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France (18)
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Monographs published by the French Ministry of Culture on prehistoric or ancient sites or towns, or describing the ruins of a region. Abstracts online.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/anglais.htm
The Oxford University Gazette reports that excavations at Le Yaudet under Profs. Barry Cunliffe and Patrick Galliou suggest that Britons fled there from the West Country.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/111297/news/story_6.htm
From the Telegraph, British claim the French may have exaggerated their age by 18,000 years under official pressure to promote them as the oldest cave paintings in the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1444305/Britain-and-France-in-dispute-over-cave-art.html
From the BBC, French archaeologists find a cave in the Dordogne covered with drawings which they think are almost 30,000 years old.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1423021.stm
An illustrated art-historical analysis of coins of the Coriosolites of Brittany by John Hooker, based on the La Marquanderie hoard from Jersey. Maps of hoard discoveries and mint zones.
http://www.writer2001.com/improvisations.htm
History of its discovery, and pictures of the finds, and the scientific research
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html
The French Ministry of Culture describes a Paleolithic art gallery in a cave that can be accessed only through a 175-meter tunnel beneath sea level. Photographs of the animal drawings and hand stencils that decorate it.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/archeosm/en/fr-cosqu1.htm
From the Chronicle, life-sized statue of a warrior discovered in southern France reflects a stronger cultural influence for the Etruscan civilization throughout the western Mediterranean region than previously appreciated.
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040219/statue.shtml
A working group is reconstructing the development of the landscape after the ice-ages with the aid of archeological finds and soil and sediment analyses. The Park includes the Roman villa of Reinheim and the Roman city of Bliesbruck.
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak5/physgeo/Reinheim/GAe2.html
The French Ministry of Culture describes the 'farmer-knights' who settled c.1010 CE on the wooded shores of Paladru lake and the techniques that have uncovered the evidence for them.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/charavines/en/index.htm
Provides photographs and information on the cave paintings of southern France.
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/france/
A multidisciplinary study of landscape evolution in Burgundy, France by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/french/
Illustrated description of a grave dated 700-100 CE, containing clay tablets with signs on them suggestive of an alphabet.
http://www.gerbeaud.com/glozel/gbintroduction.htm
Photographs and information on what may be the most beautiful Paleolithic painted cave in the world.
http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterOne/LascauxCave.htm
Provides photographs and information on the cave, its mineralogy and archeology.
http://www.grotte-de-foissac.com/acceuilenglish.htm
From Expatica, historic Paris, the Gallic town of Lutetia captured by Julius Caesar in 52 BCE, lay not on the island in the centre of the modern French capital but in a suburb 10 kilometres to the west.
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=5092
Maps and 3D images, objects, a slide show, games, animations and educational materials reveal the city's portrait and its shape as it changed over time. Includes details of the town's archaeological unit and its work.
http://www.saint-denis.culture.fr/
The French Ministry of Culture provides a virtual tour of this famous Paleolithic cave with text links on its history and artwork.
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/
Last Updated: 2009-12-03 17:43:58
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