| Caours | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Arrondissement: | Abbeville |
| Canton: | Abbeville-1 |
| Insee: | 80171 |
| Postal Code: | 80132 |
| Mayor: | Bernard Duquesne[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | CA Baie de Somme |
| Coordinates: | 50.1314°N 1.8831°W |
| Elevation M: | 15 |
| Elevation Min M: | 6 |
| Elevation Max M: | 87 |
| Area Km2: | 6.13 |
Caours (in French pronounced as /ka.uʁ/; Picard: Cœu) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Caours is situated some 3miles northeast of Abbeville, on the D482 road heading towards Saint-Riquier.
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.[2] [3]
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.[4]