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<< Other Photo Pages >> Dolmen du Villard - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Provence:Alpes-de Haute-Provence 04

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen du Villard
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 3.427 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Provence:Alpes-de Haute-Provence 04 Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Digne-Les-Bains  Nearest Village: Le Lauzet-Ubaye
Latitude: 44.476710N  Longitude: 6.369047E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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Dolmen du Villard submitted by Flickr : Dolmen du Villard Site in Provence:Alpes-de Haute-Provence 04 France Le plus ancien monument de la vallée de l'Ubaye ! 2000 ans avant JC. Ce site est accessible uniquement à pied. www.rando-canyon.fr Image copyright: gil streichert (gil streichert), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Dolmen in Alpes de Hautes-Provence



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Re: Dolmen du Villard by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 November 2012
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Photo of this dolmen here
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e721&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e103&brand=ucpress

In Provence these collective sepultures appeared relatively late. As the expression of a rising social hierarchization within Neolithic communities (the dead, presumably, were buried according to caste or clan affiliation), this megalithic movement, originating along the Atlantic coastline, would take two full millennia to reach Provence.

There, it would last well over fifteen hundred years, beginning in the late Neolithic (in about 3500 B.C. , vanishing only at the very outset of the Bronze Age. It might be mentioned in passing that we have here a rare instance of prehistoric acculturation traveling in an easterly direction. Invariably, the great routes of cultural penetration would do quite the opposite.

As we know, the "Neolithic Revolution," with all its innovating techniques, had infiltrated Europe from east to west, moving either by sea, across the Mediterranean, or by land, following the confluents of the Danube. Curiously enough, it's only in reaching its natural geographic limits along the Atlantic coastline that the first chamber tombs would as if erupt out of the rocky soil of Brittany.

More at
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e721&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e103&brand=ucpress
Which is an online copy of
Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc, by Gustaf Sobin. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999 1999. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5j49p06s/
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