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Favrel, Quentin. "Études technologiques des assemblages céramiques du néolithique final du Nord-Ouest de la France : la place des cultures locales et l'impact du campaniforme sur la façade atlantique au troisième millénaire avant notre ère". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA01H070.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe appearance of the Bell Beaker in the middle of the third millennium BC marks a major turning point for the societies of north-western France, as in many other parts in Europe or the Maghreb. Thin and carefully decorated beakers constitute the best evidence on archaeological site, although others objects are often associated with them, especially in grave (paraphernalia made of various materials, copper daggers, arrowheads). The introduction of these objects and the techniques and practices related with them necessarily raises questions, especially as the phenomenon covered a vast territory in a period of less than two centuries while preserving a certain homogeneity. Numerous theories have been developed to account for this situation, including migrations, long-distance exchanges, the development of new belief systems, and prospectors looking for metal ore deposits. The origin of this phenomenon has long been questioned and is thought to originate in the Iberian Peninsula. The north-west of France is one of the best known areas in Europe regarding the Bell Beaker phenomenon, but has not been the subject of a dedicated synthesis for more than sixty years. It has become critical since the rise of development-led archaeology, which has largely revamped the available data. It is crucial to fill this gap and to focus on the ceramic production related to the Bell Beaker. This is the most widespread and best contextualised material, therefore the most likely to help us to make progress on the definition of the Bell Beaker phenomenon. We have compiled a database integrating sites, the discovery contexts of the material, radiocarbon dating and the ceramics in order to take stock of the Bell Beaker question in north-west France. The ceramics assemblage’s from reference sites were subjected to typo-technological analysis to determine the manufacturing chaînes opératoires of Bell Beaker vessels. All of this data was then combined with multiple statistical analyses (CA, PCA, MCA, seriation, etc.) to compare the different Bell Beaker productions in our study area across time and space. This research allows, on the basis of the ceramics, to establish a new chronological, spatial and stylistic framework for the Bell Beaker in northwestern France. It also allows us to discuss the significance of the Bell Beaker and its relationship with earlier, later and contemporary cultural complexes. It is crucial to fill this gap and to focus on the ceramic production related to the Bell Beaker
Martial, Emmanuelle. "L'évolution des systèmes techniques à la fin du Néolithique et au début de l'age du Bronze : une approche techno-culturelle de l'industrie lithique dans le nord de la France". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021PA01H056.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis thesis dissertation provides a summary of the place and evolution of lithic industries in northern France, between the 3rd millennium and the first half of the 2nd millennium BC. This work is based on research carried out for twenty-five years in the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Somme and is based on some thirty series bringing together more than 70,000 objects in siliceous materials from sites attributed to the Deûle-Escaut, the Bell Beaker and the Early Bronze Age. Beyond the techno-functional characterization of the stone industries from the Late Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age, this work addresses the place and the role - utilitarian as well as symbolic - occupied by this technical subsystem and its evolution, in a context marked by the development of metallurgy. Evolutionary trends are defined from the components specific to each lithic series and from the analysis of common features and discriminating traits. The dynamic reading of the methods of acquisition, manufacture and consumption of stone tools is made possible by approaching the operating processes (technical and functional) from a global point of view and by varying the scales. A change in the status of the lithic industry marks the transition to a new tradition from the onset of the Bronze Age. This cultural technology approach aims, beyond the study of the object per se, to reveal the society that produced it by attempting to establish relationships between technical phenomena and socio-cultural phenomena. The conditions for change, continuity and rupture are questioned; hypotheses and interpretations are proposed by seeking insights beyond the limits specific to material documentation
Brunet, Véronique. "Organisation des productions lithiques en silex au Néolithique en basse vallée de Marne de la fin du Vè millénaire au IIIè millénaire avant notre ère. : acquisition de la matière première, objectifs du débitage, comportements économiques par une approche territoriale Nord de la France". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA01H073.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis research work from the end of the 5th to the 3rd millennium constitutes an unpublished synthesis of the production of flint tools in the lower Marne basin. We are interested in the profound transformations brought about by the exploitation of flint in mining from the Middle Neolithic. The study is based on three transversal research themes: diachronic, topographic and territorial. The segment of the valley studied holds a particular place in the supply of the Bartonian to the Neolithic, it gives us the opportunity to study the functioning of the Marne and Morin mining complex, centred around a flint extraction site, undoubtedly the most important in the northern half of France, at Jablines in the Seine-et-Marne (Bostyn, Lanchon dir. 1992). The techno-economic approach to the lithic industry is based on 23 lithic series, and the furniture taken into account represents more than 230,000 pieces. Fundamental changes are visible in the organisation of production. The beginning of the period is marked by a territorial economy based on a mutually beneficial cooperation of the different members of the community and interact in each of the sites of the territory (extraction, cutting, polishing, consumption and exchanges). Individuals possessing the know-how for axe production appear to be integrated into the economy by collaborating in the production of domestic and socially valued products with a supra-local destination. The second period seems to be determined by an economy in which most of the activities are separate and interdependent in the territory. The best cutters with the knowledge of axe production are no longer in the community, they are disconnected from it, they interact with it at the moment of sharing the finished products. While the third period shows that it is less and less anchored in the exploitation of its own territorial resources, and more and more turned towards regional products. This is probably linked to a loss of value given to the local resource
Arbogast, Rose-Marie. "Premiers élevages néolithiques du nord-est de la France". Paris 1, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA010565.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis thesis concerns the archaeological study of several bone samples dated from the Neolithic of north east of France. The analysis of the morphometric data from different mammal species allows some conclusions to the questions of the origin of the first domestic animals. The modifications due to zootechnical practices, like castration, or to chronological evolution are also examinated. The study of the bone frequencies provides informations about the economic importance of hunting and breeding pratices. Stock rearing and gestion of the different animal resources are analyzed in order to caracterise the hunting and breeding technics and the main aims of production. Comparisons with the data from northern France and central Europe allowes us to precise the originality of the meat supply in agropastoral communities in this region
Bathily, Mohamadou. "Néolithique moyen à final, littoral et continental d'un secteur saharien : le Nord-Ouest mauritanien (régions du Tijirit et de l'Agneitir)". Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010537.
Pełny tekst źródłaWell studied in its coastal border where previous researches concluded that the neolithic discovered there was a specific littoral one, the continental regions of the north west of mauritania remained archaeologically unknown. New researches unertaken in a coastal part of this region (Aneitir) and in contigous continental regions (Tjirit) reveal a neolithic culture which is contemporaneous and presents a lot of common features with the archaeological sites of the mauritanian northern coast. The very high density of large settlement sites of sedentary or semi-sedentary groups in the tijirit reflects the importance of the neolithic populations of the region which climate remained favorable untill a recent period (after 3 000 years bp) and allowed a late prehistoric human occupation. The agneitir region in which settlement sites are almost absent was regularly frequented for short duration by small groups coming from continental regions to exploit sea ressources (mainly shellfishes). This activity is the origin of the numerous accumulations of shells during the nouakchottian marine transgression and, mainly, the Tfolian (starting from 4 200 years bp) but is was only an additional mean of subsistance. The extension area of a both littoral and continental neolithic culture is then going to be outlined in the north west of mauritania. Its origins (probably from the north) are not yet precise : evidence of notable human occupation anterior to middle holocene are very rare and tenuous in the region which study gave evidence of pre-ogolian dunes and allowed to conclude that the local deposits dating from middle pleistocene (the Tafaritian) are not of marine origin as previously assumed
Fromont, Nicolas. "Anneaux et cultures du néolithique ancien : production, circulation et utilisation entre massifs ardennais et armoricain". Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010626.
Pełny tekst źródłaJallot, Luc. "Milieux, sociétés et peuplement au Néolithique final en Languedoc méditerranéen". Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30070.
Pełny tekst źródłaStudies of populating of the Mediterranean Languedoc during the fourth and third millennia participate of a dynamic environment marked by the influence of agro-pastoralists on the natural environment. This action occurs in a relatively stable climate. The long history of research on prehistoric societies in southern France shows the various heritage from which benefit the current interdisciplinary work and also the large amount of data which are based on stratigraphic context knowledge. The housing environment, the territories, the cultural facts offer a frame for definition in ongoing changes about the population dynamics. This studies joint the radical change of the scales of observation it keeps pace with the development of the preventive archaeology, in he low plain of Languedoc, with an important change of the methodological practices. By taking into account the data on the housing environment, natural places and artefacts, this researches offert new perspectives about local and global change of last neolithic in Europe. Recordings of excavations to go to the sociohistoric models, we pass by the evolution of the environment, archaeologist try to bring an answer to the questioning touching the structure of the society and the conditions which cause the fall of the populating at the end of the third millennium in Languedoc. In contradiction with the academic thesis, the study of the end of the Neolithic show not linear developments, a variety géoculturelle, an a using of the violence and to the exchangein political purposes, and gradual effect on the natural environment
Colas, Caroline. "Savoir-faire technique et reconstitution des chaînes opératoires des potiers au néolithique moyen II dans la moitié nord de la France : étude techno-typologique". Paris 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA010568.
Pełny tekst źródłaRousseau, Lolita. "Des dernières sociétés néolithiques aux premières sociétés métallurgiques : productions lithiques du quart nord-ouest de la France (IIIe-IIe millénaires av. notre ère)". Nantes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015NANT3018.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis thesis focuses on the lithic productions of the transition from Prehistory to Protohistory. Lithic industry has most commonly been studied by prehistorians, however as Protohistory is not their specific period, these productions have been disregarded for long by researchers, due to their ambivalence. Consequently, it was thought that these productions had stopped at the dawn of the Metal age. Nowadays, if the use of stone during the Bronze Age tends to be admitted, many gaps were attested in the north-west quarter of France. That is why we choose this geographical area. This work is based on an analysis of raw materials, on typo-technological studies of around twenty lithic series, as well as bibliographic data from 571 archaeological entities collected within a database. Three main objectives were achieved. The first one being to understand the modalities of acquisition and management of the resources. The impact of geological and geomorphological environment on techno-economic choice of different human groups was also taken into account. The second objective permitted us to characterize manufacturing and consumption economies of the artifacts. It allowed us to identify some of the activities practiced on sites, thus enhancing our knowledge regarding the lifestyles of these populations. The last objective helped us to understand the progressive marginalization of lithic productions during the Metal age thus providing answers about this phenomenon
Laporte, Luc. "Parures et centres de production dans le Centre-Ouest de la France au néolithique final". Paris 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA010599.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe subject of this work is to study, through the exemple of neolithic ornaments, the development of certain forms of specialized activities. The first chapter tests the representativeness of the studied objects, also localising them in their nearest archaeological and geographical context : oleron island. The second chapter presents a study of a production place of shell beads and tries to approach through all its aspects (technical, spatial, economical and even social aspects) the degree of specialisation linked to this activity. The third chapter deals with the distribution of the production. This leads us to study the neolithic ornaments of west central france, and to give a brief overview of exchange networks and cultural groups involved, especially for the artenacien group. The conclusion is an attempt to understand the economic system which can be detected through production and exchange networks, and thus contributes to discussions related to the importance of social and economic changes in atlantic europe for the late neolithic period
Malamidou, Dimitra. "La céramique à décor peint "noir sur rouge" du néolithique récent II en Grèce du nord : production, distribution et utilisation". Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010510.
Pełny tekst źródłaGatto, Esther. "La place de la crémation dans le traitement des défunts à la fin du Néolithique en France : outils méthodologiques et études de sites". Bordeaux 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003BOR12765.
Pełny tekst źródłaFagnart, Jean-Pierre. "Le paléolithique supérieur récent et final du Nord de la France dans son cadre paléoclimatique". Lille 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LIL10181.
Pełny tekst źródłaHamon, Nathalie. "Les productions céramiques au néolithique ancien et moyen dans le nord-ouest de la France". Rennes 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003REN10139.
Pełny tekst źródłaBraguier, Séverine. "Economie alimentaire et gestion des troupeaux au Néolithique récent/final dans le centre-ouest de la France". Toulouse 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000TOU20049.
Pełny tekst źródłaArd, Vincent. "Traditions céramiques au Néolithique récent et final dans le Centre-Ouest de la France (3700-2200 avant J.-C.) : filiations et interactions entre groupes culturels". Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100139.
Pełny tekst źródłaTwo millennia after the arrival of the first Neolithic settlers, a “mosaic” of cultural groups appeared in Central-West France in the Late Neolithic period, c. 3700 BC. Except for the famous Peu-Richard culture of Saintonge, known for its ceramic decorations which are sometimes exuberant, all the groups of this cultural mosaic produce coarse and sparsely decorated ceramics, which are now difficult to distinguish just on morpho-stylistic criteria. However, these morphological criteria are commonly used for the definition of the Neolithic cultures. The origin and precise characterization of these Late Neolithic groups, and also their affiliation with the Artenac culture of the Final Neolithic period, are commonly discussed.To clarify this chrono-cultural context and understand the affiliations and interactions between groups of the Late and Final Neolithic (c. 3700-2200 BC), our study analyzes all the “chaine opératoire” of pottery manufacture from twenty-three ceramic assemblages from domestic (causewayed enclosures) and funeral sites which are distributed throughout the Central-West France, between Loire and Dordogne rivers. The aim of this work is to highlight the “ways of doing” transmitted in potters groups, as shown by multiple ethnoarchaeological studies. Eight ceramic traditions, characterized by the shaping methods, the clay material and finally the forms produced, are all successively presented and the most characteristic features of each ones are illustrated by macro-photos.Therefore, the chronological and spatial distributions of these ceramic traditions are discussed in order to test the validity of the current chrono-cultural context. Three cultural areas are identified in the second half of the Late Neolithic (Seuil du Poitou, Taizé and Peu-Richard) which offer the possibility to discuss their respective origins and the interactions between these areas. The emergence of a dominant culture (Peu-Richard) is observed and his power is perhaps related to the control of the salt exploitation in the poitevin and Rochefort marshes. The Peu-Richard ceramic productions, sometimes found at long-distance, are the ancestors of those of the Artenac culture whose area of influence extends beyond the Central-West borders in the Late Neolithic (c. 2900-2200 BC)
Kuo, Pei Chun. "L'industrie osseuse préhistorique dans le Nord-Ouest de la Chine : (du Néolithique final au début de l'Âge de bronze)". Poitiers, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006POIT5009.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis study is performed to investigate the question of bone industry in the North-West of China. Basically, it has been forgotten by researchers for a while. Likewise, the aim of the study is to make it clear for researchers in who are interested. The content of Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia, is emphatically implement principal periods of Neolithic later to Bronze Age early time transformation, which is equivalent to somewhere between 3100 BC and 1600 BC. Also, it attempts to highlight the choices of the raw material, the manufacture methods, the evolution, the distribution, and the diffusion of the objects Majiayao and Qijia Culture. Basically, the approach is to find the interactions among the human beings, tools and the cultures. Firstly, the aim is to deal with the techniques of manufacture and the morphology as for bone industry. Initially, we will present the archaeological contexts in the North-West of China, and then classify the parts according to their functions in three categories: production equipments (hunting, fishing, breeding and agriculture), tools for daily or domestic use, and ornaments. Afterward, we will try to analyze the characteristics of the objects as well as their contribution for the knowledge of the prehistoric economy. Finally, we will concentrate on regional specificities starting from some sets of themes, the arrowheads, the shovels, the objects composite, the "cover", the plates, and the arm-bands. We will have the results obtained from the archaeological points of view regarded as the starting point of a wider reflection
Gomart, Louise. "Traditions techniques et production céramique au néolithique ancien : étude de huit sites rubanés du nord est de la France et de Belgique". Paris 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA010646.
Pełny tekst źródłaBlin, Arnaud. "La gestion des sépultures collectives du bassin parisien à la fin du néolithique". Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100183.
Pełny tekst źródłaFor one century and an half, around four hundred and fifty collective burials had been discovered in the Paris basin. The archeological information is widely lacunar. The knowledge of the chronological and cultural groups of the end of the Neolithic had been enhanced thanks to the burial deposit. It permitted to define a common phase of building and use of a large majority of the collective burials during the recent Neolithic (3350-3000 av. J.-C). A minority of them had been used during the final Neolithic(2900-2550 av. J.-C.), or even till the beginning of the Bronze Age.In spite of a common chronological horizon, the collective burials of the Paris basin presents a suprising architectural diversity. Two main types of monuments had been identified : the sepulchral galleries and the hypogeums. They coexist with a group of burials formerly named “dolmen” or “burial grave”, two names that we could not use any more. Each archictectural type is characterised by his own building technique, geographical distribution, implantation logic, useful life and deposit concentration. Is this diversity reinforced by some differences on burial practices ? Are the different types of collective burials of the Paris basin distinguished between as well by their functioning ? Could they constitue original characteristic cultural ?
Maigrot, Yolaine. "Etude technologique et fonctionnelle de l'outillage en matières dures animales : la station 4 de Chalain (Néolithique final, Jura, France)". Paris 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA010540.
Pełny tekst źródłaRodot, Marie-Angélique. "Les matériaux céramiques au Néolithique final, dans le Centre et le Centre-Ouest de la France : natures, provenances et habitudes techniques". Dijon, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007DIJOL018.
Pełny tekst źródłaCeramic productions of four Neolithic settlements (2900 - 2500 av. J. C. ) located in Centre and Poitou-Charente regions (France) are analysed so as to identify raw materials and provenances according to their typology: Diconche (Saintes, Charente-Maritime), le Camp Allaric (Aslonnes, Vienne), les Vaux (Moulins-sur-Céphons, Indre) et La Bouchardière - Le Pain Perdu (Monts, Indre-et-Loire). The first three settlements are attributed to Artenac while the fourth is from an indefinite archaeological culture. Petrography analyses are used to identify sediment and temper groups in order to assess variability of raw material choices and paste preparation behaviours. The majority of sediments identified are potentially local, but non-local sediments, from crystalline massif, are present in the three Artenac productions. These results suggest relationships among communities living near these outcrops. The practices and typological assemblages variability permit to observe spatial distributions. Silicate sediments dominated in all samples, whereas temper nature allows to identify two spatial communities of practice areas. The production of Diconche is characterised by grog, whereas in other settlements ceramics are made without temper. Typological assemblage is the parameter that exhibits greatest variability: three settlement groups are distinguished. Only Diconche and Camp Allaric productions could be collected on the basis of ceramic typology. Although four settlements differences appear sometimes in connection with archaeological culture, other factors in relation with spatial distribution can be advanced. However they remain difficult to interpret
Baroni, Irène. "La séquence holocène de la grotte de l'Adaouste (B. -du-Rh. ) : relations entre le Néolithique de Provence et l'Italie du Nord". Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MNHN0041.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe analysis of neolithic industry, pottery and lithic artefacts, and some of the rituals aspects in the Adaouste cave, improves our knowledge of southern French neolithisation. The end of Early neolithic phase is characterised -in this region- by an Evolved cardial tradition, with a strong influence from the Po’ basin’s Early neolithic cultures. These came from a complex network of contacts used to exchange raw materials from the Alps between early neolithic groups of the italo-provencal region. This network evolved still more during the Middle neolithic under the influence of the SMP culture, which formed the basis for of a different faciès –already identified in different Provencal sites- that’s placed before the Chasseen middle neolithic. This one spread out from France to northern Italy, cutting the great cultural homogeneity of the SMP culture, first along the coast, further inland. The Late neolithic levels of the Adaouste cave show the characteristics of the region, independent from the influences of the Alpine region
Lo studio delle industrie neolitiche, ceramica e litiche, nonché l’analisi di alcuni aspetti del rituale funerario della grotta dell’Adaouste, ha permesso di precisare alcuni aspetti riguardanti la neolitizzazione della regione provenzale. La fase finale del Neolitico cardiale si caratterizza per una tradizione cardiale evoluta, influenzata dalle culture del Neolitico antico della valle del Po’. Tali influenze prendono origine dalla rete di contatti stabilita per lo scambio di materie prime di origine alpina tra i gruppi italo-provenzali del neolitico antico. La rete di scambi si rinforza durante il Neolitico medio, sotto la spinta dei gruppi della cultura VBQ, che danno origine ad una faciès uniforme e riconoscibile –individuata in vari siti provenzali- che precede il Neolitico chasséen. Quest’ultimo –anch’esso presente nella grotta- si diffonde dalla Francia all’Italia settentrionale, prima sulla costa e successivamente nelle zone interne, interrompendo la grande omogeneità culturale della cultura VBQ. I livelli del Neolitico finale evolvono in maniera autonoma, senza rapporti con la zona alpina, conformemente al contesto regionale
Martin, Lucie. "Agriculture et alimentation végétale en milieu montagnard durant le Néolithique : nouvelles données carpologiques dans les Alpes françaises du Nord". Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00536982.
Pełny tekst źródłaCauliez, Jessie. "Espaces culturels et espaces stylistiques au néolithique final dans le sud de la France : dynamiques de formation et d'évolution des productions céramiques". Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX10015.
Pełny tekst źródłaMillet-Richard, Laure-Anne. "Habitats et ateliers de taille au néolithique final dans la région du Grand-Pressigny (Indre-et-Loire) : technologie lithique". Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010595.
Pełny tekst źródłaDuring the european middle chalcolithic (french late neolithic), in the pressignian region (indre-et-loire), knappers produced, from cores "livres de beurre", long flint blades (22 to about 40 cm) afterwards diffused to remote countries. The aim of this thesis is the study of relations between settlements and knapping works. The main question has concerned the place of the settlement of the "livres de beurre's" knappers-craftsmen. The study is based on 3 sites recently excaved : 2 settlements and 1 knapping heap (about 50 m2). On this, the prevailing activity has been preliminary flaking and "debitage" of the "livres de beurre". More unskilful knappers had knapped these cores another time, probably in the absence of craftsmen. In the settlements, levels of know-how of knappers were clearly inferior to that of craftsmen. These were then probably absent of settlements. A recently study of the deposit of flint blades of la creusette (barrou) has showed that it wasn't a reserve for employing gradually but it was a stock that a craftsman had to take after. The knapping works of vercors attests the displacement of knappers-craftsmen who adapted themself to the local raw material. Regarding the available archeological data, it probably seems that craftsmen didn't live permanently in the pressignian country but they came for time to time for knapping blades that they distributed later to other human groups, probably following exchange waves. After regarding the pressignian objects spread in other countries, 4 exchange systems have been proposed. The craftsmen's statut would increase according to the distance which separated them to the pressignian deposit. It will be indispensable to verify if craftsmen lived or not in the pressignian region during the future excavations in the pressignian country
Blanchard, Audrey. "Le Néolithique récent de l’Ouest de la France (IVe – IIIe millénaires avant J. -C. ) : productions et dynamiques culturelles". Rennes 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN1S074.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis original research aims at tightening the chronological and cultural framework of the Late Neolithic in western France. The fragmented cultural entities defined on the sole basis of ceramic assemblages form a mosaic that has, until now, undermined our understanding of Neolithic society. This reductive vision of the Neolithic needed to be updated in the light of recent and often unpublished discoveries. The topic of this research encompasses the late neolithic period, from 3800 to 2900/2800 BC. The study area spreads from southern Brittany to southern Vendée and to the Centre-West of France. The original approach of this project is based on the typo-technological study of material culture (lithic industry and ceramics), completed by physicochemical analyses (petrography, Raman spectrometry, organic chemistry). This may seem like an ambitious project, as it covers the totality of available data from material productions, human settlement and funerary contexts to trade and diffusion. Among the various themes that are approached in this synthesis is the notion of habitat and its perennial or temporary nature, a topic that has not previously been studied for this period. Thus, contexts and material cultures are studied in order to understand group and individual mobility. This prompts us to reconsider the favoured exchange and circulation corridors constituted by maritime and fluvial spaces and their role in the organisation of the territory. Funerary practices and the megalithic constructions associated with them form a basis for our theories because they are representative of the [Neolithic] society. At the end of our work, we propose a chronological sequence that divides the period into three shorter ones, reflecting the different rhythms suggested by lithic and ceramic assemblages
Bongni, Florence. "Contribution à l'étude des sites littoraux du Néolithique et de l'Age du Bronze au nord-ouest des Alpes : étude des collections du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Laboratoire de préhistoire, Musée de l'homme et Institut de paléontologie humaine)". Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000MNHN0025.
Pełny tekst źródłaChateauneuf, Florent. "Les dolmens de la fin du Néolithique en Languedoc oriental : élement discriminants pour leur étude technique et chronologique". Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3141/document.
Pełny tekst źródłaTo the southeast of the Massif Central, East Languedoc encompasses the three French departments of Ardèche, Gard and Hérault. With nearly 1,600 listed dolmens, mostly located on small limestone plateaus, the area contains the second megalithic concentration in the country, behind the Grands Causses region. The study of dolmens is ancient, since first hypotheses concerning their function back to the early 19th century. In the south of France, they have led to the classification of graves in three typological groups (Arnal 1963; Chevalier 1984). It appears, from recent publications, an embarrassment to adhere fully to the three main types, without questioning them. Therefore, the first fruits of our reflection included a number of questions regarding the adequacy of the current type and the state of knowledge in the west of the Rhone. The central issue of our work has been on the one hand to demonstrate expertise megalithic and secondly to try to resolve issues of chronology and cultural affiliation of Languedoc graves. In this context, we explored the monuments through three main axes. The first took the form of morphological and comparative analysis of dolmens, freed of typological presupposition. The second led us to bring the interrogation in the field of techniques. The recognition of the choices made by the builders can trace megalithic operating chain and identify possible differences in cultural. The third view is the symbolic implications of the choice of the orientation of the grave. The reasons which led to favor a particular orientation seem indeed related to worship or environmental factors, or a combination of these factors
Allard, Pierre. "Matières premières, technologie lithique et identité culturelle des populations rubanées du nord-est de la France et de la Belgique". Paris 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA010518.
Pełny tekst źródłaBernigaud, Nicolas. "Les anthroposystèmes des marais de Bourgoin-La-Verpillière (Isère) du néolithique final à l'antiquité tardive (3000 av. J. C. -600 ap. J. -C. : archéologie du paysage et de l'environnement". Nice, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012NICE2022.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe marshes of Bourgoin-la Verpillière are located in the Isère department, nearly forty kilometers east of Vienne and Lyon. This large and humid depression, used for pastures and mowing fields since the Middle Ages, was drained at the beginning of the 19th century AD. With poplar plantations and cornfields, these ancient marshes are presently cultivated, with a geometric parcel plan organized around the large drainage canals of the Bourbre and the Catelan. The aim of this dissertation is to study, from an « anthroposytemic» perspective, the way in which man has taken advantage of and transformed the marshes ecosystem over the last few millennia. To do so, one has to study simultaneously environmental history and human practices. Surveys were conducted within the marshes in order to map archaeological settlements. This was complemented by the study of aerial photographs to identify fossil traces of old channels, canals and ditches. A backhoe was used to dig trenches across a few of them. Their sedimentary fill was studied, dated and paleobotanical analyses conducted by specialists (palynology, paleoethnobotany, charcoal studies). Results put forward the development and construction of hydraulic structures between the Iron Age and the end of Antiquity (5th century BC-5th century AD). Some of the canal networks, which divert water from natural channels, were defined as gravity irrigation systems, which irrigated grasslands. Others are networks of ditches, which allowed for the farming of parts of the marshes (vineyards, hemp, cereals) during Antiquity. Most of the archaeological settlements recovered in the marsh date from that period. They are interpreted as small settlements specialized in artisanal and agricultural activities
Goude, Gwenaëlle. "Etude des modes de subsistance de populations néolithiques (VIe-IVe millénaires av. J. -C. ) dans le nord-ouest de la Méditerranée : approche par l'utilisation des isotopes stables (13C et 15N) du collagène". Bordeaux 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR13369.
Pełny tekst źródłaAt the end of the 7th millennium BC, social and economic changes occurred in the Northwestern Mediterranean linked with the introduction of Neolithic material culture into the region. A key change was the introduction of new methods of food production, particularly animal husbandry and agricultural techniques, as evidenced by archaeological, archaeozoological and archaeobotanic studies. Stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) of human bone collagen provides direct dietary information on the protein sources in human diets, including the relative amounts of marine vs. Terrestrial and animal vs. Plant protein in diets. Isotopic analysis was performed on one hundred human remains from early and middle Neolithic sites in South of France and Liguria, and on associated animal bones. Results indicate among others things that despite the relatively close proximity to the sea, there was no evidence of any significant consumption of marine foods. Additionally, there was some difference in isotopic values within and between populations which may indicate that there was possible dietary social differentiation
Marticorena, Pablo. "Lames polies et sociétés néolithiques en Pyrénées nord occidentales : synthèse régionale à la lumière d'un outil emblématique". Paris 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA010653.
Pełny tekst źródłaBec, Drelon Noisette. "Autour du coffre : dispositifs et aménagements des monuments funéraires mégalithiques en Languedoc et en Roussillon (IVe/IIe millénaires)". Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3143/document.
Pełny tekst źródłaAfter two years of studies on Languedoc-Roussillon’s dolmens, our research is directed towards the recognition of tumuli which enclose the megalithic burial chambers. How are they built, with what materials and how? What are their functions? Can we identify a typology, differences / similarities geographical and/or cultural? Can we identify their chronological evolution through architectural dynamics? Beyond the recognition of the tumulus, it is also to investigate the periphery of these monuments, their location in the landscape and in the humanized space. The few scientific information usable on these structures involves the realization of new excavations with an appropriate methodology. The overall geographical framework of this research is the western Mediterranean basin with several specific study windows cutting across large areas of concentration of the megalithic phenomenon: the eastern Pyrenees, the Herault Garrigues, the Salagou basin, the southern edge of the Grands-Causses. Eight dolmens were excavated in the specific context of this work. We propose a model of understanding of sites of this type, from the choice of their location until their abandonment via their construction and development. This new informations allow to consider the multiple functions that these monuments have had for the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age societies
Blanchard, Audrey. "Le Néolithique récent de l'Ouest de la France (IVe - IIIe millénaires avant J.-C.) : productions et dynamiques culturelles". Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00745093.
Pełny tekst źródłaBattentier, Janet. "Gestion des espaces forestiers provençaux et ligures au Néolithique : approche anthracologique". Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AZUR2009.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe Liguro-Provençal region extends from the Northern Apennines to the Rhone River and from the Southern Alps to the Mediterranean Sea. In this region, the emergence and the development of agro-pastoral subsistence economies, at the beginning of the VIth mill. BCE, led to changes in pre-existing forest cover and in interactions between societies and the landscapes they exploited. This work specifies the modalities of these transformations through charcoal analyses of remains from 6 well-documented archaeological sites that were occupied from the end of the Mesolithic (Castelnovian) to the late Neolithic (6500-2000 cal. BCE), including la Font-aux-Pigeons (Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône), l’abri Pendimoun (Castellar, Alpes-Maritimes), « RD 560/RD 28 déviation de St-Maximin » and « le Clos de Roques/Route de Barjols » (Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Var), la Grotte de Pertus II (Méailles, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), Ponteau (Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône) and Limon-Raspail (Bédoin, Vaucluse). These sites occupied a variety of environments ranging from the coast to regions reaching 1000 m a.s.l, and include occupations that were temporary to sub-permanent. As a result, this research has filled previously existing chronological, geographical and settlement pattern lacunae. Examination of a broad corpus of charcoal and pollen data (78 botanical sequences from archaeological and natural contexts) permits us to propose nuanced scenarios on landscape evolution and its relation to practices carried out across the Liguro-Provençal region.While vegetation dynamics seem relatively synchronous across this zone, their translation in terms of landscape is more variable. During the Castelnovian and Impressa (6500-5600/5400 cal. BCE) periods, our study reveals the predominance of forest taxa such as deciduous oak (Quercus deciduous), elm (Ulmus sp.), lime (Tilia sp.) and the expansion of fir (Abies sp.), which supports the importance of dense, diversified and sub-mature forests, on a broad altitudinal gradient. Open landscapes (evergreen taxa and light-demanding conifers) also prevailed in the lowlands and at high altitudes. These open landscapes appear to have been more attractive for settlement than fir forests, maybe because they are more favourable for the main subsistence activities of both groups (hunting, farming, pastoralism). From the mediterranean to alpine stages, there was a discreet rise in plant-types that are more competitive to the opening up of the canopy, and a decrease of taxa that are more sensitive to open conditions as a response to the first anthropogenic disturbances of the forest cover, from as early as the second half of the VIth mill. BCE. This trend increased with time as forests opened up and were replaced by more disturbance-adapted formations that grew in the form of coppices. This process unfolded in parallel with the diversification of territorial exploitation (lowland to upland) and of its woody resources. However, despite concordance between the development of the staged exploitation of the environment and anthropogenic pressures related to the expansion of agro-pastoral systems, the maintenance of deciduous oak forests in the hinterland is attested by charcoal sequences from sites such as Limon-Raspail and Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume until the late Neolithic. Thus, over the course of the Neolithic, the anthropogenic opening of the forest cover probably unfolded in the form of increasingly widespread thinning but which remained limited in space. These landscape transformations are characterized by a decline of forest cover and by a decrease of their diversity on the one hand, and by the rise and the diversification of taxa related to open landscapes on the other hand, highlighting the contribution of Neolithic practices to the genesis of the current vegetal landscape
Piatscheck, Clara. "Production et consommation des outils de pierre taillée à la fin du Néolithique en Provence : caractérisation pluridisciplinaire et renouvellement méthodologique". Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3046/document.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe lithic industry from the Late Neolithic of Provence stays quite imperceptible if studied by a classic technique and typology approach. Its caracteristics, a dichotomy represented by standardized long blade productions coming from specialized workshops on one hand, and a technically simplified domestic production of wich standards aren't easy to find on the other, need a higher resolution improvement in the observations that are made. Those ones, then of a petrographical and traceological nature, allow a better understanding of the operating chains as well as to identify the tools they are destinated to produce. It then is possible to propose a more adapted typology and to show the existing standards. The comparison of the lithic industries of three complementary occupations illustrates the advantages of the methodology developped in this work and suggests, at last, a sketch of the caracteristics of the lithic industry from this period
Perrin, Thomas. "Évolution du silex taillé dans le Néolithique haut-rhodanien autour de la stratigraphie du Gardon (Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain)". Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2001. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00347243.
Pełny tekst źródłaCette thèse s'organise en quatre parties principales, regroupant seize chapitres. La première est une présentation générale du travail (cadre géographique et chronologique). Elle est aussi l'occasion d'exposer les concepts à la base des analyses ainsi que la méthodologie employée. La seconde partie consiste en un état des connaissance sur les industries lithiques de l'ensemble du Néolithique haut-rhodanien. La troisième est celle de l'analyse des 17 000 silex taillés néolithiques de la grotte du Gardon. La coexistence de couches d'occupation et de niveaux d'inondation, ainsi que la présence de zone de biseautage impliquent une fiabilité différente des échantillons considérés. Chaque ensemble a été abordé individuellement d'un point de vue technologique et typologique, dans le but de dégager les schémas opératoires propres à chacune des couches. La confrontation de ces résultats à ceux obtenus sur d'autres aspects du système technique et aux données chrono-stratigraphiques permet d'affiner ou de rediscuter les attributions culturelles proposées. Dans la quatrième et dernière partie, les résultats obtenus sur la grotte sont confrontés aux données régionales. Il est alors possible de construire un cadre évolutif général des industries lithiques et, plus largement, des groupes culturels néolithiques du Centre-Est de la France.
Blaise, Emilie. "Economie animale et gestion des troupeaux au Néolithique final en Provence : approche archéozoologique et contribution des analyses isotopiques de l'émail dentaire (version non corrigée)". Phd thesis, Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00402302.
Pełny tekst źródłaLe, Bras-Goude Gwenaëlle. "Étude des modes de subsistance de populations néolithiques (VIe-IVe millénaires av. J.-C.) dans le nord-ouest de la Méditerranée. Approche par l'utilisation des isotopes stables (d13C et d15N) du collagène". Phd thesis, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I, 2007. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00335785.
Pełny tekst źródłaSévin-Allouet, Christophe. "Durabilité et hiérarchie des sépultures collectives dans le Nord-Ouest de la France et dans les Îles Britanniques (4500-2500 avant J. -C. )". Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010535.
Pełny tekst źródłaLambert, Aurore. "Etudes des modèles d'activités par l'analyse fonctionnelle du squelette post-cranien de séries ostéoarchéologiques du néolithique final en Provence". Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM5066/document.
Pełny tekst źródłaOur work has two aims. First, the joint analysis of the indicators in order to qualify the relationship between their developments based on the mechanical loads. Then, the study of the behavioral patterns of one collective funeral deposit in Vaucluse: the hypogeum of Boileau. Then, we expand the study at the departmental scale while comparing four funeral deposits: the Capitaine and Roaix hypogeums and the dolmen of the Ubac. The goal is to apprehend the homogeneity or the specificity of behaviors between subjects and samples through the various indicators thanks to the long bones. No relationship due to mechanical loads aroused between the indicators. Their developments are not influenced by the presence of another one and do not infer it. Indicators bring complementary information on a global skeleton or a smaller scale.The activities of the Boileau hypogeum subjects are bilateral and specialized activities is difficult to prove. Males have a physical investment equal to females for the upper limb with a few behavioral differences. Men are more mobile and their recurring postural mode for the lower limb is different. The squatting posture is common for both sexes. We propose a sexual division of labor.Inter-samples stressed a behavioral uniformity with a few nuances depending of the samples along the postural mode of the lower limb and the solicited muscles of the upper limb. The terrain has no real impact on the robusticity of the lower limb for all the samples. The artifacts in the burials cannot be used to reconstruct the behavioral patterns.Our work shed light on occupational markers and the data behavioral patterns of late Neolithic populations
Charraud, François. "Espaces interculturels et évolution des systèmes techniques au Néolithique dans le Nord-Ouest de la France : productions, usages et circulation des outillages en silex jurassiques de Normandie". Thesis, Nice, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013NICE2007/document.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis thesis addresses the question of the Neolithisation of the Northwest of France, throught the analysis of the industries based on Jurassic flint from the Neolithic sequence in Normandy. Subject of several environmental and cultural influences, this region is essential for understanding the dynamics and socio-economic behaviors in the Neolithisation process. Normandy is characterized by a geological environment with excellent flint sources used throughout Prehistory, used here as markers of these behaviors and their evolution over the long term. The aim is to characterize the productions related to these sources and their distribution, the chronological and cultural sequence in which they operate, taking into account all the processes of chaîne opératoire, from flints procurement to the abandonment contexts. Restore a coherent vision of the process involves a protocol that melts typo-morphological, functional and technological approaches, to meet the structural link between the economies of raw materials, production and tools management. The study on the long-term use of a particular type of resource gives a specific point of view about Neolithisation of the Northwest of France. Continuities and ruptures, permanence or extinction of chaînes opératoires, technical processes and distribution channels restore a piece of technical evolution and cultural significance of the Neolithic societies
Hoffmann, Alizé. "Impacts de la néolithisation sur l'évolution des systèmes hôtes-parasites : étude paléoparasitologique des sociétés mésolithiques et néolithiques dans le sud-est de la France et le nord-est de l'Espagne". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Toulouse 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU20066.
Pełny tekst źródłaPaleoparasitology is the study of parasitic remains in archaeological context. The neolithization process with all that it implies in terms of socio-economic changes has helped to modify our relations to parasitic diseases. The first humanity epidemiological transition was induced by the establishment and intensification of agro-pastoral systems. The populations clustering, the sedentarisation, the presence in the same space of different species (animal and vegetable, especially allochthonous), the deforestation, the irrigation, the use of fertilizer, the parking or the storage are as many behaviors that impacted host / parasite systems. The deposits in our corpus focused on southwestern France and northeastern Spain.Through the analysis of helminth eggs, the way in which parasitic/host/environmental systems have adapted to the socio-economic transformations of human populations, as well as the health consequences on human populations of this anthropisation, have been understood. In addition, thanks to a dual approach (chronological and geographical) to European deposits with different biotopes, from our corpus integrated with those available in the bibliography, it has been possible to specify and compare the extent of human influence on parasitic/host systems. The deposits sampled in this study came from very different contexts, including chronology, geology, taphonomy and type of use. The most suitable facies for the conservation of helminth eggs were therefore identified
Renard, Caroline. "L'industrie lithique à la fin du Néolithique dans le bassin de la Seine, de la deuxième moitié du IVe millénaire à la fin du IIIe millénaire av. J. -C". Paris 1, 2010. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01163947.
Pełny tekst źródłaSemelier, Patricia. "Ossements humains et enceintes néolithiques : l'exemple du Centre-Ouest de la France". Bordeaux 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR13488.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe ditches which bound the neolithic surrounding walls deliver regularly human rests which range from the skeleton to the isolated bone remains. The interpretations of these last ones are various : their status depends on the function of these zones : environment, funeral place, even religious center etc. West central France is a region where these moated sites, dated for most of them recent and final neolithic are particularly numerous. On the scale of this region the target of this survey is to discuss the sepulchral character of these remains considering the various cultural communities. Additional elements from the most recent excavations enable the interpretation of these bone remains through analyses of the differential representation, abnormalities of osseous surface and the spatial criteria on site location. The results obtained not only highlight but seem to confirm the importance of this phenomenon because some cadavers obviously have had original funeral treatments. So for the considered period the main issue concerns the role of these bone remains in comparison with those found in the collective graves
Stocchetti, Sonia. "Le mégalithisme en Basse-Ardèche : approche architecturale". Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30067.
Pełny tekst źródłaArdèche is one of the richest departments in megalithic monuments. The outstanding density of dolmens in the south of this area is unique in France and even in Europe. Erection of these monuments occurred from late Neolithic (around 3 500 years BC) until early Bronze Age (around 2 000 years BC). Given its location in the vicinity of Massif Central, Causses, Languedoc and the Rhône valley, Ardèche appears as a crossroad where ideas and artefacts may have circulated and been exchanged. If these spreadings are particularly clear from potteries, they also have disrupted burial rites, from attention paid to dead people to the choice of burial places. By late Neolithic, inhumation fades away and finally makes way to deposits of dead bodies in caves or within the chamber of the dolmens. More than 800 dolmens have been accounted throughout the area. Most of the monuments are located in Southern Ardèche, on limestone plateaus. However, some dolmens suffer a bad preservation which compelled us to work on 500 monuments.We study these monuments through three architectural features previously identified (Languedocian dolmens, Causse dolmens and lower Rhodanian dolmens), and their location that may be linked to natural or anthropic influences. We are able to set up a chronology of use of these dolmens from grave goods and transformations of the monuments caused by secondary burials. We also focus on the evolving of the monuments and the means we have to safeguard, emphasize and to hand down these dolmens to future generations
Negroni, Sabine. "Analyse fonctionnelle des industries lithiques taillées de la fin du Néolithique en Provence (3500-2500 av. J.C.)". Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3085.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe period from 3500 to 2500 BC is marked by a profound transformation of societies. In the Provence area, there is a breakdown of the Middle Neolithic complex. Changes are reflected by lithic industries. We can observe technological changes, including raw material supply. New production methods are emerging . Large blades from specialized workshops begin to spread.Our study focuses on six settlement of the Provence area. These occupations give socio-economic information. Indeed, they have both stone industries produced on sites and blades imported from workshops. The interest is to take into account all the components of the lithic assemblages, to note what are the differences in consumption and management between the tools, first across the site and between sites.For this, the method of selection of tools was cumbersome, time-consuming and was based on observation with the naked eye and low magnification before microscopic observations. The determinations made from microscopic observations were compared with existing experimental repositories. Some comparisons have required the use of experimental ethnographic repositories. After the observation of certain archaeological tools, specific experiments were performed to specifically address some issues of our study to develop a new corpus poorly represented at the moment
Debels, Pauline. "Fonction des sites, fonction des céramiques : étude tracéologique des céramiques et pratiques alimentaires des sites de grottes, plateaux et plaines du Sud de la France au Néolithique final (3600-2300 cal. BC)". Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30093.
Pełny tekst źródłaUse-wear analysis of Late Neolithic potteries of the Languedoc and neighbouring regions (Ardèche and Bouches-du-Rhône), in caves and in open field contexts of lowland and plateaus
Donat, Richard. "Société, environnement et état sanitaire au Néolithique récent : les groupes humains des hypogées I et II du Mont-Aimé (Val-des-Marais, Marne)". Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020TOU30218.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe Neolithic era inaugurated a change in the way of life and subsistence of human populations marked by a major social, economic, demographic and epidemiological transition. This essay focuses on the cultural identity and health status of human groups engaged for nearly two millennia in the process of Neolithization of Western Europe, at a time when, among other changes, the use of collective burials was widely adopted. In France, on the eastern margin of the Paris Basin, the group of some 150 hypogea of the Marne, to which the Mont-Aimé tombs belong, perfectly illustrates this phenomenon. Hypogea I and II of Mont-Aimé (Val-des-Marais, Marne) represent the oldest manifestations of this funerary type in the Paris Basin, where collective burials flourished during the late Neolithic (3500-2900 cal BC). The two tombs date from the second quarter of the 4th millennium BC, which marks the transition between the end of the middle Neolithic and the beginning of the late Neolithic in north-central France. The use of the tombs may have continued until the dawn of the third millennium. Each hypogeum held the remains of nearly 60 individuals. The incorporation of each of the tombs of Mont-Aimé, which differs in composition by the age and sex of the buried groups, may have been partly (or for a time) conditioned by a system of descent that suggests a possible female/male polarity. Abundant and varied, the funerary furniture (ornamental objects, tools, arrowheads, etc.) distinguishes some of the deceased: inside the same tomb, some individuals were adorned and/or accompanied by quivers, while others were devoid of any personal equipment. The dead undoubtedly were placed in their final resting place shortly after death, thus following the standard practice adopted in the collective late Neolithic tombs of the Paris Basin, where the practice of primary burial was predominant, even if other treatments are marginally attested. The removal of part of the skulls from the supposedly male-dominant hypogeum II is perhaps part of an imaginary and identity relationship to the past, elevating some of the deceased to the status of ancestors or other symbolic metamorphoses. In addition, the health status of the two groups reveals similarities, but above all, more or less significant divergences. [...]
Orgeval, Maxime. "La céramique fontbuxienne des plaines du Languedoc oriental". Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30078.
Pełny tekst źródłaIn eastern Languedoc, during the late Neolithic, there has been a significant increase in prehistoric settlements, especially in the late Neolithic 3 (Fontbouisse culture). This area has been divided in cultural facies, mainly on the basis of ceramic production (Gutherz, 1975; 1990). Research has mostly focused on the garrigue’s dry stone villages from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Indeed, from those years, archaeological surveys have focused in plain, on ditch system settlements over several hectares. The abundant ceramicware deserved further analysis. This work will focus on several plain ceramic series dated to late Neolithic 3. The massive amount of ceramicware will make it possible to assess whether patterns in ceramic production can be observed. The value of this work is twofold: outline stylistic trends emerging from the sets studied, use the context of stratigraphic successions of fillings to refine the chronology of ceramic production and its evolution during late Neolithic 3