Guided tour of Prehistory in the Indre

Name: Visite guidée sur la Préhistoire dans l'Indre
Start: 2023-09-16T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:10:00+02:00
Location: Musée archéologique d’Argentomagus

A guide will take you on a journey of more than a million years and will make you discover how the Creuse valley was formed from the beginning of the Quaternary and where the first men settled…

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Musée Argentomagus

A guide will take you on a journey of more than a million years and will show you how the Creuse valley was formed from the beginning of the Quaternary and where the first men settled, leaving behind them many debris and tools. Visitors will thus discover the Prehistory in the Indre during the Palaeolithic with the reconstruction of the hut of Lavaud (near Eguzon), the numerous lithic and bone tools...

À propos du lieu

Musée archéologique d’Argentomagus

Les Mersans, 36200 Saint-Marcel

Indre
Centre-Val de Loire

Archaeological museum built on Gallo-Roman monumental remains. The Gallo-Roman agglomeration developed from the ancient Gaulish oppidum of the Mersans plateau, which became since the first century AD a political, economic and religious centre (forum, basilica, commercial buildings, fountain, thermal baths, theatre...). Roman Garden. The Argentomagus Museum conveys the image of an archaeology within everyone’s reach. The spaces are punctuated by numerous reconstructions from prehistory to the Gallo-Roman era. Each year, archaeological excavations reveal new knowledge of the hidden city: streets, neighbourhoods, forums, basilica, theatre...