Châtelperron

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of Châtelperron

(2020–2026) Maria Schneider^[1]Area

20.8 km² (8.0 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

133 • Density6.4/km² (17/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

03067 /03220

Elevation234–352 m (768–1,155 ft)
(avg. 253 m or 830 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Châtelperron (French pronunciation: [ʃatɛlpɛʁɔ̃]) is a commune in the central French department of Allier.

It is the location of the site known as La Grotte des Fées.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	287	—
1975	250	−1.95%
1982	219	−1.87%
1990	189	−1.82%
1999	137	−3.51%
2007	141	+0.36%
2012	155	+1.91%
2017	146	−1.19%
Source: INSEE^[7]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Montagu, M. F. Ashley (1949). "The Châtelperron Skull; A Rediscovered Human Skull-Cap from the French Early Upper Palaeolithic". American Anthropologist. 51 (2). New Series: 328–329. doi:10.1525/aa.1949.51.2.02a00260. PMID 18153432.
^ Delporte, H.; Surmely, F.; Urgal, A. (1999). Châtelperron, un grand gisement préhistorique de l'Allier. Archéologie en Auvergne (in French). Clermont-Ferrand: Conseil Général de l'Allier, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d'Auvergne, and Association pour le Développement de l'Archéologie en Auvergne.
^ Mellars, Paul; Brad Gravina, Bronk (27 February 2007). "Confirmation of Neanderthal/modern human interstratification at the Chatelperronian type-site". PNAS. 104 (9): 3657–3662. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104.3657M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608053104. PMC 1805566. PMID 17360698.
^ Zilhão, J.; d'Errico, F.; Bordes, J.-G.; Lenoble, A.; Texier, J.-P.; Rigaud, J.-P. (2006). "Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Chatelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals". PNAS. 103 (33): 12643–12648. doi:10.1073/pnas.0605128103. PMC 1567932. PMID 16894152.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE