Combe-Capelle

Combe-Capelle
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Combe-Capelle is a Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic site in the Couze valley, Périgord, Southern France, with Henri-Marc Ami conducting excavations there from the late 1920s until his death in 1931 [1]. In 1909, a notable Homo sapiens fossil was discovered at the site and sold to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin in 1910 [1]. The specimen was long classified as a 30,000-year-old Upper Paleolithic Cro-Magnon individual, representing one of the earliest known modern human finds in Europe [1].

TypeCity/town/settlement
Period< 4500 BC
CountryFrance
Coordinates44.7529° N, 0.8487° E

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