known since the 1890's, but its wealth of Stone Age relics came to light only in 1953, when Prof. Movius made a test excavation. Full-scale excavations began...
From ground level to about 16 feet down, the earth beneath the Abri Pataud is a series of thin layers, like a plank of plywood. Each layer, or stratum, is half-an-inch or so thick. Many of these strata constitute "occupation layers": buried within each are flint and bone objects that accumulated as the layer slowly accumulated during geological history. Some of the layers represent a year's occupation of the Abri Pataud; others contain the relics of 10, 20 or more years. A few yield no bones or man-made objects for they were laid down while...
...evidence that the scientists have brought to light document two Upper Palaeolithic hunting group who lived at the Abri Pataud a few thousands of years apart
After studying imperishable artifacts left by these prehistoric men and remains of plant and animal life of the time, Movius' group concluded that the first inhabitants of Arbi-Pataud--as it is called--lived there year-round in a cold temperate climate. The second group migrated to and from the area on an annual basis as the climate became sub-artic...
Although the sex was uncertain when the skull was discovered, the French press hopefully referred to it as "La jeune fille de Pataud." It was confirmed recently by Professor H. V. Vallois, Director of the Musee de 1'Homme in Paris and co-director of the expedition, that the skull is of a 15 to 18 year old Cro-Magnon girl...
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