Grotte de Coupe-Gorge

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The cave of Coupe-Gorge is one of the caves of Montmaurin, prehistoric sites located in the gorges of the Seygouade, in the commune of Montmaurin, in Pays Comminges Pyrénées, in the South of the Haute-Garonne, in the Occitanie region, in France. Its filling, which covers some 400,000 years, has delivered human remains of the Middle Paleolithic, dated about 200,000 years, corresponding to the interglacial period of the isotopic stage 7. Other fossils date from the glacial period of the isotopic stage 6, the EEM Interglacial (approximately 130,000 to 115,000 years), or the isotopic stage 5a-d (early onset of Würm glaciation). Although the oldest of the two is more or less contemporary of the Montmaurin mandible, found in the Niche (neighborhood of Coupe-Gorge in the same set of caves), the fossils of the Cave of Coupe-Gorge have long been almost forgotten.