Neolithic settlement and panels at Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes

It all began in the early 1970s, when the Comité du Tourisme and the Conseil Général de l'Aisne took an interest in archaeology. The latter was one of the first in France to recruit a professional archaeologist, Michel Boureux.
At the same time, the University of Paris I welcomed a Czech archaeologist, Bohumil Soudsky, who was soon looking for a place to train his students in excavation techniques in situ, close to the capital.

This commune was chosen because of the nature of its site, which was home to the Aisne's oldest farmers five millennia before our era.

The first Neolithic house was built in the summer of 1977, and a series of archaeological digs were carried out at various sites around the village.

The smaller reconstruction and the panels you can also see are recent descendants of this period...