Science: Archaeology: Regional: Europe: France

Aiming to study the interactions of the man and the environment in the Loire watershed during the Holocene. In French with abstract in English.

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.

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.

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.

History of its discovery, and pictures of the finds, and the scientific research

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.

Cro-Magnon camp site located at the Sergiac just 9 km south of Monignac-Laseaux on the left bank of the Vazere. Illustrated description of the site; Castel-Merle Museum.

From the BBC, French archaeologists find a cave in the Dordogne covered with drawings which they think are almost 30,000 years old.

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.

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.

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.

Cutting stone or metallic tools, usually regarded as sickles or sickle elements from their morphology alone, are not necessarily linked to the harvest. They may have been used to cut any kind of plant material.