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Clermont-Ferrand (63) - Musée Bargoin

© M.Veschambre, musée Bargoin, Clermont Auvergne Métropole

Engraved pebble (fine striations) from a seasonal hunter-gatherer camp of the late Paleolithic (about 10,000 years before our era). It was found among stone tools that attest to hunting (Aurochs) and domestic activities.

Where to find it

Clermont-Ferrand (63) - Musée Bargoin
45, rue Ballainvilliers

63000 Clermont-Ferrand

Commune of discovery

Les martres d'artière

Locality

Champ Chalatras

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

2009

Chief Scientist

PASTY, Jean-François

Scope

Daily life

Materials

Mineral ➔ Lithic

Chronological period

Neolithic [- 5500 / - 2200] ➔ Middle Neolithic [- 4600 / - 3400]

Dating the object

4600 av. J.-C. – 3400 av. J.-C.

Dimensions

Operation report notice

Consult the notice

To museum documentation

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Bibliographie

Jean-François Pasty, Le gisement épipaléolithique à pointes de Malaurie de Champ-Chalatras (Les Martres d’Artière, Puy-de-Dôme), PALEO, décembre 2002, p. 120