🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen de Mané Lud
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Morbihan Neolithic
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (10 m) with trapezoidal chamber (5 m) and reused grand-menhir capstone bearing axe carving.
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🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Morbihan Neolithic
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (10 m) with trapezoidal chamber (5 m) and reused grand-menhir capstone bearing axe carving.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Dolmen de Lamalou Grandmont II in Occitanie, Herault, France is a Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.5000–4000 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Brittany)
Europe's tallest upright menhir (9.5 m, 150 t) — Brittany granite giant with twin basal bosses, lightning-shorn.
🇫🇷 France · Rock-cut
Chalcolithic (3000-2300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Hypogee des Crottes de Rouaix II in Provence, Vaucluse, France is a Chalcolithic (3000-2300 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Chalcolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Tumulus culture)
Tumulus-capped passage grave (6.5 m passage) on Kercado ridge with hafted axe carving — Carnac tumulus evolution exemplar.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Largest Carnac alignment — 982 menhirs in 10 rows (1,120 m) between Ménec and Kerlescan with Kermario dolmen inside.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Eastern Carnac alignment: 555 stones in 13 rows (880 m) ending in semicircular cromlech and 6.5 m Manio giant.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Atlantic Neolithic (Morbihan)
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (8 m passage) near Table des Marchands — chamber with engraved axe and crook art.
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Castel Merle (also known as Castel-Merle or Castelmerle) is a complex of ten prehistoric rock shelters (French: abris) in Sergeac, in the Dordogne department of France.
🇫🇷 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 · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Carnac–Morbihan Neolithic
Crucuno (Middle Neolithic c.4000–3500 BCE) near Crucuno hamlet between Plouharnel and Erdeven is a rare double monument: a 7.5-m classic dolmen passage grave with 40-t capstone 5 m high plus an…
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Chauvet–Pont d'Arc — Detached Panel Bear Gallery in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Ardèche, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Carnac — Le Ménec-Kerlescan Kerb Row Link Loop in Brittany, Morbihan, Carnac, France is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic att…
🇫🇷 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 · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic inland megalithic
Inland Brittany's 400-stone alignment — 500 m rows of quartzite menhirs (to 4.5 m) buried under forest, restored 1990s.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic
Gavrinis Passage Tomb Morbihan at Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic megalithic of the Morbihan Neolithic tradition, built c. 3500 BCE for fully engraved passage grave.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Lesconil Megalithic Necropolis in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4700–4000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic)
Three interlinked monuments on the Gulf of Morbihan: the shattered 20.6-m Grand Menhir Brisé – heaviest moved stone in Europe at 280 tonnes before earthquake toppling; the Table des Marchand passage…
🇫🇷 France · Fortress
The Roman city of Argentomagus was located in the Mersans plateau of central France, at the strategic point on the north bank of the river Creuse, where a Roman bridge once traversed.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Magdalenian ~17–14 ka BP · Magdalenian
Vézère polychrome gallery with 230 Magdalenian figures, last original painted cave open to public.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Corsican Megalithic → Torréen (Bronze Age)
Corsican valley site with Torréen statue-menhirs bearing sculpted swords and faces protected by cyclopean towers, 3500-1200 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Poitou-Charentes Atlantic
Necropolis of four tumuli (B and C registered MH 1992) at Benon, Poitou-Charentes, trapezoidal passage graves, c.4000 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Passage grave near Locmariaquer, Morbihan, part of Locmariaquer-Carnac megalithic concentration, c.4000 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Moor Bal Petroglyph Field in Occitanie, France is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) rock art attributed to Yayoi culture.