Collection(s) : Heritage monograph
Paru le 18/01/2011 | Broché 32 pages
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photographs Yvon Boëlle
The alignments of Carnac, the Grand-Menhir and the Table-des-Marchands at Locmariaquer and the sumptuously decorated Gavrinis dolmen are world renowned masterpieces left to us by megalithic builders who worked in the Morbihan area more than six millennia ago.
Although much remains still to be discovered, a century and a half of patient research has enabled a number of scientifically proven theories to be expressed on the meaning of these majestic achievements, which still today compel admiration and respect.
First of all, why was this small region on the European Atlantic coastline the focal point for the first agricultural and pastoral civilisations of the West during nearly two millennia ?
Charles-Tanguy Le Roux, Former General Heritage Curator for the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Brittany and also Deputy Director of the Joint Research Unit « Atlantic civilisations and Archaeological sciences », associating the CNRS, Rennes 1 University and the French Ministry of Culture and Communications.
The author has directed numerous excavations of megalithic monuments in Brittany, in particular in Gavrinis and Locmariaquer.
Yvon Boëlle, Photographer, constantly tours celtic lands seeking fresh images. He is the author of a number of other books from Editions Ouest-France.
