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Mégalithes
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Mégalithes
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    • Discover the megaliths of Morbihan
      • The Neolithic period
      • Introduction
      • The sea level and the shoreline
      • Alluvia and dreikanters
      • Fauna and flora
      • Population changes
      • A new way of life
      • Monumentalism
        • Milestones
        • What are megalithic monuments?
        • The "convergence" phenomenon
        • European megalithic culture
        • Did you know ?
        • The disposition of corpses
        • Bodyless graves
        • Fake megaliths and "Tricks of nature"
        • Civilisations and megaliths
        • Introduction
        • Learning to look at megaliths
          • Attempting to understand megaliths
          • Cairns and mounds
          • Menhirs
        • An interpretative model
        • The art of the builders
        • Materials
        • Operations
      • Art reflects the sacred
      • Introduction
      • Everyday objects
      • Prestige objects
      • Megalithic statuary
        • Rock art
        • Milestones
        • The shield
        • The axe
        • The crosier
        • Zigzag lines and snake-like figures
        • The horn shape 
        • Main works
        • The dolmen shield of Ile-Longue [Long Island]
        • The small stele at Mané-er-Hroeg
        • The large stele at the Table-des-Marchands and at Gavrinis
        • The 'Grande Idole' at Pierres-Plates
        • Slab n°8 at Gavrinis
        • The Kermaillard menhir
      • Reality and fantasy
      • Artists
      • Bibliography
      • Traditional legends and modern myths
      • Heritage management
    • Megalithism in Morbihan
    • Introduction
      • Carnac
      • The Carnac Area
      • « Astonishing heaps of stones »
      • An army of stones
      • From Le Menec to Toul-Chignan
      • From Kermario to Le Manio
      • Kerlescan
      • Other menhirs
      • The Saint-Michel tumulus
      • Other mounds, from le Moustoir to Le Manio
        • Passage graves
        • The Kercado dolmen
        • The Mané-Kerioned group
        • Other dolmens
      • Before and after the megaliths
      • Gavrinis
      • An exceptional monument
      • History
      • External architecture
      • Internal architecture
        • Decoration
        • Prolific decoration 
        • A structured decoration 
        • Possible interpretations
        • Learning to read Gavrinis
        • Signes accessoires
        • Major symbols
      • Hidden earlier decoration
      • A possible interpretation
      • Locmariaquer
      • The peninsula and its monuments
      • A cradle of archeological research
      • Before the megaliths
      • Grand-Menhir (Great Menhir)
      • Er-Grah Tumulus
        • La Table-des-Marchands (Merchants’s table)
        • "Megalithic recycling"
        • The discovery of a cairn and its courses
      • From Mané-Lud to Mané-er-Hroeg
      • Pierres-plates (Flat Stones), a late tomb
      • Megalithic art in Locmariaquer
      • Locmariaquer, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
      • Le Petit-Mont
      • At the heart of the Rhuys Peninsula
      • From the War of the Gauls to the Atlantic Wall
      • Before the megaliths
        • Three interconnecting cairns
        • Cairn I
        • Cairn II
        • Cairn III
        • The cairn II dolmen
        • The artefacts 
        • The cairn III dolmens
        • Dolmen III a
        • Dolmen III b
        • Petit-Mont Art
        • External decoration
        • In grave II
        • Grave IIIa
      • From the Campaniforms to the Gallo-Roman era
      • Architectural types
        • Mausoleums
        • Milestones
        • Early tombs
        • Tumulary mounds
        • Dolmenic tombs
        • Other architectural types
      • Standing stones
      • Evolution and transformation
    • Guide
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Mégalithes

À travers la visite détaillée de quatre monuments majeurs (Carnac, Locmariaquer, Gavrinis et Petit-Mont d'Arzon), c'est l'art des bâtisseurs de l'époque néolithique, leur cadre de vie, leur civilisation qui sont évoqués ici.

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Megaliths in Morbihan

Discover the megaliths of Morbihan

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    The Neolithic period

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    Monumentalism

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    Art reflects the sacred

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    Reality and fantasy

Megalithism in Morbihan

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    Introduction

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    Carnac

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    Gavrinis

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    Locmariaquer

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    Le Petit-Mont

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    Architectural types

The Neolithic period

  • Introduction
  • The sea level and the shoreline
  • Alluvia and dreikanters
  • Fauna and flora
  • Population changes
  • A new way of life

Monumentalism

  • Milestones
  • Did you know ?
  • Civilisations and megaliths
  • The art of the builders

Art reflects the sacred

  • Introduction
  • Everyday objects
  • Prestige objects
  • Megalithic statuary
  • Rock art
  • Main works

Reality and fantasy

  • Artists
  • Bibliography
  • Traditional legends and modern myths
  • Heritage management

Megalithism in Morbihan

  • Carnac
  • Gavrinis
  • Locmariaquer
  • Le Petit-Mont
  • Typologie des architectures

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