La Cit\u00e9 de la Pr\u00e9histoire \u2013 Grand Site de France de Aven d\u2019Orgnac presents the exhibition \u201cPlus belle la mort\u201d, exploring prehistoric funerary practices. Awarded the \u201cExhibition of National Interest\u201d label by the French Ministry of Culture, it invites visitors to investigate how prehistoric communities in south-eastern France treated their dead.<\/p>\n
Drawing on major archaeological discoveries \u2014 some of them never before shown to the public \u2014 the exhibition highlights the diversity of prehistoric mortuary practices: individual burials, collective megalithic tombs, funeral pyres, evidence of cannibalism, and post-mortem manipulations. These practices reveal complex relationships between the living and the dead, most likely embedded in collective ritual traditions.<\/p>\n
Combining archaeology with social and cultural anthropology, the exhibition also explores universal themes such as beliefs about the afterlife, the role of funerary rites and offerings, and the ways societies express emotions in the face of death.<\/p>\n
Designed for a wide audience, the exhibition features an interactive visitor experience with hands-on activities: handling object replicas, building a miniature dolmen, composing a funerary urn, and exploring the investigative methods used by archaeologists. Guided tours, workshops, and talks further enrich the programme.<\/p>\n
The exhibition will also be accessible to international visitors thanks to an English audioguide available through a mobile phone application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Exhibition “Belles b\u00eates” – information
\nHow did prehistoric humans say goodbye to their loved ones? What gestures, rituals, and symbols did they invent for this purpose? The exhibition offers a journey into the heart of their funeral rites by displaying previously unseen collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":113340,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/apidae\/113339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/apidae"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/apidae"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}