Le Rozel | |
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_vue_du_village.jpg) The village | |
 Location of Le Rozel | |
  Le Rozel  Le Rozel | |
| Coordinates:49°29′16″N1°49′39″W / 49.4878°N 1.8275°W /49.4878; -1.8275 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Manche |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg |
| Canton | Les Pieux |
| Intercommunality | CA Cotentin |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Noël Lamotte[1] |
Area 1 | 5.52 km2 (2.13 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 244 |
| • Density | 44.2/km2 (114/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 50442 /50340 |
| Elevation | 0–102 m (0–335 ft) (avg. 20 m or 66 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Le Rozel (French pronunciation:[ləʁozɛl]) is acommune in theManchedepartment inNormandy in north-westernFrance.
ItsINSEE number is 50442, and itspostal code is 50340.
Neanderthals are thought to have been in the area, around 80,000 years ago, with evidence provided by 257 footprints fossilised in sandy mud alongside other archaeological material, excavated between 2012 and 2017.[3][4] Most of the footprints were small and clearly made by children (10-14 people). The discovery at Le Rozel is the largest of rare fossil footprints of thehominin. Technically, some of the footprints were isolated one after another and 88 of them were complete footprints, having a length range between 11.4 cm (4.5 in) and 28.7 cm (11.3 in).[5][6][7][8]
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