Place:Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne, France

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NameLes Eyzies-de-Tayac
Alt namesLes Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Les Eyziessource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
Les Eyzies-de-Tayacsource: Family History Library Catalog
Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuilsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Tayacsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeCommune
Coordinates44.933°N 1.016°E
Located inDordogne, France
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Les Eyzies.

Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil lies in the Périgord Noir area. It is served by the Gare des Eyzies railway station. This locale is home to the (National Museum of Prehistory) and the area contains several important archaeological sites, including the Font-de-Gaume, and Lascaux cave prehistoric rock dwellings. The many prehistoric sites and cave paintings in the area were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley in 1979.

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History

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In March 1868, the geologist Louis Lartet, financed by Henry Christy, discovered the first five skeletons of Cro-Magnons, the earliest known examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, in the Cro-Magnon rock shelter at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac. These skeletons included a foetus, and the skulls found were remarkably modern-looking and much rounder than the earlier Neanderthal.

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