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Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil UNESCO world heritage sites

Laugerie Haute shelter on D47
Much of the cliff roof fell down about 10000 years ago and wrecked the place. This had the effect of burying all the archaeology hence preserving it to the present day and preventing it being rebuilt and reused in the millennia past or being plundered in the last few centuries.
Laugerie Basse shelter on Avenue de Laugerie
The ensemble of decorated furniture, exceptionally varied, perfectly illustrates the quality of the drawings of the "modern" men of prehistory.
Grand Roc cave on Route de Perigueux
The main cavern is a fairy grotto. It never enters out into a large space but rather a passage winds around and on either side are thousands of tiny and small stalactites clinging to the ceilings and cristalised and solidified rivers of calcified rock running down the walls.
Cro-Magnon rock shelter at 2 Chemin de Cro Magnon
It is the site of the discovery of anatomically modern human remains, apparently buried at the site, dated to about 28,000 years ago.
La Mouthe cave on La Mouthe
The cave houses more than 200 engravings and paintings of bison, horses, reindeer, felines, wolves but also two hands and a tectiform.
Cave of Font de Gaume at 1-4 Avenue des Grottes
The rock art in Font-de-Gaume includes depictions of more than 80 bisons, approximately 40 horses, and more than 20 mammoths.
Les Combarelles cave on D47
Holding more than 600 prehistoric engravings of animals and symbols, the two galleries in the cave were crucial in the re-evaluation of the mental and technical capabilities of these prehistoric humans around the turn of the 20th century.