Madeleine
Posted: November 27, 2008
Filed under: Troglodytes
Tagged: aquitaine, canoe, dordogne, dwelling place, dwellings, fortresses, limestone cliffs, madeleine, medieval times, prehistoric man, rock shelter, vezere, vezere river
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Why did men settle on the banks of the Vezere for over 400, 000 years?
First of all for the quality of life. But also because nature always provided food and shelter.
Under the effect of erosion, the limestone cliffs hollowed out. These shelters were used by all the men who followed one another through the Aquitaine. Prehistoric man found there an easy natural dwelling place and in medieval times, fortresses and villages were built there.
At the bottom of the well-positioned cliff along the Vezere River(South, Southwest) groups of hunters settled under a rock shelter. The community grew and was continnously inhabited until the end of the ice era, 10,000 years ago.
The Madeleine and lots more can be seen on Walking Dordogne’s ” Canoe & Hike the Vezere” trip and
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