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Caves and shelters in Auvergne

Caves and shelters under rock recensées par Musée du Patrimoine de France.
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1 cave and subrock shelter dans le Puy-de-Dôme
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1 cave and subrock shelter en Auvergne

Troglodytic site of Jonas in Saint-Pierre-Colamine
Cave and abyss
63610 Saint-Pierre-Colamine

The caves of Jonas, a 13th century medieval troglodytic habitat, are dug in a volcanic tuft cliff at Saint-Pierre-Colamine (Puy-de-Dôme). This fortified underground village housed up to 600 people, including monks, soldiers and peasants.
Two prehistoric caves in the Bernards domain

03220 Châtelperron

The caves of the Fées in Châtelperron, a prehistoric complex of the Upper Paleolithic in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, house the eponymous site of Châtelperronien (-38,000 to -32 000 years). Ranked historic monument in 1949, they reveal major traces of Neandertalians and Homo sapiens.