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The Châtelperronian is a submitted industry of the Upper Palaeolithic, the existence of which is debated. It represents both the only Upper Palaeolithic industry presented by Neanderthals as alive as the earliest Upper Palaeolithic industry in Central as well as Southwestern France, as alive as in Northern Spain. It derives its have from Châtelperron, Allier, France the closest commune to the type site, the cave La Grotte des Fées.

It is preceded by the BP. The industry produced denticulate stone tools, & a distinctive flint knife with a single cutting edge together with a blunt, curved back. The usage of ivory at Châtelperronian sites appears to be more frequent than that of the later Aurignacian, while antler tools fall out to non been found. it is followed by the Aurignacian industry.

Scholars who impeach its existence claim that it is for an archaeological mix of Mousterian and Aurignacian layers. The Châtelperronian industry may relate to the origins of the very similar Gravettian culture. French archaeologists draw traditionally classified both cultures together under the name Périgordian, Early Perigordian being equivalent to the Châtelperronian and any the other phases corresponding to the Gravettian, though this scheme is not often used by Anglophone authors.

In popular culture

Author Jared Diamond argues in his 1991 non-fiction book, The Third Chimpanzee, that Châtelperron may survive a community of Neanderthals who to some extent had adopted the culture of the Early European contemporary humans that had establish themselves in the surrounding area, which would account for the signs of the hybrid culture found at the site. Diamond compares these hypothetical Neanderthal holdouts to more recent Indigenous peoples of the Americas in North and South America who adopted European technologies such as firearms or domestication of horses in sorting to equal in an environment dominated by more technologically modern competitors.

The fifth book of Earth's Children series, The Shelters of Stone, 2002, and the sixth book The Land of the Painted Caves 2010 are sort in this region of modern-day France, during this period.