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Excavation ongoing places tagged “paleolithic”

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Megaliths

🇵🇹Portugal

Excavation ongoing

🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Niaux Cave

Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian ~14–13 ka BP · Magdalenian hunter-gatherer

Magdalenian Salon Noir cave with 14 ka charcoal bison and ibex deep in the Ariège Pyrenees.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art

Côa Valley Rock Art

Upper Paleolithic to Iron Age (~25,000 BCE – 1000 BCE; main 20,000–10,000 BCE) · Solutrean/Magdalenian to Atlantic Iron Age

Largest open-air Paleolithic art complex known, spread over 17 km of the Côa tributary with over 1,000 engraved schist panels bearing thousands of zoomorphs.