In the Neolithic period, statues were carved with funny faces

No, menhirs are not the prerogative of Brittany.

The Lattara museum, in Lattes, near Montpellier (Hérault), unveils, with the exhibition "Statues-menhirs, stone mirrors of the Neolithic", incredible statues, carved in the rock, discovered in the four corners of Occitania .

A heritage of the region still too little known.

These menhirs like no other, found in the mountains of Rouergue or in the scrubland of Bas-Languedoc, have fascinated archaeologists for a long time.

And, there is no doubt, they will fascinate visitors, especially the youngest.

Because, on most of these sculptures from the end of the Neolithic period (between 3200 and 2500 BC), we recognize faces.

Some of which seem straight out of a cartoon.

Some of these rock-carved figures also have clothing or tattoos.

On these astonishing sculpted stones, “Neolithic men even succeeded in expressing emotions” is surprised Diane Dusseaux, the director of the archaeological museum of Lattes.

This exhibition, which brings together, for the first time, about twenty statue-menhirs, is to be discovered until March 6, at the Lattara museum.

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