Abri Chadourne

About

The Chadourne Shelter is a prehistoric site in the village of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac in the Dordogne. He is named after Armand Chadourne, his discoverer owner.

Presentation: It is located at the entrance to the Beune Valley, between the main cliff and the valley bottom, on an intermediate cornice that is more or less at the same height as the castle terrace. There are few wildlife but many artifacts of the Musterian, including a rare bone punch worked resting in its Siderolithic limonic sandstone polisher (Cenozoic period in the Central Massif). The two main epochs represented are the Carenian Moustarian type Ferrassia and the Moustarian type toothed. Just as in Combe-Grenal, degeneration is observed in the layers of the Moustarian to denticles: the upper layer (so more recent) is characterized by the loss of toothed tools replaced by poorly defined, smaller tools, with more clumsy flow and with decreasing laminar index.

Related articles: List of historical monuments of the Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil