During road construction at Le Boisanne, near Plouer-sur-Rance, the discovery of a pottery was followed by the excavation of a neolithic pit.
Narrowand deep, this isolated pit was larger on its east side, A level of charcoal in the top of filling has produced a carbon 14 date. The pottery has some affinities with the Cerny Group. The hypothesis of a grave can be suggested.
The Bronze Age burial ground " La Croix de la Mission " at Marolles-sur-Seine presents a group of 13 ring ditches, 9 burials and 32 cremations of the Late Bronze Age. Two skeletons were dated by Carbon 14 : the first, buried in the central area of the largest ring ditch, confirmed the founding of the necropolis during the Early Bronze Age. The second, buried in the ditch of another of the monuments with a small collection of flint blades and flakes, dates to the Late Bronze Age and corresponds to the last phase of use of the necropolis. The Late Bronze Age cremations can be divided into different categories : cremations with a simple funerary urn or perishable container, complex burials consisting of a funerary urn accompanied by other vessels, or monumental burials. Anthropological studies raise new questions concerning burial rites of this period : recurrent manipulations reveal a wide variety of funerary practices.
Les fouilles en contexte de sablière effectuées dans la confluence Seine-Yonne (Seine-et-Marne) ont permis la mise au jour d'une trentaine de structures d'ensilage contenant un ou plusieurs dépôts humains. Cette mise à l'écart de la nécropole communautaire, attestée surtout à La Tène ancienne et moyenne, est trop récurrente pour relever de l'anecdotique ou de la simple réutilisation opportuniste d'une fosse domestique délaissée. La seule relégation d'individus de rang inférieur et/ou de criminels semble insatisfaisante : l'étude de ces structures met en lumière une réelle gestuelle, parfois complexe et anticipée, qui autorise l'association de ces " silos-dépôts " à la sphère des pratiques cultuelles laténiennes. Au-delà de répondre à la nécessité de gérer les cadavres, cette structure associe un humain choisi, un animal sélectionné ou même in investissement mobilier à un monde souterrain lié à la fertilité et à la conservation des grains.
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