Les Bagnoles à l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse). Aspects nouveaux dans le Néolithique moyen du midi de la France

Sargiano, Jean-Philippe; Willigen, Samuel van; Debenath, André; Renault, Stéphane; Hunger, K.; Woerle-Soares, Marie; Gaday, Robert

doi:10.3406/galip.2010.2473

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“…Vaucluse (Fig. 1), on alluvial soils (Sargiano et al 2010), within a mosaic of plant communities that go from woods by rivers to wet and dry grasslands as well as ruderal vegetation connected to human impact on the landscape (Jacomet 2020). The site was found in 2006 and excavated scientifically between 2012 and 2015 by Landesmuseum Zürich (Swiss National Museum) and the Universities of Basel and Aix-Marseille (van Willigen et al 2020a).…”

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Middle Neolithic farming of open-air sites in SE France: new insights from archaeobotanical investigations of three wells found at Les Bagnoles (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Dépt. Vaucluse, France)

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Follmann

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Veget Hist Archaeobot

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Previous reviews of Middle Neolithic agricultural practice (4400–3500 cal bc) in southern France have highlighted a change in crop assemblages after 4000 cal bc, with a reduction of naked wheat and an increase of emmer and partly of einkorn. The recent investigation of three wells from the site of Les Bagnoles (4250–3800 cal bc) in the periphery of the southern Rhône valley yielded an unprecedented amount of waterlogged uncharred and charred plant macro remains that offer new insights into crop diversity and its changes over time. The results from the wells at Les Bagnoles were compared with other dated sunken features from open-air sites (in contrast to caves and rock shelters), with the aim of identifying patterns suggesting changes in the crop spectra between the early (MN1) and late (MN2) Middle Neolithic phases from taphonomically comparable contexts. The results from Les Bagnoles demonstrate that oil crops and pulses are underrepresented in dry sites and that they were a significant part of Middle Neolithic agriculture. They also indicate an increase in the representation of einkorn (instead of emmer) during MN2 that is also visible in other open-air sites. The comparison of the archaeobotanical results with silo storage capacity values as a proxy for average production capacity per household leads us to propose a possible drop in naked wheat productivity and opens new questions in factors affecting crop choice at the beginning of the 4th millennium cal bc.

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Middle Neolithic farming of open-air sites in SE France: new insights from archaeobotanical investigations of three wells found at Les Bagnoles (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Dépt. Vaucluse, France)

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Prats

Follmann

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“…The excavation (1.5 hectares) took place in the alluvial plain of the Durance and Calavon Rivers towards the centre of the agricultural Plain of Comtat. The site has been known since 2006, when an archaeological prospection revealed burial structures and other materials [ 72 ]. A research excavation followed from 2012 to 2015, carried out by several partner institutions (University of Basel, University of Aix-Marseille; Service Régional de l’Archéologie de Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and the Direction du Patrimoine de L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue).…”

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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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“…This singular type is also known through just a few examples in the Chasséen of the south of France, with parallels to the east (Italy, central Europe, and the Balkans; Sargiano et al . 2009, 144).…”

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The Recording and Representation of Neolithic Engravings in the Déhus Passage Grave (Vale, Guernsey)

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Grimaud

Jersey³

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Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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In the course of making a digital record of a bow engraved on the lower face of a capstone in the Déhus passage grave, on Guernsey, several new motifs were observed, necessitating a reinterpretation of the composition as a whole.While the presence of a bow and two arrows is confirmed by photogrammetry and images obtained under directional lighting, the anthropomorphic figure can now be better defined, and compared to figures recently recognised in the Paris Basin. The presence of ‘hands’, however, cannot be confirmed, and these engravings may instead represent two horned animals in contact with two further motifs, one of which is certainly a throwing stick.

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Les Bagnoles à l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse). Aspects nouveaux dans le Néolithique moyen du midi de la France

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Middle Neolithic farming of open-air sites in SE France: new insights from archaeobotanical investigations of three wells found at Les Bagnoles (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Dépt. Vaucluse, France)

Middle Neolithic farming of open-air sites in SE France: new insights from archaeobotanical investigations of three wells found at Les Bagnoles (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Dépt. Vaucluse, France)

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)

The Recording and Representation of Neolithic Engravings in the Déhus Passage Grave (Vale, Guernsey)

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