Trois structures funéraires collectives dans la moyenne vallée de l'Oise

Billand, Ghislaine; Goff, Isabelle Le; Malrain, François; Pinard, Estelle

doi:10.3406/pica.1995.1834

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“…It is perhaps indeed this technique that made so-called "buried" tombs so widespread, as these were built at the bottom of pits and could therefore be flooded: the so-called "covered alignments", whether megalithic or made of wood (e.g. Gall et al, 1983;Billand et al, 1995) or dry stones (Peek, 1975: 78 ff. ), or the "totenhütten", of similar construction although different in form (Masset, 1995), etc.…”

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Megalithic biographies. From partial closures to total closures and from single sealing to double sealing

Jagu¹,

Masset²

2022

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In five megalithic monuments in the Paris Basin, major structural rearrangements occurred from the Neolithic, involving displacements and removals of orthostats. The use of these monuments as tombs was periodically interrupted, possibly -but not necessarily -in conjunction with deposits of generally thin "underlayers", though at times these could also be relatively thick. Primary or secondary burials could co-occur or sometimes follow each other, in relation to these "underlayers". At times, an entire burial layer was almost completely eliminated. At two of these sites, evidence shows that heavy "cover slabs" were put in place only after burials had ceased, as a gesture of permanent closure: prior to their installation, only a lightweight, water-tight cover had been present. Although permanently closed, these megalithic structures continued to be visited for some time until they were sealed again, this time with a clearly destructive intention associated with their final abandon.

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Megalithic biographies. From partial closures to total closures and from single sealing to double sealing

Jagu¹,

Masset²

2022

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“…In the Paris Basin, at least five collective graves shared striking similarities with La Truie Pendue. Dated to the transition between the 4th and the 3rd millennium B.C., a gallery grave discovered in Lacroix Saint-Ouen (Oise) yielded numerous indications of intense heating (Le Goff et al 1995Goff et al , 2002Billand et al 1995aBilland et al , 1995bGuillot et al 1996;Le Goff 1998). The sediment was reddened, temperatures of about 500-850°C turned architectural limestone slabs into whitewash, and charcoal remains were discovered in a large area within the deposit (Masset 2002).…”

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The role of fire within Neolithic collective burials: Spatial analyses of cremains from the site of La Truie Pendue, France

Becdelièvre

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Saligny

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Journal of Field Archaeology

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International audienceThe use of collective graves is one of the main features of the western European Late Neolithic. A single gravesite received the successive deposition of dozens or sometimes hundreds of individuals. While cremations or even full-fired inhumation layers are often found within these funerary deposits, the actual role of fire is still poorly understood. Recently discovered within the important archaeological complex of Passy (Yonne, France), the burned collective grave of La Truie-Pendue provides an outstanding case study to examine the use of fire within Neolithic funerary rites. In this study, we develop a new contextual approach to bone alterations in order to reconstruct the original circumstances of combustion and to examine cultural motivations for the use of fire. Results of spatial statistical analyses indicate that the fire event was the first step of a procedure that sealed the grave, closed the access to the dead and signaled the end of the grave's history. Similar sealing procedures were usual elsewhere during the Late Neolithic. Finally, this study demonstrates the value of using GIS as a tool to optimize taphonomic analyses of widely fragmented and commingled skeletal assemblages

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“…Ceux-ci vont mettre en place des protocoles répondant aux exigences disciplinaires et aux contraintes de temps inhérentes à l'archéologie préventive. Des ensembles vast es ou complexes comme une sépulture collet ive, un charnier de la pest e, une nécropole de mille tombes et plus, un bûcher, seront ainsi fouillés rapidement et sans complexe grâce à des méthodes d'enregist rement adaptées (Guillon, 1990 ;Guy, Blaizot, 1992 ;Billand et al, 1995 ;Guillot, Guy, 1996 ;Richier, 2011 ;Staniaszek, 1996). À compter de cette époque, il n'est plus envisageable d'exhumer des squelettes humains sans les impliquer dans les st ratégies de fouilles⁶.…”

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Anthropologie biologique et archéologie : regards croisés ?

Guy¹,

Richier²

2012

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L’anthropologie physique est devenue anthropologie biologique à la faveur d’une histoire chaotique. Durant le années 1970-1980, la discipline connaît un profond renouvellement de ses problématiques. Celles-ci s’imposeront à la faveur d’une formation universitaire très orientée « terrain » et grâce au développement de l’archéologie préventive. Aujourd’hui, l’anthropologie biologique est une discipline très largement reconnue et développée au sein de l’Inrap. L’archéothanatologie, dernière-née dans ce cheminement disciplinaire, naturalise l’anthropologie biologique au contact d’une discipline des sciences humaines et sociales, l’archéologie. Pourra-t-elle survivre aux derniers découpages disciplinaires entrepris par le CNRS ?

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Trois structures funéraires collectives dans la moyenne vallée de l'Oise

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Megalithic biographies. From partial closures to total closures and from single sealing to double sealing

Megalithic biographies. From partial closures to total closures and from single sealing to double sealing

The role of fire within Neolithic collective burials: Spatial analyses of cremains from the site of La Truie Pendue, France

Anthropologie biologique et archéologie : regards croisés ?

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