Waterfront SpotWaterfront SpotGrotte de l'Escale
Saint-Estève-Janson
🚧"completely fenced" and inaccessible
🦁Excavations found lions, wolves, lynx, wild goats
📅Sediment dates between 730,000-600,000 years old
One of Europe's oldest human sites, where Stone Age tools and remains of Ice Age lions and lynx lie in 700,000-year-old sediment. Discovered during canal construction in 1960.
Ancient cave site
Paleolithic archaeology
Hidden local gem
Prehistoric animal fossils
Waterfront SpotWaterfront SpotGrotte de l'Escale
Saint-Estève-Janson
🚧"completely fenced" and inaccessible
🦁Excavations found lions, wolves, lynx, wild goats
📅Sediment dates between 730,000-600,000 years old
One of Europe's oldest human sites, where Stone Age tools and remains of Ice Age lions and lynx lie in 700,000-year-old sediment. Discovered during canal construction in 1960.
Ancient cave site
Paleolithic archaeology
Hidden local gem
Prehistoric animal fossils