The Valorguien is a cultural facies of the Préhistoire, more precisely of the Épipaléolithique. At one time called Romanellien of Provence, it is contemporary and homologous with the Azilien but is characterized some in particular by the absence from Harpon. It was defined by max Escalon de Fonton starting from the industry of the shelter of Valorgues, located on the commune of Saint-Quentin-the-Pottery.

It covers the littoral of the Eastern Languedoc (site éponyme) and of the Western Provence (in the Rhone delta, sites of Saint-Marcel on the commune of Marseilles, the Cornille shelter and the Capeau shelter on the commune of Istres, of the Arnoux shelter on the commune of Saint-Chamas and of Marcouline on the commune of Cassis) as well as the Low Rhone (site of the Barns of Wonders II on the commune of Rochefort-of-Gard in the Gard).

Valorguien is dated from 10th and 9th millenia before J. - C. and is located in the climatic phase of the Alleröd.

It yields then the place to the cultural facies of the Montadien.

Reference

• Escalon de Fonton, Mr. and Al (1979) “industries of filiation magdalénienne in the south-east of France, their geochronologic positions and faunas”, in: glacial End of time , pp. 269-286.