Caours

Caours (French pronunciation: [ka.uʁ]; Picard: Cœu) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Caours
Commune
The town hall in Caours
Location of Caours
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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  (2021)	581
• Density	94.8/km2 (245/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.

Geography

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

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	388	—
1975	508	+3.92%
1982	567	+1.58%
1990	599	+0.69%
1999	592	−0.13%
2007	598	+0.13%
2012	610	+0.40%
2017	603	−0.23%
Source: INSEE[2]

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]

See also

• Communes of the Somme department