Pech-de-l'Azé cave

The Pech-de-l'Azé caves are a prehistoric site located in the French commune of Carsac-Aillac, in the Dordogne department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France.

An occupational sequence from the so-called Meridional Acheulian, followed by a variety of Mousterian industries was discernable.

It is a very small empty cave that is thought once contained a sequence corresponding to the earlier part of the Pech II (Bordes and Bourgon, 1951).

It has a long sequence of occupations spanning a period of about 45,000 to 55,000 years during the last Ice Age (Pleistocene epoch).

Its bottom deposit layers contain numerous hearths, which are not commonly found in European archaeological sites from this time period.