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Cave and archaeological site in southern France

Arago Cave Caune de l'Arago Interactive map of Arago Cave Location Occitanie (région administrative) Département des Pyrénées-Orientales Massif des Corbières dans les pré-Pyrénées

**Arago Cave** is a [prehistoric](/source/Prehistory) site in the community of [Tautavel](/source/Tautavel), in the department of [Pyrénées-Orientales](/source/Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Orientales). It is a large cavity overlooking a perennial stream called the [Verdouble](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Verdouble&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdouble)]. Human remains attributed to the [Tautavel Man](/source/Tautavel_Man) and the [lithic](/source/Stone_tool) remnants of the [Lower Paleolithic](/source/Lower_Paleolithic) were discovered in the cave.

## Location and description

Arago Cave

Arago Cave is located in the southern part of France, at the east of the [Pyrénées](/source/Pyrenees), in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales, in the town of [Tautavel](/source/Tautavel). Included in a limestone cliff of the [Corbières Massif](/source/Corbi%C3%A8res_Massif),[1] it overlooks several tens of meters (80 m today, less than 60 at the time of Tautavel Man) of wide valley where the Verdouble stream leaves a [canyon](/source/Canyon) to meander in this plain.[2]

The cavern is thirty meters long, but could have measured up to a hundred and twenty meters during the prehistoric period. Its maximum width is 10 meters.[3] It is currently opening to the south but the opening was facing east before the collapse.

This advantageous situation made it a perfect shelter for prehistoric [Hunter-gatherers](/source/Hunter-gatherer).[2] The eastern opening on a south facing cliff allowed relatively high temperatures during winter. The highly contrasted relief of this environment produced several ecological niches that provided as many types of prey: animals adapted to the river ([beavers](/source/Beaver)). Others adapted to the plain, which was, according to successive periods and climates, covered with forest (deer) or steppe (horses, [bison](/source/Bison), [rhinos](/source/Rhinoceros), [elephants](/source/Elephant)), living [herbivores](/source/Herbivore) on craggy grounds ([mouflons](/source/Mouflon), [ibex](/source/Capra_(genus)), [tahrs](/source/Tahr), [chamois](/source/Chamois)), and still others on uplands with more harsh climates ([musk oxen](/source/Muskox), [reindeer](/source/Reindeer)).[4] In addition, under the cave, there was a fording where herds of large herbivores passed, which facilitated hunting. The elevated position of the cave made it an excellent observatory for spotting herds in the plain.[4] The nearby river (which never ran dry) provided water as well as [pebbles](/source/Pebble) to cover the soil of the cave or serve as tools. The distant environment, less than a half-day walk (about 30 km), could provide other stones to make tools: [flint](/source/Flint) (in [Roquefort-des-Corbières](/source/Roquefort-des-Corbi%C3%A8res)), [red jasper](/source/Jasper) (in [Corneilla-de-Conflent](/source/Corneilla-de-Conflent)), [cherts](/source/Chert) (in [Rivesaltes](/source/Rivesaltes)), [quartzites](/source/Quartzite) (in [Soulatgé](/source/Soulatg%C3%A9)), [volcanic rocks](/source/Volcanic_rock) (Col de Couisse).[5]

## Scientific interest

Arago Cave has more than fifteen meters of sediment, rocks, and debris accumulated over a period of about 100,000 to 700,000 years. By their quantity (the period of excavations from 1967 to 1994 yielded about 260,000 objects including bones and lithic remains) and their diversity, these vestiges give much information on prehistoric human groups that lived there, but also on animals, plants, and climates that followed in the region during these 600,000 years.

On July 27, 2015, the Museum of Prehistory of Tautavel announced the discovery by young volunteer excavators of a tooth dating back 550,000 years on the site. This fossil tooth is 100,000 years older than the skull of the Man of Tautavel.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

Arago 21

### Tautavel Man

Main article: [Tautavel Man](/source/Tautavel_Man)

Tautavel Man (*Homo erectus tautavelensis*) is a proposed [subspecies](/source/Human_subspecies) of *[Homo erectus](/source/Homo_erectus)*, the type specimen being 450,000-year-old [fossil](/source/Fossil) remains discovered in the Arago Cave.[6]

### Fauna and flora

The remains of a large and varied fauna have been found in the Arago Cave, with 122 different [species](/source/Species) represented. Many remains of mammal species testify to the feeding of humans at different times. A slender horse (Equus mosbachensis tautavelensis) seems to have been the main prey during the Tautavel man's days (level G), with bison ([Bison priscus](/source/Bison_priscus)) also found in large numbers at the same time. The excavations also revealed numerous remains of reindeer ([Rangifer tarandus](/source/Rangifer_tarandus)), deer ([Cervus elaphus](/source/Cervus_elaphus)), fallow deer ([Dama sp](/source/Dama_spathi).), Musk oxen ([Praeovibos priscus](/source/Praeovibos_priscus)), moufflons ([Ovis ammon](/source/Ovis_ammon)), tahrs (Hemitragus bonali). ) and rhino ([Dicerorhinus hemitoechus](/source/Dicerorhinus_hemitoechus))[7] and remains of Deninger bears ([Ursus deningeri](/source/Ursus_deningeri)).[8]

## Excavation history

Excavation session

Known since the middle of the nineteenth century for the remains of animals, Arago Cave began to yield evidence of prehistoric industry to [J. Abelanet](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._Abelanet&action=edit&redlink=1) in 1948. In the 1950s, the brothers Ribes de Maury and Raymond Gabas of [Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet](/source/Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet) were among the first to perform excavations, as amateur [archaeologists](/source/Archaeologists). They collaborated with [J. Abelanet](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._Abelanet&action=edit&redlink=1) and their findings helped realize the importance and richness of the site.[9]

Systematic excavation campaigns, led by [Henry de Lumley](/source/Henry_de_Lumley), have been conducted every year since April 1964. The first annual campaigns (in 1964, 1965 and 1966) lasted two weeks. The following ones, from 1967 to 1978, one month, then three months (from 1979 to 1991) and, since 1992, five months.[10] The Arago cave was listed as a [historic monument](/source/Historic_monument) in April 1965.[11]

## Stratigraphy and chronology

Its powerful filling, about ten meters thick, covers most of the [Middle Pleistocene](/source/Middle_Pleistocene) and has been the subject of numerous attempts at [radiometric dating](/source/Radiometric_dating) that are sometimes contradictory. Limit ages of about 700 and 350 000 years were obtained by [uranium-thorium dating](/source/Uranium%E2%80%93thorium_dating) for [stalagmitic](/source/Stalagmite) floors at the base (floor 0) and at the top (floor α) of the [stratigraphic](/source/Stratigraphic_unit) sequence, respectively.[5]

## Set 3

The main [archaeological](/source/Archaeological) levels are found in the third set (soils levels D to G) and would be between 300 and 450 000 years old. This ensemble also delivered a number of human fossils, including an incomplete skull (face, frontal and parietal right) (Arago XXI, G soil) and two mandibles (Arago II, G soil and Arago XIII, soil F) attributed to the man of Tautavel.[5] Discoveries from the oldest layers of set III have been described as ancient [Tayacian](/source/Tayacian) or "Tautavélien". They are made mainly of quartz, more rarely flint and quartzite, and include scrapers, many notched tools (denticulate, notches, Tayac spikes, beaks, etc.), pebbles cut and rare [bifaces](/source/Hand_axe) (less than 1 for 1000 tools).[5] At the top of the set III (layer E), the bifaces are proportionally more, which led Henry de Lumley to link the industry to the average [Acheulean](/source/Acheulean).[1][12]

However, these differences should be tempered because the numbers of bifaces are very small in levels G to D, and where the proportions between major technological classes slightly vary, whether we consider the whole industry or only the tooling.[13] The materials used are mostly local (80%) and were taken from the alluvial deposits of Verdouble, but some came from areas 30 km far north-east and southwest of the site, reflecting a good knowledge of the regional resources and an anticipation of needs.[5][13]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-De_1965_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-De_1965_1-1) De Lumley, Henry (1965). ["Evolution des climats quaternaires d'après le remplissage des grottes de Provence et du Languedoc méditerranéen"](http://www.persee.fr/doc/quate_0004-5500_1965_num_2_2_997). *Bulletin de l'Association Française Pour l'Étude du Quaternaire* (in French). **2** (2): 165–170. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.3406/quate.1965.997](https://doi.org/10.3406%2Fquate.1965.997). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0004-5500](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0004-5500).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-..._1998_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-..._1998_2-1) Lumley, Henry de (1998). *L'homme premier: préhistoire, évolution, culture*. Impr. Floch). Paris: Le Grand livre du mois. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-2702812334](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2702812334). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [467667375](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/467667375).

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