Abstract Located on the same hillside as Pech Merle, 800 metres from the entrance of that famous decorated cave, the site of Petit Cloup Barrat opens onto the edge of a small doline. Though partially excavated at the beginning of the 20th century, this site has never been published. A test pit in 2003 was followed by excavations at the entrance of the cave in 2004 and 2005. The stratigraphic sequence, whose base is still unknown, yielded abundant lithic and organic remains attributed to the Middle Magdalenian, Badegoulian and Solutrean. In the upper ensemble, attributed to the Middle Magdalenian, numerous flint blade tools (scrapers, burins, borers and retouched blades) coexist with backed bladelets. The Badegoulian is identified based on ...