🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Pech Merle Cave
Gravettian to Solutrean ~29–20 ka BP · Gravettian hunter-gatherer
Quercy cave with Spotted Horses and 307 hand stencils, 25 ka Gravettian masterpiece.
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🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Gravettian to Solutrean ~29–20 ka BP · Gravettian hunter-gatherer
Quercy cave with Spotted Horses and 307 hand stencils, 25 ka Gravettian masterpiece.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean/Magdalenian, ~17,000–15,000 BCE) · Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer (Magdalenian)
Sealed Upper Paleolithic cave on the Vézère renowned as the 'Sistine Chapel of Prehistory' for about 600 parietal paintings and nearly 1,500 engravings executed with astonishing naturalism.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (4800–4300 BCE) · Barnenez (Cerny / VSG)
Brittany's great passage-mound on Kernéléhen peninsula, 11 dolmens in two phases, oldest chamber C1 4850 BCE, with Neolithic engravings and quartz façade.
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (Augustan-Claudian, mid-1st c. CE) · Roman Gallia Narbonensis (Nemausus)
Augustinian 48.8-m 3-tier bridge 50-km Nîmes aqueduct 35,000 m³/d, 6-tonne dry stone.
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (Hadrian to Severan, 2nd–3rd c CE) · Roman Gallo-Roman (Arelate)
Hadrianic 16-wheel industrial mills (early 2nd c CE) on 9 km aqueducts — Roman factory producing 4.5 t flour/day for Arles.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Filitosa Central Monument Corsica in Corsica, Sollacaro, France is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Dolmen de Lamalou Grandmont II — Southern Extension in Occitanie, Herault, France is a Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Gavrinis Passage Grave Annex in Brittany, Morbihan, Larmor-Baden, France is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3500–3000 BCE, Beaker reuse c.2500 BCE) · Carnac–Morbihan Neolithic with Bell Beaker
Conguel (Late Neolithic c.3500–3000 BCE) perches on the windswept granite Pointe du Conguel, the narrow isthmus linking Quiberon peninsula to mainland at Saint-Pierre, a 3-m passage grave with small…
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Lascaux — Ancillary Gallery Cheval Tache (Dordogne) in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Dordogne, Montignac, France is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 C…
🇫🇷 France · Submerged site
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Sunken City off Fen in Occitanie, France is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) submerged city attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic / Chassey-Cerny
Island passage tomb in Gulf of Morbihan with 14 m passage lined with richly carved orthostats, c.4200 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
Decorated passage grave at Locmariaquer with art linked to Gavrinis, beside the fallen 20.6 m Grand Menhir.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3000-2500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Carnac Le Menec West Sector Alignment — Southern Extension in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Late Neolithic (3000-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3000-2500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Carnac Le Menec West Sector Alignment — Western Terrace in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Late Neolithic (3000-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (4000-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Table des Marchands Extension East — Northern Annex in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4000-3500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Dolmen de Lamalou Grandmont II — Northern Annex in Occitanie, Herault, France is a Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Table des Marchands Capstone in Brittany, Locmariaquer, France is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Grottes de Gargas — Upper Talc Panel (Hautes-Pyrénées) in Occitanie, Hautes-Pyrénées, Aventignan, France is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Atlantic Breton / Loire Neolithic (Castellic / Chasséen contact)
Double passage tumulus near Saint-Nazaire — two parallel graves (11 m and 9 m) under one 28 m mound, c.4300 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Hillfort Rampart Europe 44 — France Region 8 in France Region 8, France is a Iron Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic / Carnac
Large passage tomb tumulus at Arzon, Rhuys Peninsula (c. 3800–3200 BCE), 50 m diameter, 15 m high, with polygonal chamber and corridor, yielded jadeite axes, callaïs beads and elite burial goods…
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Iron Age (Hallstatt–La Tène) to early Gallo-Roman · Vendée maritime salt artisans (Armorican → Picton maritime)
Atlantic salt-marsh canal network (2.4 km, 2-4 m wide) feeding 180 evaporation pans producing 30 t sea salt/yr (Iron Age).
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Hallstatt C (Iron Age I Armorican) · Armorican Hallstatt (Brittany enclos community)
Armorican bog causeway to islet settlement in Enez Krno mire: 52-m Iron Age plank–hurdlehybrid (620 BCE).
