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Gilles, André; Antolín, Ferran; Bader, Martin A.; Bailly, Maxence; Denaire, Anthony; Follmann, Franziska; Jacomet, Stéfanie; Jesus, Ana; Quesnel, Yoann; Reggio, Adrien; Röder, Brigitte; Willigen, Samuel van

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“…Another 72 structures from this timeframe are located in what appear to be shallow natural hollows probably linked to the site’s natural topography. The area of this older phase formed part of an active alluvial plain-type environment [ 15 ]. Furthermore, the excavation revealed a large hollow filled with heating stones, a possible silo pit whose dating remains unclear, cremation graves, and several mortuary structures [ 15 , 24 ].…”

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“…The area of this older phase formed part of an active alluvial plain-type environment [ 15 ]. Furthermore, the excavation revealed a large hollow filled with heating stones, a possible silo pit whose dating remains unclear, cremation graves, and several mortuary structures [ 15 , 24 ]. There is so far no indication of the presence of buildings that can be attributed to this occupation [ 15 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the excavation revealed a large hollow filled with heating stones, a possible silo pit whose dating remains unclear, cremation graves, and several mortuary structures [ 15 , 24 ]. There is so far no indication of the presence of buildings that can be attributed to this occupation [ 15 ]. However, the numerous shallow structures, as well as other larger and deeper features, suggests that the absence of underground silos cannot be attributed to erosion.…”

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“…Therefore, a reconstruction of the function and the organisation of this space is difficult. For the moment there are two main hypotheses: The first supposes it corresponds to “a zone of activities linked to a nearby habitat, with a nearby peripheral area relegated to the dead” [ 15 ], while the second points to “a link between the graves and these same zones of activities used probably for ritual purposes (feasting? )” [ 15 ].…”

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“…This crop is well adapted to the Mediterranean climate and was easily threshed and stored as clean grain, but it is also often attacked by insect pests, who fed from the grains without hulls. After a long period of stability of the crop assemblage in the area, certain authors suspect an influence of a series of stress factors after 4000 B.C., such as an increase of soil erosion due to anthropogenic or natural fires, global cooling, hydrological oscillations, and periodical flooding [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ], coinciding with an apparent regional demographic decline (observed in southern France) [ 17 , 18 ]. These factors appear to have yielded an agricultural model where glume wheats gain in prominence [ 3 , 12 ].…”

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Small Animals, Big Impact? Early Farmers and Pre- and Post-Harvest Pests from the Middle Neolithic Site of Les Bagnoles in the South-East of France (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur)

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Pests appear to have accompanied humans and their crops since the beginning of farming. Nevertheless, their study is only rarely integrated into research on farming in prehistory. An assemblage of invertebrates and small mammals was recovered from the waterlogged layers of three wells at the Middle Neolithic site (4250–3700 cal B.C.) of Les Bagnoles (SE France). The microfaunal remains were retrieved from sediment samples by wet sieving (wash-over technique). The most common among the rodents is the wood mouse. The assemblage also consists of insect remains of grain weevil, seed beetle, and corn ground beetle. The different finds not only offer data on the role of insect and rodent pests in the Neolithic but on the possible strategies adopted by the early farming communities in the western Mediterranean in response to pest infestation. The findings appear to confirm the hypothesis that the wood mouse was a commensal and storage pest in settlements long before the arrival of the invasive house mouse during the Bronze Age. The presence of the main storage pest, the grain weevil, suggests a long-term grain storage issue at Les Bagnoles. The combination of the results of the site’s archaeobotanical findings with those of other sites in the western Mediterranean suggests that the shift from naked to glume wheat around 4000 B.C. may also stem from a reaction to the problem of grain weevil infestation.

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