As the Bronze Age came to its end and the Iron Age
began, flint ceased to be the key material for... more As the Bronze Age came to its end and the Iron Age began, flint ceased to be the key material for making tools, supplanted by iron for centuries to come. Flintstone lost its previous significance yet remained in use, contrary to the prevailing views. However, the extent of its use was fairly limited indeed. It was mostly exploited locally and for domestic use. Ethnographic research proves that it was still in use in the first decades of the 20th century.
The use of collective graves is one of the main features of the western European Late Neolithic. ... more The 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.
As the Bronze Age came to its end and the Iron Age
began, flint ceased to be the key material for... more As the Bronze Age came to its end and the Iron Age began, flint ceased to be the key material for making tools, supplanted by iron for centuries to come. Flintstone lost its previous significance yet remained in use, contrary to the prevailing views. However, the extent of its use was fairly limited indeed. It was mostly exploited locally and for domestic use. Ethnographic research proves that it was still in use in the first decades of the 20th century.
The use of collective graves is one of the main features of the western European Late Neolithic. ... more The 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.
En lien avec les préoccupations actuelles de notre société, le géoréférencement et la géolocalisa... more En lien avec les préoccupations actuelles de notre société, le géoréférencement et la géolocalisation des individus, des faits et des objets constituent aujourd’hui des variables incontournables et un paramètre principal de toute information. La production de données s’organise, s’accélère, investit de plus vastes échelles, mais toute donnée, de quelque discipline qu’elle relève, n’acquiert toute sa validité que si, d’une part elle a fait l’objet d’une démarche conceptuelle et sémantique, et d’autre part elle est rendue accessible, moissonnable et interopérable. L’intégration des données, leur enrichissement et leur indexation, leur croisement et leur appariement progressent à la mesure de diverses technologies qui tiennent une toute première place, dont celles de la géomatique. L’idée de journées d’études consacrées à la localisation et à la spatialisation s’articula peu à peu dans ce contexte et dans celui plus local du campus dijonnais. Où, d’une part le projet «Dictionnaire topographique »1 expérimentait un outil de géoréférencement des toponymes bourguignons. Où, d’autre part archéologues et historiens sollicitaient la Plateforme technologique géomatique Bourgogne Franche-Comté (GéoBFC) des Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon et Besançon pour des projets de recherche très divers mais en toute méconnaissance des expériences des uns et des autres. Alain Guerreau ayant accepté de faire part d’une expérience de géoréférencement sur une documentation bourguignonne et d‘une utilisation du fichier Fantoir2, l’impulsion était donnée. Nous décidions d’ouvrir largement l’atelier bourguignon, et nous souhaitions réunir les acteurs de démarches variées, doctorants, jeunes docteurs, ingénieurs, chercheurs et enseignants, et de mettre en présence résultats, méthodes et outils, et questionnements. Notre proposition reçut un bel accueil, archéologues, historiens, archivistes et géomaticiens se donnèrent rendez-vous à Dijon dans le cadre de deux journées organisées par l’UMR Artehis, la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon, le CTHS et sous l’égide du réseau ISA, Information Spatiale et Archéologie.
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began, flint ceased to be the key material for making tools,
supplanted by iron for centuries to come. Flintstone lost
its previous significance yet remained in use, contrary to
the prevailing views. However, the extent of its use was
fairly limited indeed. It was mostly exploited locally and for domestic use. Ethnographic research proves that it was
still in use in the first decades of the 20th century.
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.
began, flint ceased to be the key material for making tools,
supplanted by iron for centuries to come. Flintstone lost
its previous significance yet remained in use, contrary to
the prevailing views. However, the extent of its use was
fairly limited indeed. It was mostly exploited locally and for domestic use. Ethnographic research proves that it was
still in use in the first decades of the 20th century.
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.