What traces have the Gauls left?
What remains of the Gauls?
The Gauls are everywhere under our feet, in town and country.
But only a knowing eye, expert hands, and experienced ears can decipher their traces. In addition to these skills, all sorts of tools and techniques are used, from the simplest to the most sophisticated. Then, unimaginable remains spring from a dig or from a flight over a landscape by an archaeologist.
Linguists uncover Gallic words hiding under French syllables.The recent increase in the number of rescue or preventive digs is continually adding details to the picture we have of Gaul. We now know it was densely populated. Its country areas were widely occupied and used. Its towns prospered, and its roads made intensive trade possible... It is hardly surprising that Julius Cesar took a liking to it!
How do we know? The work of the archaeologists
