{"id":99912,"date":"2025-09-25T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/42000-year-old-shell-jewelry-workshop-unearthed-at-the-paleolithic-site-in-france\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:49:41","slug":"42000-year-old-shell-jewelry-workshop-unearthed-at-the-paleolithic-site-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/42000-year-old-shell-jewelry-workshop-unearthed-at-the-paleolithic-site-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"42,000-Year-Old Shell Jewelry Workshop Unearthed At The Paleolithic Site In France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Conny Waters &#8211;<\/strong><strong> AncientPages.com &#8211; <\/strong>The discovery of the oldest shell jewelry workshop at the Paleolithic site of La Roche-\u00e0-Pierrot in Saint-C\u00e9saire, Charente-Maritime, offers significant insights into ancient craftsmanship. This site, dated to at least 42,000 years ago, features an assemblage that includes red and yellow pigments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chatelperronianculturesep24.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chatelperronianculturesep24.jpg\" alt=\"42,000-Year-Old Shell Jewelry Workshop Unearthed At The Paleolithic Site In France\" width=\"700\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chatelperronianculturesep24.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.ancientpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chatelperronianculturesep24-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>La Grotte des F\u00e9es\u00a0archaeological site (Allier, France), type site of\u00a0Ch\u00e2telperronian culture. Image credit: <span class=\"mw-mmv-author\">V. Mourre \/ Inrap &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em>CC BY-SA 4.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>It stands out as a unique find in Western Europe and may be linked to the Ch\u00e2telperronian culture that marks the transition from the last Neanderthals to the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v8.0&#038;appId=1629370863982098&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" nonce=\"QZiG0y67\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.4\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientpages.com\/2025\/09\/24\/42000-year-old-shell-jewelry-workshop-unearthed-at-the-paleolithic-site-in-france\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conny Waters &#8211; AncientPages.com &#8211; The discovery of the oldest shell jewelry workshop at the Paleolithic site of La Roche-\u00e0-Pierrot in Saint-C\u00e9saire, Charente-Maritime, offers significant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}