Jovelle's cave
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.JPG) Cave entrance |
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| Location: | Nouvelle-Aquitaine , France | |
| Height : | 160 m | |
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Geographic location: |
45 ° 21 '37 " N , 0 ° 25' 48" E | |
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| Geology: | limestone | |
| Particularities: | prehistoric scratch drawings | |
The Jovelle Cave is a prehistoric picture cave in southwestern France . It is located in the municipality of La Tour-Blanche-Cercles in the Dordogne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region .
The archaeological site has been classified as a Monument historique since November 28, 1989 and is therefore a listed building.
location
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About two kilometers southwest of the village of La Tour-Blanche, along the RD 84 , there are former underground mining areas for turonic limestone. The Jovelle Cave, owned by the Dordogne department since 2006, is located on the site of one of these quarries, a few hundred meters from the ruins of Jovelle Castle .
Discovery and Description
In the fall of 1983 Christian Carcauzon came across existing animal drawings on the walls near the cave entrance.
Norbert Aujoulat examined these more closely and identified scratch drawings of a mammoth , an ibex and a horse . Other animal images could not be pinpointed as they were partially covered by debris that had piled up on the ground from quarrying activities well into the 1940s.
In terms of style, the drawings, dated to the Upper Paleolithic , are reminiscent of the engraved animal figures in the cave of Pair-non-Pair in the neighboring Gironde department .
The remains of reindeer and horse bones were found on the floor , as well as prehistoric tools such as chisels and scrapers . Pottery shards dating back to the Iron Age have also been excavated .
literature
- Christian Carcauzon: La grotte préhistorique de Jovelle (commune de la Tour-Blanche) In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française , Vol. 111, No. 1, 1984, pp. 15-28.
Web links
- La Tour-Blanche: Grotte de Jovelle at Archeologie de la France (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00083079 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Citerne Pierre: La Tour-Blanche: Grotte de Jovelle. (No longer available online.) AdlFI: Archeologie de la France, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 19, 2013 (French). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b c Rigaud Jean Philippe: Aquitaine . In: Gallia préhistoire . tape 27 , No. 2, 1984, pp. 281-2 ( online [accessed April 19, 2013]).
- ^ Actualité scientifique . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française . tape 81 , No. 3, 1984, pp. 70-73 ( online [accessed April 19, 2013]).
