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From sign to sacred: the symbolic revolution as the cradle of writing?

The Lascaux caves, the steles of Göbekli Tepe and Carnac: a semiology of the sacred? The signs of the engravings and cave paintings function as the invariants of a foundational myth. The metonymy at work in the combination of these signs allows access to the dimension of the sacred.

A mythological culture of the engraved signs of megaliths in the Neolithic: the Atlantic grammar of a "path of the dead."

The study of the signs engraved on the megalithic monuments of the Atlantic façade, particularly in Morbihan, reveals the existence of a highly coherent symbolic system, reflecting a deep and shared mythological culture in the Neolithic. The recent interpretation, shifting the analysis from a purely agropastoral framework to a maritime and celestial context, allows for the deciphering of a complex narrative, a true "path of the dead" inscribed in stone.