BORDEAUX HISTORY
A Brief History of Bordeaux
Part
1: Bordeaux Prehistory
Between 30,000 and 90,000 years ago the area of Bordeaux was inhabited by the
homo neanderthalensis. 
The first signs of life in this region are still visible
in a famous cave north of Bordeaux known as Pair-Non-Pair, near Bourg sur Gironde.
The Grotte de Pair-Non-Pair was discovered on March 6, 1881, and is decorated
with wall engravings of horses, ibex, goats, various types of deer, mammoths
and bovines dating from the Aurignacian period (between 33,000 and 26,000 BC).
The people of the Neolithic and Copper ages also left us reminders of their habitation of the region around Bordeaux such as the Curton dolmen in Jugazan and the 5 metre high Menhir de Pierrefitte of Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens, the biggest single, upright standing stone in southwest France.
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