My amateur researches four years ago have turned into a more serious attempt to provide a geo-located ‘Inventaire’ .  Various attempts have been made since Germain Sicard published the first, in 1909. Michel Barbaza published another in 1979. A further inventory was made in  1996 : La France des dolmens et des sepultures collectives (4500-2000 [...]

Four years ago I started this blog without any plan. I had just read a book, Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc, …  in which the expatriate American Gustaf Sobin sifts the remnants of the past for the “mirroring images they might provide” to the present. . . . Interpreting vestige with [...]

Only in this département – Aude – could this happen.  A dolmen, known to the speleologists of the region, and known to the botanists of the region – known presumably to every ‘chasseur de sanglier’ and his dog – has somehow, for over a century, remained unknown to any archaeologist of the region. [Correction: the [...]