Cave of Enlene

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The Enlène Cave, or Enlène Cave, is a cave in the Magdalenian region of Montesquieu-Avantès, France. The Enlène Cave is one of the richest caves in the Ariegean Pyrenees in Magdalenian furniture, with some remarkable sculpted objects (propeller with bouquetins, grasshopper and bird on engraved bones, etc.). It is exceptional in the amount of its engraved plates.

It is also a reference site for the Gravettien. It is part of the karst network of the Volp Caves, natural monument and classified site (2013) which includes the cave of the Three Brothers and its iconic "dance shaman", and the cave of the Tuc d'Audoubert with its famous statuary group of clay bison. Enlene is the oldest known of the three.

The Volp caves are part of all the caves adorned with the Pyreneo-Cantabric chain and are closed to the public.