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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave - History of its discovery, and pictures of the finds, and the scientific research
• 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.
• 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.
• French Project - A multidisciplinary study of landscape evolution in Burgundy, France by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• Glozel - Illustrated description of a grave dated 700-100 CE, containing clay tablets with signs on them suggestive of an alphabet.
• Harvesting Cereals with Bronze Sickles in Bronze Age Southern France - 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.
• Prehistoric cave of Foissac - Foissac prehistoric cave : two different worlds are waiting for you !
• Saint-Denis: A Town of the Middle Ages - Maps and 3D images, objects, a slide show, games, animations and educational materials reveal the city's portrait and its shape as it changed over time. Includes details of the town's archaeological unit and its work.

• 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. (February 26, 2004)
• Dietler Discovers Statue in France that Reflects an Etruscan Influence - 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. (February 19, 2004)
• 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. (December 11, 1997)

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