Caours (; Picard: Cœu) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography Caours is situated some northeast of Abbeville, on the D482 road heading towards Saint-Riquier.
Population
History
Stone-age archaeology The fluvial deposits of the Somme around Caours have been well known to archaeologists in the latter part of the 20th century, are remains of a time when climate was more temperate. The last interglacial, once known under the name of Riss-Würm, was between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago. The area has produced the remains of mammals of this Paleolithic era, notably antlers and bone. A joint research programme by the INRAP and the CNRS in 2005, has produced interesting results about Neandertal man. Article sur le site de l'INRAP : Néandertal s'invite à l'Eémien (page consultée le 5 mars 2007)Communiqué de presse de l'INRAP : Néandertal s'invite à l'Eémien (page consultée le 5 mars 2007)
The theory that once explained the disappearance of the Neandertals, the inability to adapt to climatic change has suddenly been put into perspective by the site of Caours.Jean-Philippe Noël, « Neandertal. Le mystère de sa disparition s'épaissit », dans Science et Vie, no. 1074, mars 2007, pp. 86-88.
See also Communes of the Somme department
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