Amongst the large menhirs erected as open-air sanctuaries in the 5th millennium BC on the present-day peninsula of Locmariaquer in the Gulf of Morbihan, the stèle aux bovidés stands out by the uniqueness of its horned animal figures in the engraved art of the Armorican Neolithic - whence its name - and by its «megalithic puzzle» aspect. The ornamentation of this monolith, originally more rock art than parietal art, cut into sections and reused in various dolmen capstones, presents a couple of animal outlines that are exceptional on more than one level. While the transformation of the famous quadruped of the Table-des-Marchand into a horned animal, after adding the truncated horns of the Gavrinis passage grave, is at the origin of the theore...
The present contribution is above all a reasoned inventory of testimonies of megalithic art in Aquit...
Substantial deposits of bovine horn-cores have been found at Levroux, as they have at numerous roman...
International audienceThe statue-menhir of Puech de la Cabane was lying in a cellar paired in a habi...
Amongst the large menhirs erected as open-air sanctuaries in the 5th millennium BC on the present-da...
International audienceThe cave of La Mairie in Teyjat (Dordogne) offers a parietal device constitute...
[EN] Gavrinis, on the estuary of the river Vannes (Brittany, France), is known for the extraordinary...
A reconsideration of the shrine and the Iron Age engravings from the Caisses oppidum (Mouriès, B.du-...
The Roc-aux-Sorciers site, on the townland of Angles-sur-l’Anglin, contains two localities with cave...
International audienceAbstract The purpose of this article is to present an inventory of certain fau...
International audienceE. Cartailhac and H. Breuil excavated at the Gargas Cave (Aventignan, Hautes-P...
The ram, the bird of prey and their relationships with the major Deity. The recent discovery of two ...
The Merovingian ornament of Francheville (Marne) was found by chance by a farmer, who immediately no...
ABSTRACT The figures of Pierre Escrite are painted on two calcite flows in the middle of a rock flak...
International audienceIn the course of making a digital record of a bow engraved on the lower face o...
The Palaeolithic cave of Bara-Bahau (Le Bugue, Dordogne), discovered in 1951 by N. and M. Casteret, ...
The present contribution is above all a reasoned inventory of testimonies of megalithic art in Aquit...
Substantial deposits of bovine horn-cores have been found at Levroux, as they have at numerous roman...
International audienceThe statue-menhir of Puech de la Cabane was lying in a cellar paired in a habi...
Amongst the large menhirs erected as open-air sanctuaries in the 5th millennium BC on the present-da...
International audienceThe cave of La Mairie in Teyjat (Dordogne) offers a parietal device constitute...
[EN] Gavrinis, on the estuary of the river Vannes (Brittany, France), is known for the extraordinary...
A reconsideration of the shrine and the Iron Age engravings from the Caisses oppidum (Mouriès, B.du-...
The Roc-aux-Sorciers site, on the townland of Angles-sur-l’Anglin, contains two localities with cave...
International audienceAbstract The purpose of this article is to present an inventory of certain fau...
International audienceE. Cartailhac and H. Breuil excavated at the Gargas Cave (Aventignan, Hautes-P...
The ram, the bird of prey and their relationships with the major Deity. The recent discovery of two ...
The Merovingian ornament of Francheville (Marne) was found by chance by a farmer, who immediately no...
ABSTRACT The figures of Pierre Escrite are painted on two calcite flows in the middle of a rock flak...
International audienceIn the course of making a digital record of a bow engraved on the lower face o...
The Palaeolithic cave of Bara-Bahau (Le Bugue, Dordogne), discovered in 1951 by N. and M. Casteret, ...
The present contribution is above all a reasoned inventory of testimonies of megalithic art in Aquit...
Substantial deposits of bovine horn-cores have been found at Levroux, as they have at numerous roman...
International audienceThe statue-menhir of Puech de la Cabane was lying in a cellar paired in a habi...