Caours

Caours
Caours
Location within Picardy region Caours
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Abbeville
Canton	Abbeville-Nord
Intercommunality	L'Abbevillois
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Nadine Tahon
Area1	6.13 km2 (2.37 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	610
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
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. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Caours is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie 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.

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.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Caours on the Quid website (French)