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Upper Paleolithic Sites in Europe

European Upper Paleolithic

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Saint Cesaire (France)

Saint-Cesaire, or La Roche-à-Pierrot, is a rockshelter in northwestern coastal France, where important Chatelperronian deposits have been identified, along with the partial skeleton of a Neanderthal.

Vilhonneur Cave (France)

Vilhonneur Cave is an Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) decorated cave site located near the village of Vilhonneur in the Charente region of Les Garennes, France. 

Wilczyce (Poland)

Chipped Stone Female Figurine (style Lalinde/Gönnersdorf) from Wilczyce, PolandRomuald Schild, photo credit Dagmara Manka

Wilczyce is a cave site in Poland, where unusual chipped-stone plaquette-type Venus figurines were discovered and reported in 2007.

Yudinovo (Russia)

Yudinovo is an Upper Paleolithic base camp site located on a promontory above the right bank of the Sudost' River in the Pogar District, Briansk region of Russia. Radiocarbon dates and geomorphology provide an occupation date between 16000 and 12000 years ago.

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