La crémation parmi les pratiques funéraires du Néolithique récent-final en France Méthodes d’étude et analyse de sites
The use of the common burials becomes widespread during the Late Neolithic: the rests of several individuals are deposited at the same place. In some cases, cremation is combined with the corpse processing. Only about fifty graves for more than a thousand sites are concerned. Would this marginal pra...
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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/bmsap/5013 |
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| Summary: | The use of the common burials becomes widespread during the Late Neolithic: the rests of several individuals are deposited at the same place. In some cases, cremation is combined with the corpse processing. Only about fifty graves for more than a thousand sites are concerned. Would this marginal practice be the expression of a corpse processing that would have been gradually propagated or even more that of a local practice? A critical survey of the methods which proposed to determine the temperature of combustion or the state of the bone at the time of the firing shows the fragility of the criteria that are retained or their inadequacy to study the rests extracted from common burial. That is why, other methods were chosen to restore the functioning of five funeral sites, among which only three are presented in this article. These methods combine usual tools of the analysis of common burials with those used to study the secondary cremated deposits. Various types of funeral gestures were identified within the corpus of the common burials with cremation(s) listed on the French territory.A spatial projection on the scale of France is proposed. The examination of the distribution made it possible to detect groups of burials which are characterized by the mode of use of the cremation they define. These groups are coherent from a geographical point of view, they compose distinct sets, which do not interpenetrate. Clearly distinguished from the human groups identified by the material culture, they highlight the question of the diffusion mode of the funerary practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-5469 |