International audienceThis work presents the results of the excavation carried out in 2004 on part of the shelter of La Tour Fondue at Chauriat (fig. 1). The aim of this intervention was to specify the chronological and stratigraphic position of the human settlements, to characterize them at a cultural level and to establish the local paleoenvironment. The sedimentary deposits were more than 3.20 m high (fig. 5 to 7). The lower set (levels 5 to 3b) yielded Mousterian industry and fauna. The upper set yielded Chatelperronian industry and fauna (level 3a) and some lithic artefacts which belong to an unidentified Upper Paleolithic settlement (level 2). The paleontological studies demonstrated the essentially anthropological character of the bo...