Prehistory
Palaeolithic inferior - Middle Palaeolithic
- Palaeolithic superior - Mesolithic age
- Neolithic age
Neolithic age
The Neolithic age in Brittany begins around 5 800 years before our age.
The periods of cold ended during the Mesolithic age and the forest
which one knows today sets up. The man will completely change his way
of life. From hunter and gatherer it goes, during the Neolithic age, to
become stockbreeder and farmer. The same ground surface will be able to
nourish 20 times more people creating a demographic explosion. Villages
will be established. Towards 4 500 to 4000 years before JC begins
construction from large monuments. The axe will become the emblem of
power. There are numerous representations, but also the number
impressing of polished axes discovered in the monuments or simply in
the fields testifies their importance, some will speak even about
"worship". Several axe’ workshops were discovered in Brittany. Most
impressive by the estimated quantity of manufactured axes, is the one
Sélédin, on the commune of Plussulien in the Côtes
d’Armor, where, for this only site, from 3,5 to 6 million parts could
have been created. The Neolithic age ends towards - 2 000 years before
JC.
