Palaeolithic sites

Books and links: Webliography/Web references: Palaeolithic sites

Searching for Palaeolithic sites turns up book adverts and excavation projects but there are few resources like this one for Creswell Crags. Some of the best may be found via the French government culture site: www.culture.fr . Those dealing with painted caves are listed below under art. For other, go to the site home page and click on the link: Portail sites web artistiques culturels et scientifique. When you reach the next page, enter the name of the site or museum which interests you in the box labelled: recherche. This will connect you to hyperlinks to the relevant material. For example, if you search on La Chapelle aux Saints, a site near Brive which contained a burial of a Neanderthal, you will find a link to the site museum. Follow the link to find the story of the discovery and how the skeleton influenced ideas about the Neanderthals at the turn of the last century, as well as a picture tour of the little gallery. These links usually offer English, as well as French, German and Italian texts. Includes tourist information.

www.insticeagestudies.com : Although the Institute of Ice Age Studies sounds like a major organisation, it is not an academic institution in its own right but an association formed to support palaeoanthropological work on the Pleistocene. The editorial is provided by its director, Dr Randall White of New York University, an authority on Upper Palaeolithic personal ornaments and female figurines. The site concentrates on White's work at Abri Castanet an important Aurignacian site in southwest France, as well as his research on the figurines from Gargarino. A good site for following the progress of some important research projects.

For information on famous sites try one of the encyclopaedias. These give concise information, web links and bibliographic references to many archaeological sites.

Other Palaeolithic sites in the UK which you can visit include Kents Cavern in Devon.

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