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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
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Roman Paris was not in Paris, but Nanterre
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
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Britain and France in Dispute Over Cave Art
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/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/16/wart16.xml&sSheet=/news/200....
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Paleolithic Pit Stop
From Scientific American, French site suggests Neandertals and early modern humans behaved
similarly.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F0825-AC71-1C72-9EB7809EC588F2D7
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Cave Reveals Spectacular Secrets
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
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French Project
A multidisciplinary study of landscape evolution in Burgundy, France by the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/french/
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The Site de Castel-Merle
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.
http://www.castelmerle.com/
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Archaeologists Trace early Britons in Brittany
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://info.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/111297/news/story_6.htm
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Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
History of its discovery, and pictures of the finds, and the scientific research
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html
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Cosquer Cave
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
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The Cave of Lascaux
The French Ministry of Culture provides a virtual tour of this famous Paleolithic cave with text
links on its history and artwork.
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
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The Le Yaudet Project
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.
http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/schoolarch/institute/projects/leyaudet/
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Bliesbruck-Reinheim
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.
http://www.culture.fr/culture/editions/daf/guid32n.htm
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Archaeological Guides of France
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.fr/culture/editions/daf/guidarn.htm
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Tautavel Man
The French Ministry of Culture describes the discovery in a cave near Tautavel of one of the most
ancient humans presently known in Europe. The Museum of Tautavel: European Centre for Prehistory.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/tautavel/en/homme-fr.htm
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Excavations at Colletière
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
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Celtic Improvisations
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
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Glozel
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
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The Cave of Chauvet Pont-D'Arc
Decorated Paleolithic cave in the Ardèche region of France. The Ministry of Culture describes its
discovery, authentication and preservation. The context and research. Virtual tour.
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/
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The Loire Project
Aiming to study the interactions of the man and the environment in the Loire watershed during the
Holocene. In French with abstract in English.
http://www.brgm.fr/projet_loire/
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