Le Grand-Pressigny

A major Chalcolithic flint mining and production centre in the Indre-et-Loire department of central France, active around 3000 BC during the Final Neolithic [1] [2] [3]. The site produced distinctive caramel-coloured flint of exceptional quality, from which master carvers struck large blades up to 40 cm long that were distributed across Europe to the Alps, Brittany, and Holland [1] [3] [4] [5]. The characteristic products known as livres de beurre are elongated cores from which long flakes were struck [5] [6]. The site is now home to a prehistory museum [2] [5].