2. Funerary Treatment of Immature Deceased in Neolithic Collective Burial Sites in France. Were Children Buried with Adults?

Roy, Mélie Le; Rottier, Stéphane; Santos, Frédéric; Tillier, Anne-Marie

doi:10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i26.207

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“…The sites also strongly vary in terms of funerary selection. If sex does not appear as a criterion in the selection, conversely, age is a recurring issue (Le Roy et al, 2018). However, a systematic exclusion of the youngest individuals (under 5 years of age) appears to define the normative funerary practice in the region (Le Roy, 2017; Le Roy & Recchia‐Quiniou, in press).…”

Section: Anthropological Remains and Archaeological Contextsmentioning

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Stable‐isotope analysis of collective burial sites in Southern France at late Neolithic/early Bronze Age transition

Roy

Magniez

Goude

2021

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The northwestern Mediterranean has been an area favored for bioanthropological and biogeochemical investigations for almost 20 years now. Recent studies have demonstrated that, contrary to previous thought, the diets of Neolithic people were highly diversified and could be influenced by the organizational system and specific mobility of the people. Due to the presence of numerous single burial sites in southern France, most of the stable‐isotope data obtained on human remains come from the Early–Middle Neolithic periods. Currently, very little data are available on the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. This study presents preliminary research on collective burial sites in this transitional context. A bioarchaeological analysis combined with a multi‐element (CNS) stable‐isotope analysis on human (n = 28) and animal (n = 12) bone collagen was performed for four sites in Southern France. This area provides an exceptional environment where wild and domestic terrestrial resources can be exploited, as well as river resources. Settlement documentation for the area is rare, and no relationship analysis can be performed between the burial sites and the little archaeozoological/archaeobotanical data available for the area. Although this investigation is preliminary, our results demonstrate the importance of domestic herbivores in the protein portion of the human diet, and we cautiously suggest a shift between caprine and bovine sources during the transition to the early Bronze Age. The sulfur data also indicate different environments exploited for some individuals and possibly different geographical origins, without the influence of biological (health status, sex, or age) and/or cultural (funerary treatment) parameters.

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Section: Anthropological Remains and Archaeological Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stable‐isotope analysis of collective burial sites in Southern France at late Neolithic/early Bronze Age transition

Roy

Magniez

Goude

2021

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Approche multidisciplinaire de sépultures collectives en grotte et en dolmen à la fin du Néolithique dans le Languedoc oriental et sud des Cévennes

Roy¹,

Recchia-Quiniou²

2021

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Since 2012, a research program on the study of collective burial sites dating from the end of the Neolithic period to the beginning of the Bronze Age in eastern Languedoc and the south of the Cévennes has been undertaken. Each study followed the same analysis protocol, both biologically (age at death, sex, health status) and archaeoanthropological (recruitment, reconstruction of the funerary system), as well as on the ceramic analysis.This article presents the first results, discussing the dichotomy observed in the location of these funerary sites: cavities and dolmens. The results make it possible to distinguish differences observed at different scales: structure, site and region, regarding Version anglaise abrégée rédigée par les auteurs, révisée et corrigée par K. Mazurié de Keroualin

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Multidisciplinary approach to collective burials in caves and in dolmens at the end of the Neolithic period in Eastern Languedoc and the southern part of the Cévennes—abridged version

Roy¹,

Recchia-Quiniou²

2021

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2. Funerary Treatment of Immature Deceased in Neolithic Collective Burial Sites in France. Were Children Buried with Adults?

Cited by 3 publications

References 51 publications

Stable‐isotope analysis of collective burial sites in Southern France at late Neolithic/early Bronze Age transition

Stable‐isotope analysis of collective burial sites in Southern France at late Neolithic/early Bronze Age transition

Approche multidisciplinaire de sépultures collectives en grotte et en dolmen à la fin du Néolithique dans le Languedoc oriental et sud des Cévennes

Multidisciplinary approach to collective burials in caves and in dolmens at the end of the Neolithic period in Eastern Languedoc and the southern part of the Cévennes—abridged version

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