Archaeology in French education: work in the département of the Drôme
Philippe Planel
The French have long been proud of their prehistoric sites. Lascaux and, more recently, Tautavel and la Grotte Chauvet are part the national cultural consciousness. This interest in prehistory begins at primary school; specifically mentioned programmes study, even though 1999 pruned ‘lightened’ (alleges). school children all know who ‘Lucy’ was.
Antiquity