Object description

The Noisetier Cave , owing its popular name to the Hazel trees that grow in front of its entrance, is located in a mountainside 145 m atop the Vallée d'Aure in the Ardengost commune, Hautes-Pyrénées department in the region Occitania, southern France. During systematic excavations since 1992 Middle Paleolithic stone tools and artifacts attributed to the Neanderthal Mousterian culture were discovered among numerous faunal remains.