Grotte du Vallonnet | |
  location in France  Grotte du Vallonnet (France) | |
| Alternative name | Vallonnet cave |
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| Location | near Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, between Monaco and Menton |
| Region | Alpes-Maritimes Department, France |
| Coordinates | 43°45′51″N 7°28′11″E / 43.76417°N 7.46972°E |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1962 |
Grotte du Vallonnet is an archaeological site located near Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, between Monaco and Menton, in France, that was first discovered in 1958. Stone tools found at the site have been dated to between 1 and 1.05 million years old, making it one of the earliest sites of human settlement known in Europe.[1]
- ^ Henry de Lumley, La Grande Histoire des premiers européens, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2010, pg. 131. "La grotte du Vallonnet est bien l'un es plus anciens temoins de la presence de l'homme en Europe, dans un contexte stratigraphique bien daté, avec les sites de Pirro Nord, de Barranco Léon, de Fuente Neuva 3 and de la Sima del Elefante..."