 This and other ceremonial sites have funerary goods which show activity of trade across Europe.In 1827 Paul Tournal, a local amateur archaeologist, found early human bones and other remains (about 6000 years old) in a cave near Bize Minervois, 20 km east of Caunes.Tournal went on to found the Commission Archéologique et Littéraire de Narbonne and was Secretary until he died.