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Origin and history

The dolmen de la Pierre Luteau, located in Ruan in the Centre-Val de Loire region, is a megalithic vestige whose construction period is not specified in the available sources. This type of monument, characteristic of the Neolithic, generally served as a collective burial or a place of worship for local prehistoric communities. The dolmens, widespread in several parts of France, reflect the funeral practices and beliefs of the agropastoral societies of the time.

In Ruan, as elsewhere, these stone structures marked the landscape and played a strong symbolic role, often linked to the memory of ancestors and the territorial organization of human groups.