Enlène cave
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| Location: | France , Occitania , Ariege department , municipality of Montesquieu-Avantès | |
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Geographic location: |
43 ° 1 '51 " N , 1 ° 13' 2" E | |
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| Type: | Bronze Age burial sites | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
| Particularities: | (almost) untouched; Period: Middle to Upper Upper Palaeolithic (= Magdalenian ) 18,000 - 12,000 BP; | |
| Website: | http://www.cavernesduvolp.com/grottedenlene.php | |
The Enlène cave is one of the three Volp caves . As part of the network of cult sites of the Pyrenees- Cantabrian Mountains chain , it is located in France in the Occitania region in the Ariège department in the municipality of Montesquieu-Avantès . It belongs to the circle of the Franco-Cantabrian cave art . The other two Volp caves, the Tuc d'Audoubert cave and the Three Brothers Cave are in the immediate vicinity .
history
Prehistoric art
In the Bronze Age, the Enlène cave was used as a burial place. From the Upper Paleolithic there are, among other things, small-format artifacts of the Magdalenian . A settlement in Gravettia has also been proven. The Enlène cave is very rich in small art objects "art mobilier" / everyday art and engraved sandstone plaques (floor tiles?, Cutting boards?).
The art objects include:
- salmon carved in bone
- Children's lower jaw with a hole (necklace?)
- perforated reindeer teeth
- Shellfish
- Sewing needles
- Ocher stones with indentations (paint cans?)
- Sandstone platelets (engraved or scratched).
- Spear Thrower (with sculpted saiga antelope)
- Unique representation of an amphibian (frog)
- Unique representation of an insect (grasshopper)
- Cave painting Magdalenian .
See also
- Neighboring prehistoric caves: cave of Montespan , cave of Mas d'Azil , cave of Gargas , Niaux Cave .