Prehistoric France is the period in the human occupation of the geographical area covered by present-day France which extended through prehistory and ended in the Iron Age with the Roman conquest, whe
Venus of Laussel, Gravettian culture, c. 23,000 BC
Chauvet cave painting, Aurignacian culture
Venus of Brassempouy, Gravettian culture
Inscribed bones, Gravettian culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age, succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under co
Agris Helmet, France, c. 350 BC
1910 illustration of a Gallic chief
Model of the Roman siege of Avaricum, France, during the Gallic War (52 BC)
Bronze chariot fitting from Roissy, France, 3rd century BC