Caours

Caours
Caours
	Commune
	The town hall in Caours
	Location of Caours
	Caours Caours
	Coordinates: 50°07′53″N 1°52′59″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Abbeville
Canton	Abbeville-1
Intercommunality	CA Baie de Somme
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bernard Duquesne[1]
Area 1	6.13 km2 (2.37 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[2]	603
• Density	98/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	80171 /80132
Elevation	6–87 m (20–285 ft) ; (avg. 15 m or 49 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Caours is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

Caours is situated some 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Abbeville, on the D482 road heading towards Saint-Riquier.

Population

Historical population of Caours
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	358	358	508	567	599	592	610
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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. [3][4]

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.[5]

References

"Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Article sur le site de l'INRAP : Néandertal s'invite à l'Eémien Archived December 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (page consultée le 5 mars 2007)
Communiqué de presse de l'INRAP : Néandertal s'invite à l'Eémien Archived December 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (page consultée le 5 mars 2007)
Jean-Philippe Noël, « Neandertal. Le mystère de sa disparition s'épaissit », dans Science et Vie, no. 1074, mars 2007, pp. 86-88.

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[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.

[2] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[3] Article sur le site de l'INRAP : Néandertal s'invite à l'Eémien Archived December 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (page consultée le 5 mars 2007)

[4] Communiqué de presse de l'INRAP : Néandertal s'invite à l'Eémien Archived December 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (page consultée le 5 mars 2007)

[5] Jean-Philippe Noël, « Neandertal. Le mystère de sa disparition s'épaissit », dans Science et Vie, no. 1074, mars 2007, pp. 86-88.