Prinvaux cave
The Prinvaux Grotto (also called La grotte Boussaingault ) is a cave in the Fontainebleau forest , south of the town of Boigneville in the extreme south of the Essonne department in France . It is located between the source of the Velvette river and the hamlet of Prinvaux on a hill near other caves.
The entrance of the approximately 7.0 m long cave is 70 cm high.
The barely identifiable engravings in the cave date from the Mesolithic between 8000 and 6000 BC. There is no agreement in science about the chronology of the different styles of the so-called corpus bellifontain . On the abrises and in the caves of the massif of Fontainebleau there is an abundance of engravings from the Stone Age (from around 8000 BC), which were first researched by the German amateur archaeologist Marie EP König (1899–1988).
The cave has been protected as a monument historique since 1980 .
- Prinvaux cave
literature
- Jacques Tarrête et al .: Informations archéologiques: Circonscription d'Ile-de-France. In: Gallia préhistoire, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1881, p. 321.
- G. Nelh: La Grotte Boussaingault, Boigneville. In: Bulletin du Gersar, No. 26, 1986, pp. 25-42.
Web links
- Grotte de Prinvaux in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 22.3 " N , 2 ° 22 ′ 13.3" E