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.

Decorated Paleolithic cave in the Ardche region of France. The Ministry of Culture describes its discovery, authentication and preservation. The context and research. Virtual tour.

Illustrated description of a grave dated 700-100 CE, containing clay tablets with signs on them suggestive of an alphabet.

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.

Monographs published by the French Ministry of Culture on prehistoric or ancient sites or towns, or describing the ruins of a region. Abstracts online.

Abstract of a monograph by Jean Schaub et al on this European archaeological park, which contains the 4th century BCE princess of Reinheim's sumptuous grave, among other Celtic remains.

The Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, describes Barry Cunliffe's excavations at the prehistoric to modern site of Le Yaudet in Brittany. Research design, previous discoveries, program and results so far.

The French Ministry of Culture provides a virtual tour of this famous Paleolithic cave with text links on its history and artwork.

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.

A multidisciplinary study of landscape evolution in Burgundy, France by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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.