Le-Moustier: The type site
Le Moustier is an important archaeological and paleoanthropological site in southwestern France. The site consists of two rock shelters in the Dordogne region. Excavations began in the 1860's at Le Moustier; with the finding of a large number of lithic artifacts the site became the type site for the Mousterian lithic industry. The site gained world renown with the discovery of two Neanderthal skeletons: the skull and long bones of an adolescent in 1908, and a nearly completed skeleton of a newborn in 1914.
