Documentary Resources

Discover the documentary resources linked to the Solutré site.

 

  • 1866-1869 – First excavations at Solutré 

FERRY by H. and ARCELIN A., The age of reindeer in Mâconnais: memory of the Clos du Charnier station in Solutré (Saône-et-Loire). Annals of the Academy of Mâcon, 1st series, t. 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, 2e series, t. 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 sheltered stations, based on the products of human industry, Reports from the Paris Academy of Sciences, t. 68, no 9,‎ 1er semestre 1869.  pp. 553-555

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

 

MORTILLET by G. Classification of stone ages, Materials for the primitive and natural history of Man, vol. 7, huitième année, 2e série, 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 Solutréen in Solutré: old and recent research / The Solutrean at Solutré: Former and Recent Researches. 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 Center of 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 of H., The prehistoric Mâconnais, Memoir on the primitive ages of stone, bronze and iron in Mâconnais and in some neighboring regions, 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 station of Solutré. In: Archives of the Natural History Museum 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. (Dir.), Solutré 1968-1998, Memory of the French Prehistoric Society 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: Prehistory Gaul, 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 prehistorique française, volume 113, n°4, 2016. pp. 824-828.

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