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The Cave of Lascaux

http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/

The French Ministry of Culture provides a virtual tour of this famous Paleolithic cave with text links on its history and artwork.

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Saint-Denis: A Town of the Middle Ages

http://www.saint-denis.culture.fr/

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.

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Roman Paris was not in Paris, but Nanterre

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=5092

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.

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Prehistoric Cave of Foissac

http://www.grotte-de-foissac.com/acceuilenglish.htm

Provides photographs and information on the cave, its mineralogy and archeology.

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Lascaux Cave Paintings and Location

http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterOne/LascauxCave.htm

Photographs and information on what may be the most beautiful Paleolithic painted cave in the world.

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Glozel

http://www.gerbeaud.com/glozel/gbintroduction.htm

Illustrated description of a grave dated 700-100 CE, containing clay tablets with signs on them suggestive of an alphabet.

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French Project

http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/french/

A multidisciplinary study of landscape evolution in Burgundy, France by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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France Cave Paintings & Rock Art Archive

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/france/

Provides photographs and information on the cave paintings of southern France.

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Excavations at Colletire

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/charavines/en/index.htm

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.

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European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck/Reinheim

http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak5/physgeo/Reinheim/GAe2.html

A working group is reconstructing the development of the landscape after the ice-ages with the aid of archeological finds and soil and sediment analyses. The Park includes the Roman villa of Reinheim and the Roman city of Bliesbruck.

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Dietler Discovers Statue in France that Reflects an Etruscan Influence

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040219/statue.shtml

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.

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Cosquer Cave

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/archeosm/en/fr-cosqu1.htm

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.

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Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/

History of its discovery, and pictures of the finds, and the scientific research

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Celtic Improvisations

http://www.writer2001.com/improvisations.htm

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.

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Cave Reveals Spectacular Secrets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1423021.stm

From the BBC, French archaeologists find a cave in the Dordogne covered with drawings which they think are almost 30,000 years old.

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Britain and France in Dispute Over Cave Art

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1444305/Britain-and-France-in-dispute-over-cave-art.html

From the Telegraph, British claim the French may have exaggerated their age by 18,000 years under official pressure to promote them as the oldest cave paintings in the world.

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Archaeologists Trace early Britons in Brittany

http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/111297/news/story_6.htm

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.

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Archaeological Guides of France: Great Archeological Sites

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/anglais.htm

Monographs published by the French Ministry of Culture on prehistoric or ancient sites or towns, or describing the ruins of a region. Abstracts online.

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