{{Expand French|topic=geo|date=December 2008|Isturits}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Isturits |native name = Izturitze |commune status = Commune |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 = 2020–2026 |intercommunality = CA 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 in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It is located in the former province of Lower Navarre (''Arberoa'').<ref name=AES>[https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/isturits/ar-71697/ ISTURITS], Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia {{in lang|es}}</ref>
The Isturitz and Oxocelhaya caves are an important Paleolithic site where a Neanderthal mandible was found, as well as later modern human finds associated with the Aurignacian, Solutrean and Magdalenian. They also include cave paintings and bone 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
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