Le Regourdou

Le Regourdou is an archaeological site in the Dordogne department, France, on top of a hill just 800 m from the famous cave complex of Lascaux [1]. At this now collapsed 35 m deep ancient karst cavity remarkably well preserved Neanderthal fossils were recovered, that might be skeletal remains of deliberate burials [1]. The site of Regourdou was discovered by chance in 1954 by its owner, Roger Constant [1]. Apart from a Neanderthal skeleton discovered in 1957, excavator Eugène Bonifay found a large number of brown bear bones, several pits and stone platforms that contained bear bones [1].