The Neolithic past of the Landes de Lanvaux emerges from beyond the grave.
In this picturesque corner of Morbihan located in the hinterland of Vannes, a team of researchers has been working to uncover, since 2017, two cairns over six millennia old.
Collapsed, these two stone burials of the necropolis of Coëby constituted, around 4400-4200 BC.
AD, the last home of some local chiefs.
No remains, however, remained to oppose, in silence, the arrival of new occupants of these monumental tombs, in the Bronze Age, nearly two thousand years later.
Would the first deceased from these tombs have vanished?
Have they been moved?
Nothing of the sort.
They would have been eaten by the acidic soil of Morbihan.
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The corrosive quality of soils on granite, which form the archaeological material of Brittany, is well known to specialists, accustomed not to find the slightest vertebra in the caustic bowels of the region.
"It's going very quickly
," explains
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