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A statue menhir is a type of carved
Image:La Dame de Saint-Sernin.jpg, Statue-menhir ''la Dame de Saint-Sernin'', musée Fenaille de
Website about statue menhirs in southern France
Southern France Megaliths
A. Soutou, "La ceinture des statues-menhirs du Haut-Languedoc : essai de datation", in ''Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française'', 1959, Vol. 56 Issue 11-12, pp. 715-721
*Martínez, P. 2011, La estatua-menhir del Pla de les Pruneres (Mollet del Vallès) Complutum, 2011, Vol. 22 (1): 71–87. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madri
*Moya, A.; Martínez, P.; López, J.B. 2010
Èssers de pedra. Estàtues-menhirs i esteles antropomorfes a l'art megalític de Catalunya
Cypsela núm 18, pp 11–41. Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya, Girona. * Servelle, Ch. 2009 - « Étude pétroarchéologique et technologique de la statue-menhir du Baïssas, Le Bez, Tarn », ''Archéologie Tarnaise'', n° 14, 2009, p. 115-121, 4 fig. * Vaquer, J. et Maillé, M. 2011 - « Images de guerrier au Néolithique final - Chalcolithique dans le midi de la France : les poignards – figurations sur les statues-menhirs rouergates et objets réels », in ''L’armement du guerrier dans les sociétés anciennes : de l’objet à la tombe'', Actes de la table ronde internationale et interdisciplinaire, Sens, CEREP, 4 juin 2009. Dijon, éd. universitaires de Dijon, p. 103-120. {{Prehistoric technology Outdoor sculptures Death customs * Prehistoric art Types of monuments and memorials Stone Age Europe Stones
A statue menhir is a type of carved standing stone
A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright rock (geology), stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. T ...
created during the later Europe
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an Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...
.
The statues consist of a vertical slab or pillar with a stylised design of a human figure cut into it, sometimes with hints of clothing or weapons visible.
Locations
They are most commonly found in southern and westernFrance
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
, Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
, Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...
, Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...
, Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
and the Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...
. A group from the Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...
also is known in Liguria
Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...
and Lunigiana
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.
There are two in Guernsey
Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency.
It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...
, ''La Gran' Mère du Chimquière'' ('the Grandmother of the Cemetery'), a highly detailed example in the churchyard of Parish of Saint Martin, and another known simply as ''La Gran' Mère'' in the Parish of Castel. The latter is an earlier, less detailed example found buried underneath the porch of the parish church.
Rodez
Rodez ( or ; oc, Rodés, ) is a small city and commune in the South of France, about 150 km northeast of Toulouse. It is the prefecture of the department of Aveyron, region of Occitania (formerly Midi-Pyrénées). Rodez is the seat of the ...
Image:Murat Statue menhir paillemalbiau.JPG, Statue menhir of Paillemalbiau (Murat-sur-Vèbre
Murat-sur-Vèbre (; oc, Murat) is a commune in the Tarn department and Occitanie region of southern France.
Geography
The Dourdou de Camarès River has its source in the commune.
See also
*Communes of the Tarn department
The following i ...
)
Image:Statuamenhirlaconi.jpg, Statue menhir of Laconi
Laconi, Làconi in Sardinian language, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari and about east of Oristano.
Laconi borders the following municipalities: Aritzo, A ...
, Sardinia
See also
*Kurgan stele
Kurgan stelae ( Mongolian: ; Russian: ; Ukrainian: "stone babas"; ky, балбал ) or Balbals ( ''balbal'', most probably from a Turkic word ' meaning "ancestor" or "grandfather") are anthropomorphic stone stelae, images cut from stone, i ...
*Megalithic art
Megalithic art refers to art either painted or carved onto megaliths in prehistoric Europe.
Elizabeth Shee Twohig has coined the term Megalithic art in her study of The Megalithic Art of Western Europe. Her original definition of Megalithic a ...
References
External links
Website about statue menhirs in southern France
Southern France Megaliths
A. Soutou, "La ceinture des statues-menhirs du Haut-Languedoc : essai de datation", in ''Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française'', 1959, Vol. 56 Issue 11-12, pp. 715-721
Further reading
* Maillé, M. 2010 - ''Hommes et femmes de pierre, Statues-menhirs du Rouergue et du Haut Languedoc'', AEP, monographie, 538 pages, 2010. *Martínez, P.; Fortó, A. Rufo, V. 2010, La estatua-menhir de Ca l'Estrada (Canovelles, Barcelona), una representación con elementos del grupo figurativo de la Rouergue (Aveyron, Francia), Munibe suplemento 32 , data =2007 , pàgines = p. 498-505 , lloc =Beasain*Martínez, P. 2011, La estatua-menhir del Pla de les Pruneres (Mollet del Vallès) Complutum, 2011, Vol. 22 (1): 71–87. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madri
*Moya, A.; Martínez, P.; López, J.B. 2010
Èssers de pedra. Estàtues-menhirs i esteles antropomorfes a l'art megalític de Catalunya
Cypsela núm 18, pp 11–41. Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya, Girona. * Servelle, Ch. 2009 - « Étude pétroarchéologique et technologique de la statue-menhir du Baïssas, Le Bez, Tarn », ''Archéologie Tarnaise'', n° 14, 2009, p. 115-121, 4 fig. * Vaquer, J. et Maillé, M. 2011 - « Images de guerrier au Néolithique final - Chalcolithique dans le midi de la France : les poignards – figurations sur les statues-menhirs rouergates et objets réels », in ''L’armement du guerrier dans les sociétés anciennes : de l’objet à la tombe'', Actes de la table ronde internationale et interdisciplinaire, Sens, CEREP, 4 juin 2009. Dijon, éd. universitaires de Dijon, p. 103-120. {{Prehistoric technology Outdoor sculptures Death customs * Prehistoric art Types of monuments and memorials Stone Age Europe Stones