A chance encounter with a chamois on our way upto site

Our heavy equipment and tinned food going up by helicopter

Serre de l'Homme X prior to excavation

Serre de l'Homme X is a major structure amongst a series of (thus far) late third and second millennia BC structures situated along a lateral moraine (see plan above). This "enclosure" is situated at the very foot of the moraine on the edge of an occasionally saturated, flat pasture.

The excavation area after de-turfing

Jon Vidal in the external geoarchaeological trench

Early morning view from the shephard's cabin

Tea break on our favourite rock

Early stage of the main trench at Serre de l'Homme X

Emergency Tent Repairs

A fire setting withing the site

A sea of clouds meets the moutains

A section in its landscape...

Scary clouds

A light dusting of snow

Hervé Cortot (director adjoint) and Richard Bonet (scientific director) of the Parc National des Ecrins

Andrew and Vincent doing the dishes (note the fashionable, pink rubber gloves)