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===Glozel affair and controversy=== [[File:Glozel-musée-2008.jpg|thumb|Glozel Museum in 2008]] [[File:Vitrines-Glozel-2.jpg|thumb|Glozel Museum]] French archaeological academia was dismissive of Morlet's 1925 report, published by an amateur and a peasant boy. Morlet invited a number of archaeologists to visit the site during 1926, including [[Salomon Reinach]], curator of the National Museum of [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]], who spent three days excavating. Reinach confirmed the authenticity of the site in a communication to the [[Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]]. Similarly, famous archaeologist [[Abbé Breuil]] excavated with Morlet and was impressed with the site, but on 2 October, Breuil wrote that "everything is false except the stoneware pottery". At the meeting of the International Institute of Anthropology in Amsterdam, held in September 1927, Glozel was the subject of heated controversy. A commission was appointed for further investigation, arriving at Glozel on 5 November 1927. During their three-day excavation campaign, the archaeologists were observed by spectators, who were by now flocking to the site, finding various artifacts, but in their report of December 1927, the commission declared everything at Glozel with the exception of a few pieces of flint axes and stone were fake. [[René Dussaud]], curator at the [[Louvre]] and famous epigrapher, also accused Émile Fradin of forgery. On 8 January 1928, Fradin filed suit for defamation against Dussaud.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museedeglozel.com/1928.htm|title=Glozel, l'année 1928|publisher=Musée de Glozel |accessdate=17 January 2009|language=fr}}</ref> [[Felix Regnault]], the president of the French Prehistoric Society, visited Glozel on 24 February 1928. After briefly visiting the site's small museum, he filed a complaint of fraud. On 25 February, the police, under the direction of Regnault, searched the museum, destroyed glass display cases and confiscated three cases of artifacts. On 28 February the suit against Dussaud was postponed due to Regnault's pending indictment against Fradin. A new group of neutral archaeologists, called the Committee of Studies, was appointed by scholars who were uncomfortable with the ongoing controversy. They concluded that "that the whole of Glozel was a fake".<ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Garrod |first1 = D. |title=Recollections of Glozel |journal=Antiquity |date=1968 |volume=42 |issue=167 |pages=172–177 |doi=10.1017/S0003598X00034268 | url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/86E7E962C0B5DBD3593C07B815253A6B/S0003598X00034268a.pdf/recollections_of_glozel.pdf|access-date= |language=en }}</ref> Excavating from 12 to 14 April 1928, they found more artifacts, and in their report asserted the authenticity of the site, which they identified as Neolithic. Gaston-Edmond Bayle, chief of the Criminal Records Office in Paris, analyzed the confiscated artifacts. Bayle's report identified the artifacts as recent forgeries, and on 4 June 1929, Émile Fradin was indicted for fraud on the basis of Bayle's report. The verdict against Fradin was reverted by an appeal court in April 1931. The defamation charge against Dussaud came to trial in March 1932, and Dussaud was found guilty of defamation.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.museedeglozel.com/Corpus/ProcFrad.pdf |title = Tribunal correctionnel de la Seine |language = French |publisher = Musée de Glozel |accessdate = July 16, 2015}}</ref>
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