Champ Dolent Menhir – Dol de Bretagne
Menhir de Champ Dolent near Dol de Bretagne, an isolated megalith known as the largest in the region that gave birth to countless legends
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Carnac megaliths in Morbihan
Carnac, the largest megalithic site in the world is located in Morbihan in Southern Brittany, a region considered the core area of the megalithic culture
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Prehistoric Dordogne – Simple Facts List
A simplified list of facts about prehistoric Dordogne in Southwest France, a region that has been inhabited continuously since the Lower Paleolithic
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Laugerie Basse – Laugerie Haute – Dordogne
Laugerie Basse and Laugerie Haute prehistoric sites in the Vézère Valley are listed as Historical Monuments, Archeological Sites and World Heritage Sites
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Lascaux Cave – Sistine Chapel Prehistory
Lascaux Cave in the Vézère Valley, the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory, a major European prehistoric site listed Historical Monument and World Heritage Site
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La Micoque Neanderthal shelter – Dordogne
La Micoque in the Vézère Valley, a Neanderthal site inhabited between 400,000BP and 130,000BP and most ancient prehistoric deposit known to date in Périgord
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La Madeleine rock shelter – Vézère Valley
La Madeleine, a World Heritage Site and the only prehistoric site in the Vézère Valley to have been inhabited without interruption for 17,000 years
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Font de Gaume Cave Art – Vézère – Dordogne
Font de Gaume Cave in Dordogne, one of the most beautiful Paleolithic sanctuaries in the world still open to the public and listed as a World Heritage Site
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Les Eyzies de Tayac Sireuil – Dordogne
Les Eyzies de Tayac Sireuil in the Vézère Valley in the Dordogne, the French Capital of Prehistory after the discovery of the skeletons of Cro Magnon men
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Cro Magnon shelter – Eyzies-Tayac-Sireuil
Cro Magnon Shelter, a key archaeological discovery as the remains found are those of the first anatomically modern humans known in France
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Combarelles Cave – Vézère Valley – Dordogne
Combarelles Cave in the Vezere Valley, a major Sanctuary of the Magdalenian Culture which contains 600-800 engravings dating from about 14,000BP to 9,500BP
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Abri Cap Blanc – Shelter – Vézère Valley
Abri Cap Blanc, the only illustration of monumental prehistoric sculpture in the world still visible in situ and listed as a World Heritage Site
