MEGALITHIC SITES
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Megalithic sites located in Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne, where farmers and breeders lived after the Neolithic.
After the Neolithic period, farmers and herders living in small communities replaced cavemen. Their social life was organized around rites, some of which were funerals. Individual or collective burials took place in tombs that still exist under the name of dolmens. Jean-Baptiste Bourguignat discovered eight of them in 1866: the Puades, Mauvans, Collebasse, Serre, Dinguille, Prignon, Graou and Bernards. They are all of the underground type, consisting of a bedroom and an access corridor that always faces west. A covering slab, now missing, covered the room and a pile of stones, the traces of which can still be seen around the dolmen, formed the tumulus. Polished or carved stones, worked animal bones, pottery debris, bronze jewellery, iron arrowheads: the various objects found have allowed a precise dating. Until now, these sites have never been marked out, but the tourist office provides access maps for some of them.
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