In the context of territorial analyses in archaeology, the visual attributes of sites play a key role in the definition of location strategies. This paper studies the Neolithic evidence from the south-western Morbihan area in Brittany (France) from a visual point of view, integrating the previous Mesolithic and the later Bronze Age occupation of the region in order to understand the diachronic evolution of the visual settlement patterns. The role played by the sea seems to be significant throughout the entire occupation of the area, but differences in both intervisibility of sites and the extension of visual areas allow us to make particular observations regarding different cultural uses of the landscape through time.
theoretical and archaeological contextsThe Morbihan area (southern Brittany, France) is well known for the number and magnitude of its Neolithic monuments and the wealth of research that has been carried out on them. The region delimited by the Blavet and the Laïta rivers ( Fig.