Limeuil (prehistoric site)

At the close of the Upper Paleolithic the hunters had their encampment here below a small Santonian limestone ledge.

On other pieces bisons and wild horses are depicted, one even carries the image of a fox – a very rare theme for the Magdalenians.

The originality of the Limeuil site is clearly due to the roughly two hundred engravings executed on limestone slabs of different sizes.

The sheer number of slabs led André Leroi-Gourhan to the assumption that Limeuil might have been a sanctuary, an art workshop or even an “academy”.

There are no absolute dates for Limeuil, but the style of the engravings is clearly Magdalenian VI, so the art work is attributable to about 12.000 years BP.