• ''L'Homme primitif'' is a statue by
Paul Dardé, inaugurated in 1931 and placed on a natural platform that dominates the village of Les Eyzies; It can be approached during the visit of the National Museum of Prehistory.
Natural Sites • Grotte du Grand Roc, cave with natural eccentric crystallisations comparable to corals.
Prehistoric sites The municipality has many prehistoric archaeological sites including: • The
Grotte de Font-de-Gaume, the last cave with prehistoric polychrome paintings still open to visit in the region •
Les Combarelles - 600 pre-historic engravings of animals and symbols • Grotte de la Mouthe - ornate cave of the Upper Paleolithic period • La Grotte de Bernifal • The deposit of
La Micoque - discovery of numerous testimonies of the
lithic industries of the Paleolithic (
Tayacian,
Micoquien and
Mousterian) • Abri Chadourne, named after its owner • L'abri Audi •
L'abri de Cro-Magnon, the eponymous site of the Cro-Magnon man. •
L'abri Pataud, a site studied under the responsibility of the National Museum of Natural History. The stratigraphic sequences comprises Upper Paleolithic levels, in particular, from bottom to top,
Aurignacian,
Gravettian, and Protomagdalénien •
Laugerie-Basse and Laugerie-Haute - paleolithic sites • L'abri du Poisson - carved in low relief at the ceiling of the vault, raised in red colour a salmon • Le vallon de Gorge d'enfer - ( private site ) - home to the grand abri and the vallée éternelle scientific research foundation. • Les grottes du Roc de Cazelle constitute a troglodytic site occupied from prehistoric times until 1960. Many of these sites have been classified as
World Heritage Sites by
UNESCO as
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley. The discovery of these shelters within a restricted radius around Les Eyzies, their methodical exploration and the study of the deposits they concealed allowed prehistory to build up as a science and explains why the city claims the status of world capital of the prehistory, as the publicity leaflets recall.
Museum The National Museum of Prehistory, where many prehistoric discoveries are preserved, is located in the heart of the village. Very rich in carved flints, it is especially aimed at specialists.
Historical Sites •
Château de Commarque, 12th century, 14th century, 15th century, classified. •
Château de Tayac and its dependencies, 12th century 14th century 15th century. ==Personalities related to the municipality==