La parure d'ambre à l'âge du Bronze en France

Gardin, Colette Du

doi:10.3406/bspf.1986.8725

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“…The Aptian amber-bearing deposits are rare in France. Lacroix (1910), and subsequently Du Gardin (1986), have mentioned Aptian amber in the Saint-Suzanne Costebarbe marls in the department of Pyrénées Atlantiques, southwest France. However, we have no more details about this amber and its deposit environment.…”

Section: Stratigraphical Rangementioning

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Reassessment of amber-bearing deposits of Provence, southeastern France

Martin¹,

Dutour²,

Ebbo³

et al. 2021

BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull.

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The presence of “geological” amber (or “succin” in old French monographs) has been reported for several centuries in Provence in the Mesozoic deposits of Provence, southeastern France. Diverse amber-bearing sites have been inventoried but their location and precise age remained unclear for most of them. In the past decades, various data concerning chemistry, palaeontological content and comparison with archaeological improved our knowledge of the ambers of the region, but only of Cretaceous age. The present review of the amber-bearing deposits of Provence, including the discovery of new sites, highlights the amber potential of Provence and allow to consider a wide range times, from the lower Cretaceous to the Miocene.

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Section: Stratigraphical Rangementioning

confidence: 99%

Reassessment of amber-bearing deposits of Provence, southeastern France

Martin¹,

Dutour²,

Ebbo³

et al. 2021

BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull.

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“…The long distance trade of objects used as beads, well attested during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic (Álvarez-Fernández 2001;Eriksen 2002;Martinez-Moreno, Mora, and Casanova 2010;Rigaud 2013;Zvelebil 2006), supplied the raw materials to regions where they were naturally rare or absent but where beads were still desired. The absence of amber ornaments outside the Baltic area cannot be attributed to the lack of this raw material: amber outcrops are documented in many regions of Europe (Czebreszuk 2007;Desailly 1930;Gardin 1986) and were exploited during the Upper Paleolithic (Beck, Chantre, and Sacchi 1987;White 2007) and probably the Bronze Age (Gardin 1986). Raw material availability also fails to explain the near complete absence of perforated shells in the Baltic area, where numerous suitable shell species were available, at least at the beginning of the transgression circa 8-7.2 ka, (Gutiérrez-Zugasti 2011; Høisaeter 2009; Lewis 2011).…”

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High level connections as a key component for the rapid dispersion of the Neolithic in Europe

Rigaud¹

2021

Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: DFG Center for Advanced Studies

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The transition to farming represents the process by which humans switched from hunting and gathering wild resources to a reliance on domesticated plants and animals. The adoption of domestication and sedentary life was probably promoted by a new system of beliefs and a profound reconfiguration of symbolic and social codes. This paper aims to present how personal ornaments inform the social reorganization of communities by tracking the multiple forms of interactions between groups and individuals. Technological and use-wear analysis of personal adornments, combined with the analysis of a georeferenced database of the bead types used by the last foragers and the first farmers in Europe, explores how interactions and communication networks led to the social reconfiguration of cultural groups and reshaped the cultural geography of Europe 8,000 years ago. The circulation of personal ornaments contributed to building and maintaining extensive and persistent networks of communication between hunter-gatherers and farmers. Long-term stability of contacts enabled the circulation of social, technical, and economic information, essential for the diffusion of the farming lifestyle. The long-term persistence of personal attires within farming communities suggests beads reflected the most entrenched and lasting facets of a farmer’s identity compared to other cultural proxies.

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“…There has been a steady growth in detailed studies of artefacts allowing much more rigorous assessment of similarities and differences on either side of the Channel. Particularly pertinent are the studies of daggers (Gerloff 1975;Gallay 1981), arrowheads (Green 1980;Briard 1984), vase a anse pottery (Briard 1984;Tomalin 1988), flat and flanged axes (Needham 1979;Blanchet & Mordant 1987), goldwork (Taylor 1974;Eluere 1982) and amber (Beck & Shennan 1991;du Gardin 1986;Butler & Waterbolk 1974). Compositional analysis of some of the metalwork also has a bearing (eg, Britton 1961;Ottaway 1974;Briard & Bourhis 1984;Needham et al 1989).…”

Section: Links Between Armorica and Britain Attested By Artefactsmentioning

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Power Pulses Across a Cultural Divide: Cosmologically Driven Acquisition Between Armorica and Wessex

Needham

2000

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Understanding of the nature and significance of connections between Armorica and southern Britain in the Early Bronze Age has been inhibited by poorly refined chronologies. The Armorican grave series is now believed to span seven to eight centuries (c. 2300/2200–1500 BC) and association patterns are used to suggest five assemblages (series 1–5). In the absence of many skeletal remains, structural and organisational evidence is gleaned to suggest that some tombs were not immutably sealed and were used more than once. It is suggested that the accumulation of successive grave groups, primarily in series 2 and 4, is one factor blurring signs of chronological progression, whilst added complexity derives from regional shifts.A review of specific artefact types and burial rites on the two sides of the western Channel gives little credence to the migration of more than occasional individuals. On the contrary, an essential autonomy in the way that materials and artefacts are employed by elites comes through, yet this is set against some important material connections. The conundrum is resolved by suggesting that inter-dependence was actually limited and that the procurement of exotic materials/goods was driven by ‘cosmological acquisition’ needs which, if anything, maintained real differences between distant participating societies. In Wessex, however, the growth of this mode of extracting ideological capital from long-range contacts was to have profound consequences for superordinate centres based around Late Neolithic ceremonial complexes – their ultimate transformation and eclipse.

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La parure d'ambre à l'âge du Bronze en France

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Reassessment of amber-bearing deposits of Provence, southeastern France

Reassessment of amber-bearing deposits of Provence, southeastern France

High level connections as a key component for the rapid dispersion of the Neolithic in Europe

Power Pulses Across a Cultural Divide: Cosmologically Driven Acquisition Between Armorica and Wessex

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