Grotte de la Salpêtrière
The Grotte de la Salpêtrière is a cave northwest of Remoulins in the Gard department in France . It is located 200 meters below the Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard , on the right bank of the Gardon , about 50 meters east of the municipality boundary with Vers-Pont-du-Gard .
The Grotte de la Salpêtrière was used from the Middle Paleolithic ( Moustérien , Gravettien , Solutréen and Magdalénien ) to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic . In addition to the Baume d'Oullins, it shows the most important stratigraphy of the upper Paleolithic of the Rhone Valley .
The numerous excavations that have taken place since 1872 have exhaustively captured the cave.
The cave, which is not open to visitors, has been classified as a Monument historique since 1912 .
literature
- M. Escalon de Fonton: Un nouveau faciès du Paléolithique supérieur dans la grotte de la Salpêtrière (Remoulins, Gard) , in: Miscelánea en homenaje al abate Henri Breuil (1877–1961), Ripoll Perelló, E., Ed., Diputación provincial de Barcelona, Instituto de Prehistoria Y Arqueología 1964, t. I, pp. 405-421.
- Discussion: A propos du Galet peint de la grotte de Salpétrière du Pont du Gard In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1923 pp. 317–319
Coordinates: 43 ° 56 ′ 38.4 " N , 4 ° 32 ′ 17.5" E