Abri des Harpons

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The Harpons shelter is a prehistoric rock shelter that is part of the caves of Lespugue, also known as caves of the Save, located in the gorges of the Save, in the commune of Lespugue, in Haute-Garonne, in Pays Comminges Pyrénées, in the administrative region Occitanie (formerly Midi-Pyrénées), in France. It was occupied mainly during the Solutrean and Magdalenian. It is one of the few known Soluterean stratigraphic sequences (in 2003) in the Pyrenean Piedmont. He delivered several pieces of decorated furniture, including a magdalenian venus on stick (not to be confused with his famous consœur, the venus of the cave of the Curtains, known as "Venus de Lespugue"), an oil lamp, Magdalenian chas needles...