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Stones Forum >> Interesting book on prehistory in Provence
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Andy B
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|  Posted 06-11-2012 at 18:48
I've chanced upon this book which has quite a lot of information on sites in Provence, which is an area we are a bit lacking in detail on:
Luminous Debris Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc by Gustaf Sobin
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s;brand=ucpress
I've highlighted some featured sites here
Moon Goddess: Speculations on a Pictograph
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6335720#48398
also
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6335610#48392
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6335678#48399
and there are more I've not been able to locate, eg
Cardial inhumation: note the traces of a funerary belt made of seashells about the subject's waist.
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e393&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e103&brand=ucpress
One can still feel the marks left by the beating of stone mallets, four thousand years earlier, even if one can't entirely see them. Less than a millimeter deep, these dull indentations score the rock face of ledges over an area of several square kilometers in the Monts de Vaucluse. Just detectable at the very tips of one's grazing fingers, they bear witness to the Neolithic industry of flint extraction. Here, nodules of that indispensable mineral were worked free from their limestone matrix. The tiny, barely perceptible blow marks thus created still circumscribe, in vague aureoles, a plethora of gutted cavities. In dull, studded circles, they leave, four millennia later, their ghostly traces.
The site itself was a single, vast, outdoor atelier. It covered an area eight kilometers long and approximately two to three hundred meters wide, following, essentially, the dried-out riverbed of the Vallon des Vergiers in the commune of Murs.
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e850&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e103&brand=ucpress
Late Neolithic funerary stele from Lauris-Puyvert.
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e922&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e103&brand=ucpress
and that's just the Neolithic chapters
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