International audienceNear to the village of Pageas, in Haute-Vienne (Limousin, France), the archaeological site of the "Bois Pargas" was discovered after the violent storms of the end of the year 1999, by the finding of artefacts into the stump of a reversed chestnut tree. A small excavation bring to the fore that the tree grew on a Neolithic pit. Although no organic remains are preserved, the archaeological artefacts let us interpret the structure as a pseudo megalithic monument. The funerary pit contained six Pressignian flint daggers, along with arrowheads, "scies à coches", ceramics and some ornaments. All theses artefacts are typical of the IIIrd millennium BC and the technological analysis of the daggers discriminates two times of pr...
International audienceBetween 1995 and 2004 quarrying by the aggregate extraction company Cemex over...
National audienceExcavations in Vignely on an isolated cylindrical pit dating from the Late Neolithi...
International audienceSince 1975, systematic survey of the Champ-Villars site, close to the Saône, d...
International audienceNear to the village of Pageas, in Haute-Vienne (Limousin, France), the archaeo...
The archaeological site of «Bois Pargas», near the village of Pageas in Haute-Vienne (Limousin, Fran...
National audiencePedestrian prospecting and excavations carried out in 2006 on the spur of Pauquet i...
National audienceDitch and palisade sites are one of the most remarkable architectural manifestation...
This monument was erected in a trench, during the recent Neolithic, and was used for six or eight hu...
Until quite recently, the Limousin dolmens were looked upon as simple chamber tombs which had contai...
The large grave mounds from the Carnac region are among the most impressive funeral architecture of ...
International audienceBetween 1995 and 2004 quarrying by the aggregate extraction company Cemex over...
National audienceExcavations in Vignely on an isolated cylindrical pit dating from the Late Neolithi...
International audienceSince 1975, systematic survey of the Champ-Villars site, close to the Saône, d...
International audienceNear to the village of Pageas, in Haute-Vienne (Limousin, France), the archaeo...
The archaeological site of «Bois Pargas», near the village of Pageas in Haute-Vienne (Limousin, Fran...
National audiencePedestrian prospecting and excavations carried out in 2006 on the spur of Pauquet i...
National audienceDitch and palisade sites are one of the most remarkable architectural manifestation...
This monument was erected in a trench, during the recent Neolithic, and was used for six or eight hu...
Until quite recently, the Limousin dolmens were looked upon as simple chamber tombs which had contai...
The large grave mounds from the Carnac region are among the most impressive funeral architecture of ...
International audienceBetween 1995 and 2004 quarrying by the aggregate extraction company Cemex over...
National audienceExcavations in Vignely on an isolated cylindrical pit dating from the Late Neolithi...
International audienceSince 1975, systematic survey of the Champ-Villars site, close to the Saône, d...