# Isturits

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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Isturits
|native name            = Izturitze
|commune status         = [Commune](/source/Communes_of_France)
|image                  = Isturits Mairie.JPG
|caption                = The town hall of Isturits
|image coat of arms     = Blason ville fr Isturits 64.svg
|arrondissement         = Bayonne
|canton                 = Pays de Bidache, Amikuze et Ostibarre
|INSEE                  = 64277
|postal code            = 64240
|mayor                  = Frédéric Camou<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=9 August 2021|language=fr}}</ref>
|term                   = 2020&ndash;2026
|intercommunality       = [CA Pays Basque](/source/Communaut%C3%A9_d'agglom%C3%A9ration_du_Pays_Basque)
|coordinates            = {{coord|43.3669|-1.2039|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m            = 125
|elevation min m        = 58
|elevation max m        = 345
|area km2               = 13.60
|population             = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date        = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}

'''Isturits''' ({{IPA|fr|istyʁits}}; {{langx|oc|Istorics}}; {{Langx|eu|Izturitze}}; also ''Isturitz''<!--archaeological literature, perhaps a historical French spelling?-->) is a [commune](/source/Communes_of_France) in the [Pyrénées-Atlantiques](/source/Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques) [department](/source/Departments_of_France) in south-western [France](/source/France).
It is located in the [former province](/source/Provinces_of_France) of [Lower Navarre](/source/Lower_Navarre) (''Arberoa'').<ref name=AES>[https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/isturits/ar-71697/ ISTURITS], [Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia](/source/Au%C3%B1amendi_Encyclopedia) {{in lang|es}}</ref>

The [Isturitz and Oxocelhaya caves](/source/Isturitz_and_Oxocelhaya_caves) are an important Paleolithic site where a [Neanderthal](/source/Neanderthal) mandible was found, as well as later [modern human](/source/EEMH) finds associated with the [Aurignacian](/source/Aurignacian), [Solutrean](/source/Solutrean) and [Magdalenian](/source/Magdalenian). They also include [cave paintings](/source/cave_paintings) and [bone flutes](/source/Paleolithic_flutes).<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Dominique Buisson, [https://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_1990_hos_87_10_9925 ''Les flûtes paléolithiques d'Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)''], ''Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française'' (1990), 420-433</ref>

==See also==
*[Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department](/source/Communes_of_the_Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques_department)

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