A site dating from the Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian period) attests to a human presence of Neandertals in a small cove dug in the granite on the heights of Saint-Germain-en Vaux in the Manche department. The second interglacial half (100,000 to 35,000 years BC) was accompanied by the manufacture of lithic tools such as points and scrapers from flint. Normandy was then home to an astonishing fauna of mammoths, woolly rhinos, bears, reindeers, and giant deers. Hearth areas were also found above the current location of the small site of Port Racine.