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Abri de La Madeleine

Name: Abri de La Madeleine
Rating: 2

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Location: Tursac, Sarlat-La-Canéda, New Aquitaine, France

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1. Loop between la Roque-Saint-Christophe and la Madeleine

18.4km

01:19

320m

310m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. La Roque Saint-Christophe – Maison forte de Reignac loop from Tursac

31.8km

02:04

410m

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3. Abri de La Madeleine – Font de Gaume Cave loop from Tursac

19.5km

01:18

280m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Kanne & Co

October 12, 2022

La Madeleine is a settlement site in present-day France that was used for thousands of years up until the early modern period. It was laid out about 5 km north-east of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil on a narrow loop of the Vézère.
For the Upper Palaeolithic period of the Magdalenian period, this important find site acts as a type locality. It is located in the lower abri (rock overhang) below the chapel dedicated to Saint Magdalene of the troglodyte village.
Around 17,000 years ago, Cro-Magnon people settled in the rock shelters beneath the south-facing cliffs of La Madeleine near the River Vézère. These offered natural protection against the effects of the weather, and the southern orientation warmed the settlement site.
The emergence of the troglodytic settlements on the cliffs of La Madeleine in the 8th century has been proven.

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JakobusPilger

August 8, 2024

Here we have the situation – previously completely unknown to me and therefore surprising – that MADELEINE, a Christian saint (the name is derived from the biblical "Mary Magdalene"), has become the namesake of an era from the proverbial "dim prehistory" (one to one and a half dozen millennia before the beginning of our era). To paraphrase it from Wikipedia, which can explain it better than I can: "The Magdalenian is an archaeological cultural stage in the younger part of the Upper Paleolithic in Central and Western Europe at the end of the last Ice Age. The Magdalenian was named in 1869 by Gabriel de Mortillet after the semi-cave La Madeleine in the Dordogne department. It spanned an approximate period from approximately 18,000 to 12,000 BC."

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Location: Tursac, Sarlat-La-Canéda, New Aquitaine, France

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Abri de La Madeleine

1. Loop between la Roque-Saint-Christophe and la Madeleine

2. La Roque Saint-Christophe – Maison forte de Reignac loop from Tursac

3. Abri de La Madeleine – Font de Gaume Cave loop from Tursac

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