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Statue menhir les Colombier

Statue-menhir du Colombier, Euzet-les-Bains

Gard. From the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nîmes

 

Chalcolithic, so from around 5,200 ybp. 41 x 38 x 16 cm.

 

Made by peoples recognized under the term Fontbouisse, so villages like Cambous and the region of the Gard and Herault in the scrib lands behind the the area where the Mediterranean turns towards the east.

 

A paper describing the find:

www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_1963_num_60_5_3914

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Uploaded on October 13, 2017
Taken on October 13, 2017