Documentary Resources

Discover the documentary resources linked to the Solutré site.

 

  • 1866-1869 – First excavations at Solutré 

FERRY de H. and ARCELIN A., The age of the reindeer in the Mâconnais region: a report on the Clos du Charnier site in Solutré (Saône-et-Loire). Annals of the Academy of Mâcon , 1st series , vol. VIII, 1868. pp. 432-471

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97706594

ARCELIN A. The incident of the ring, Bulletin of the Society of Anthropology of Paris, 2nd series , vol. VIII, 1873, p. 793-805, followed by a discussion, pp. 805-818.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/bmsap_0301-8644_1873_num_8_1_3562

 

  • On the Solutréan in Solutré

MORTILLET de G., Essay on a classification of caves and shelter sites, based on the products of human industry, Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des sciences de Paris , t. 68, no 9, 1st semester 1869. pp. 553-555

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3025p/f553

 

MORTILLET de G. Classification of the Stone Ages, Materials for the Primitive and Natural History of Man , vol. 7, eighth year, 2nd series, t. 3, 1872, p. 464-465.

https://books.google.fr/books/about/Classification_des_diverses_p%C3%A9riodes_de.html?id=CgRaAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y

 

COMBIER J., Le Solutrean at Solutré: former and recent research / The Solutrean at Solutré: Former and Recent Researchs . In: The Solutrean 40 years after Smith'66. Supplement to the Archaeological Review of Central France , 47Tours: Federation for the edition of the Archaeological Review of Central France, 2013. pp. 409-418.

www.persee.fr/doc/sracf_1159-7151_2013_act_47_1_1654

 

 

  • First synthesis on the Prehistory of a region

FERRY de H., Le Mâconnais préhistorique, Mémoire sur les âges primitifs de la pierre, du bronze et du fer en Mâconnais et dans quelques contrées limitrophes , Durand, Mâcon, C. Reinwald, Paris, 1870.

https://books.google.fr/books/about/Le_M%C3%A2connais_pr%C3%A9historique_M%C3%A9moire_su.html?id=ymthGNoa308C&redir_esc=y

 

DUCROST A., LORTET LCE, Studies on the prehistoric site of Solutré. In: Archives of the Museum of Natural History of Lyon , volume 1, 1872. pp. 7-35.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/mhnly_0374-5465_1872_num_1_1_933

 

  • 1872 – Solutré, first prehistoric novel by Adrienn Arcelin, under pseudonym

CRANILE, A., Solutré or The reindeer hunters of central France , Hachette, Paris, 1872

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3106614#

See also the commented reissue published in 2022 by Tautem editions.

 

 

  • Summary of research carried out in the years 1970 to 1998 by Jean Combier (CNRS) completed by Jack Hofman and Anta Montet-White (University of Kansas).

COMBIER J. and MONTET-WHITE A. (Eds.), Solutré 1968-1998, Mémoire de la Société préhistorique française XXX, 2002.

https://www.prehistoire.org/shop_515-29442-0-0/m30pdf-2002-solutre-1968-1998-j.-combier-et-a.-montet-white-dir.html

 

  • Preventive excavations at Crot du Charnier, as part of the development of the Solutré Archaeological and Botanical Park

CONNET N., BAYLE G., BEMILLI C., KERVAZO B., KONIK S., JULIEN M., VANHAEREN M., BOITARD E., MOLEZ D., Subsistence strategies of the Aurignacians of Solutré (Saône-et-Loire). The contributions of the preventive excavation of 2004. In: Gallia préhistoire , volume 54, 2012. pp. 33-65.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/galip_0016-4127_2012_num_54_1_2493

 

 

  • Discovery in 2015 of an important deposit from the Middle Magdalenian (around 16500-15 before the present) in the village of Solutré, currently being studied…

LAJOUX J.-B., MALGARINI R., BÉMILLI C., BAYLE G. Return to Solutré. Route de la Roche: preventive excavation of a Magdalenian open-air site. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française , vol. 113, no. 4, 2016. pp. 824-828.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_2016_num_113_4_14695