Chancelade | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Périgueux |
Canton: | Coulounieix-Chamiers |
Insee: | 24102 |
Postal Code: | 24650 |
Mayor: | Pascal Serre[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Le Grand Périgueux |
Coordinates: | 45.2064°N 0.6661°W |
Elevation Min M: | 73 |
Elevation Max M: | 198 |
Area Km2: | 16.23 |
Chancelade (in French pronounced as /ʃɑ̃slad/; Occitan (post 1500);: Chancelada) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The village is the site of Chancelade Abbey.
The so-called "Chancelade man" was found in the nearby Raymonden rock shelter in 1888, the skeleton of an approximately 60-year-old male who was buried there in the Magdalenian, roughly 15,000 years ago.