Les Vachons
Les Vachons (also called Pres Vachons ) are two abrises and a cave in Voulgézac , about 20 km south of Angoulême in the Charente department in France .
The course, discovered in 1867, lies along the Font-Robert stream, a lower reaches of the Boëme. The approximately 30.0 m high limestone cliff slopes to the south. A spring gushes in the cave even when it is dry. The Abri was examined by Trémeau de Rochebrune in 1867, by Chauvet in 1896 and in 1914 and 1922 by J. Coiffard, a farmer from Voulgezac. The site was dated to the Upper Paleolithic with stages of the Aurignacien and the Solutréen . Five stages from aurignacia to gravettia are documented. A molar from the Périgord was found here. The main find was the tool known as the "Burin des Vachons" because of its characteristic nature. 30,000-year-old prick from the Aurignacian were classified as having birch pitch geschäftete arrowheads identified.
The prehistoric deposit was classified as a Monument historique in 1927 .
- Les Vachons - The Cave
Les Vachons in Lauris in the Vaucluse department is an Abri of the same name. Nearby is the Abri La Chaire-à-Calvin .
Web links
- Gisements préhistoriques in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (English)
Coordinates: 45 ° 31 ′ 56 ″ N , 0 ° 9 ′ 28 ″ E