Goyet (place)

Hamlet in Namur, Belgium From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Goyet is a hamlet of the municipality Gesves, Wallonia, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.[1]

View of Goyet New Castle

It is famous for Goyet Caves, with glacial remnants of Neandertals, Homo sapiens and canid.[2]

In 2016, two ancient hunter-gatherers that were excavated at Goyet were found to carry the M mtDNA haplogroup. The Late Pleistocene specimens were dated to 34,000 and 35,000 years ago.[3]

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