Tholos de la Lauve
The Tholos de la Lauve is a round grave ( French Tombe ciculaire ) about 25.0 kilometers north of Draguignan in Salernes and the D560 (road) in the Var department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in France . The grave, which cannot be dated exactly, dates from the late Neolithic or the Copper Age .
The Tholos de la Lauve was built on the plateau more than 4000 years ago. The collective grave was excavated in 1950 by André Taxil, pharmacist and amateur archaeologist from Salernes and restored in 1993. The system has a diameter of around 6.0 m. In the middle is the 1.8 m diameter chamber where the bones of about 30 people were found. With them jewelry made of serpentine and shells as well as flint utensils were buried. The chamber was covered by a cantilever vault about 4.0 meters high . The access is in the west.
This type of grave is rare in Provence and otherwise only documented from the Alpes-Maritimes . There are perhaps two other Tholos tombs:
- Sarrée tumulus ( canton Le Bar-sur-Loup )
- Tumulus or Tholos of Colette in Escragnolles
Nearby is the Riens dolmen
See also
literature
- Jean Courtin: Le neolithique de la Provence (= Mémoires de la Société préhistorique française. Volume 11). Klincksieck, Paris 1974, p. 359 and Fig. 126.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Gérard Sauzade, Jean Courtin, Gaby Chabaud, Le dolmen de la Haute Suane (Grimaud-Sainte-Maxime, Var) et la tombe circulaire en blocs de l'Amourié (Grimaud) In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 85/5, 1988, p. 158 ( digitized version ).
Coordinates: 43 ° 34 ′ 38.6 " N , 6 ° 13 ′ 43.6" E