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Caves and rock shelters in Languedoc-Roussillon

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Labaume-Latrone cave in Sainte-Anastasie
Grotte ornée
30190 Sainte-Anastasie

The Labaume-Latrone cave in Sainte-Anastasie, Occitanie, is a major prehistoric site with paleolithic drawings among the oldest in Europe, dated 37,464, as well as neolithic remains and the Bronze Age.
Aldene Cave, also known as Fauzan or Shell
Grotte ornée
34210 Cesseras

The Aldena Cave, located in Cesseras in Occitanie, is a prehistoric site adorned with Aurignacian engravings, frequented from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age, classified as a historical monument since 1955.
Grotte Chabot d'Aiguèze
Grotte ornée
30760 Aiguèze

The Chabot d'Aiguèze Cave, located in the Gard en Occitanie, is a cave decorated with the Upper Paleolithic famous for its mammoth engravings and its pioneering role in the recognition of prehistoric parietal art.
Cave at points of Aiguèze
Grotte ornée
30760 Aiguèze

The cave at the Pointes d'Aiguèze is a cave adorned with the Upper Paleolithic located in Aiguèze (Gard), famous for its rock paintings and its dermatoglyph handprints unique in Occitanie.
Cave of the Balauzière in Vers-Pont-du-Gard
Grotte préhistorique
30210 Vers-Pont-du-Gard

The Balauzière Cave, in Vers-Pont-du-Gard (Gard), is a prehistoric site occupied from Paleolithic to Neolithic, also home to a medieval hermitage in ruins today classified as a historical monument.
Salpêtrière cave in Vers-Pont-du-Gard
Abris sous roche
30210 Vers-Pont-du-Gard

The Salpêtrière Cave, a rock shelter in the Upper Paleolithic region of Remoulins (Gard), offers a major stratigraphy for the Mediterranean Midi. Ranked a historic monument in 1931, it illustrates the Salpetrian culture (~19,000 years).
Grotte d'habitation et shelter sous rois de la Crouzade à Gruissan
Abris sous roche
11430 Gruissan

The Crouzade Cave, located near Gruissan in the Aude, is a prehistoric rock shelter classified as a historical monument, famous for its Azilian painted pebbles and its neolithic Mussterian remains.
Leucate Fairy Cave
Grotte préhistorique
11370 Leucate

The Leucate Fairy Cave, located near the pond in the Aude, is a Gallo-Roman and Chalcolithic archaeological site classified historical monument since 1924.