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Jean Merlet, « Brassempouy : la collection De Laporterie au Musée de Dax », Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française (documents), ID : 10.3406/bspf.1990.9438
J. de Laporterie participation in the excavations at Brassempouy was overshadowed by Piette's personality. It resulted however in particular in the constitution of a collection, which remained practically unknown until fairly recently. Examination of this collection confirms the wealth of the Grotte du Pape and the Grotte des Hyènes, especially regarding bone artefacts. The presence among the lithic artefacts of a flat-sided Solutrean point provides a new argument in favour of the existence of early phases of the Solutrean culture in the Pyrenean region.