Le Flageolet I is a small, stratified rockshelter in the Dordogne valley of southwestern France, near the town of Bezenac. The site has important Upper Paleolithic Aurignacian and Perigordian occupations. The 50 meter wide rock shelter over the north bank of the Dordogne river was occupied at least eight times between about 20,000 and 33,000 years ago.
Stone tools within the site include typical assemblages of both Aurignacian and Perigordian industries, including a large number of so-called Dufour bladelets, scrapers and burins. Dietary investigations of the animal bone represented at Le Flageolet indicate that red deer and reindeer were dominant.
Le Flageolet was excavated by Jean-Phillippe Rigaud between 1967 and 1984.
Sources
Grayson, Donald K. and Françoise Delpech 1998 Changing Diet Breadth in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Southwestern France. Journal of Archaeological Science 25(11):1119-1129.
Hays, Maureen A. and Geraldine Lucas 2000 A Technological and Functional Analysis of Carinates from Le Flageolet I, Dordogne, France. Journal of Field Archaeology 27(4):455-465.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
