Goyet Caves
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The Goyet Caves (French: Grottes de Goyet) are a series of connected caves located in Belgium in a limestone cliff about 15 m (50 ft) above the river Samson near the village of Mozet in the Gesves municipality of the Namur province. The site is a significant locality of regional Neanderthal and European early modern human occupation, as thousands of fossils and artifacts were discovered that are all attributed to a long and contiguous stratigraphic sequence from 120,000 years ago, the Middle Paleolithic to less than 5,000 years ago, the late Neolithic. A robust sequence of sediments was identified during extensive excavations by geologist Edouard Dupont, who undertook the first probings as early as 1867.[1][2] The site was added to the Belgian National Heritage register in 1976.
Grottes de Goyet | |
Alternative name | Caves of Goyet |
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Location | near Mozet village |
Region | Samson river valley, Gesves municipality Namur province, Belgium |
Coordinates | 50°26′48″N 5°00′32″E |
Type | carboniferous limestone |
Length | 250 m (820.21 ft) |
History | |
Material | limestone Karst |
Periods | Middle Palaeolithic to Iron Age |
Cultures | Aurignacian, Gravettian, Magdalenian |
Associated with | Neanderthals, Homo sapiens |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1867, |
Archaeologists | Edouard Dupont |