Glozel has been called "the most controversial site of the
20th century." Artifacts discovered in 1924 on this isolated hillside
in the center of France divided the archaeological world. Dr. Antonin
Morlet, the amateur archaeologist who excavated and published the site,
believed that the enigmatic face urns, the ceramic tablets engraved with
unknown symbols, and the large pebbles engraved with pictures of reindeer
dated to the Neolithic period. Others believed that the artifacts were
fakes.
TO LEARN THE VERY LATEST INFORMATION ON GLOZEL, PLAN TO ATTEND THE 2008 GLOZEL CONFERENCE, HELD IN VICHY ON OCTOBER 11th OF THIS YEAR
This will be the eleventh yearly conference on Glozel held at Vichy. An attempt will be made to produce a summary of the important research CIER has done, authenticating Glozel, since the first conference in 1996.
Contact CIER at:
8, rue de Four Banal
03800 Gannat, France
e-mail maison-des-arts@orange.france
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Beginning in 1996, a series of yearly conferences have been held in
Vichy, France, to re-evaluate the site. International researchers have
worked together to perform new scientific analyses and to investigate
Glozel from different perspectives. Their findings provide fascinating
and unexpected new information on the Glozel culture.
Two books on the site have been published in the last three years. La
préhistoire chahutée, Glozel 1924-1942, gives the
history of the site during those years. Its author, Joseph Grivel, has
worked with
the Glozel archives at the site for many years.
Glozel, Bones of Contention, published in 2005, is a survey of the history
of the site from 1924 until today, as well as a summary of the scientific
analyses and investigations made at Glozel. The author, Alice Gerard,
and her husband Sam Gerard, have worked for the last ten years with
other international researchers to provide new information that might
lead to a re-opening of excavations at the site.
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