Montespan

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Palaeolithic cave site in Haute-Garonne, French Pyrenees, which has a deep central cave with traces of probable (middle) Magdalenian engravings on the walls. There is also a series of clay statues and bas-reliefs. It is famous for a modeled clay body of a life-sized bear or bear cub, probably originally covered with a bear pelt and apparently speared in ritual ceremonies.

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The deep central Pyrenean cave of Ganties-Montespan has traces of probably Magdalenian engravings, but it is mainly famous for a modelled clay body of a life-sized bear or bear cub, probably originally covered with a bear pelt and apparently speared in ritual ceremonies.

The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied

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