Prehistoric "abris sous roche" - Roque Saint Christophe (Peyzac-le-Moustier/FR)
It's hard to capture the full size of this abri, the site in this view streches even more to the left.
Photo: Prehistoric "abris sous roche" - by © Richard Poppelaars #About_Pixels #Photography (Nikon D90) / #limestone #cliff #dwelling - #abri #prehistory #UNESCO / #History at #LaRoqueStChristophe #RoqueSaintChristophe in #PeyzacleMoustier, #Dordogne - #France
La Roque Saint-Christophe (Abri) (Settlements, Neolithic period 55000BP- destruction 1588), photo August 2013 after 57013 years.
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Peyzac-le-Moustier: Roque Saint Christophe - History
La Roque Saint-Christophe (one of the 147 exceptional prehistoric UNESCO sites since 1979) is a large limestone rock with rock dwellings (abris sous-roche in French) along the river Vézère near Peyzac-le-Moustier in the Dordogne region. The cliff is one kilometer long and towers over the road below and the river Vézère at about a hundred meters. The rock has five terraces that were created on the one hand by the erosion of the river water 60 million years ago and on the other hand by the action of frost on the limestone during the ice ages of the Quaternary era.
The earliest dating is the Moustérien period, the caves, dating from the Middle Paleolithic era, were first inhabited as a shelter in the Neolithic period. There are traces that people already lived here 55,000 years ago and a skeleton of a Neanderthal of about 40,000 years old has been discovered. People also lived there in the Iron Age, remains such as tools and an engraving of a Madonna from the Gallo-Roman era from the first century AD. In 976 it became a fortress to protect against the Normans. During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) the fortress served as a fortress against the English. In the sixteenth century, the city and the fortress were occupied by the Protestant Huguenots. Finally in 1588, the Catholic French King Henry III ordered expulsion and the complete destruction of the structures and the fortifications.
Nowadays, reconstructions show what life must have been like in the fortress, such as the medieval construction site, forge, drum winch (a kind of winch), quarry, armory and a kitchen from the year 1000 of the fortress.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Saint-Christophe.
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Prehistoric "abris sous roche" - Roque Saint Christophe (Peyzac-le-Moustier/FR)
It's hard to capture the full size of this abri, the site in this view streches even more to the left.
Photo: Prehistoric "abris sous roche" - by © Richard Poppelaars #About_Pixels #Photography (Nikon D90) / #limestone #cliff #dwelling - #abri #prehistory #UNESCO / #History at #LaRoqueStChristophe #RoqueSaintChristophe in #PeyzacleMoustier, #Dordogne - #France
La Roque Saint-Christophe (Abri) (Settlements, Neolithic period 55000BP- destruction 1588), photo August 2013 after 57013 years.
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Peyzac-le-Moustier: Roque Saint Christophe - History
La Roque Saint-Christophe (one of the 147 exceptional prehistoric UNESCO sites since 1979) is a large limestone rock with rock dwellings (abris sous-roche in French) along the river Vézère near Peyzac-le-Moustier in the Dordogne region. The cliff is one kilometer long and towers over the road below and the river Vézère at about a hundred meters. The rock has five terraces that were created on the one hand by the erosion of the river water 60 million years ago and on the other hand by the action of frost on the limestone during the ice ages of the Quaternary era.
The earliest dating is the Moustérien period, the caves, dating from the Middle Paleolithic era, were first inhabited as a shelter in the Neolithic period. There are traces that people already lived here 55,000 years ago and a skeleton of a Neanderthal of about 40,000 years old has been discovered. People also lived there in the Iron Age, remains such as tools and an engraving of a Madonna from the Gallo-Roman era from the first century AD. In 976 it became a fortress to protect against the Normans. During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) the fortress served as a fortress against the English. In the sixteenth century, the city and the fortress were occupied by the Protestant Huguenots. Finally in 1588, the Catholic French King Henry III ordered expulsion and the complete destruction of the structures and the fortifications.
Nowadays, reconstructions show what life must have been like in the fortress, such as the medieval construction site, forge, drum winch (a kind of winch), quarry, armory and a kitchen from the year 1000 of the fortress.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Saint-Christophe.
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Published at - Flickr