9.2 | 2021
Grottes et dolmens
In the north-western Mediterranean basin, the end of the Neolithic period was marked by the emergence of numerous cultural groups and a multitude of geographical facies, characterised in funerary terms by the collective dimension of their burials. The latter were installed either in natural environments (caves, caves, shelters) or artificially constructed (dolmens, hypogees, etc.). If the geological substratum induces the installation of certain types of monuments, in areas with a high density of these two major types of tombs (Grands Causses, Provence, Cévennes, etc.), the environment and the geological context lends itself to each of these practices and cannot therefore constitute a single discriminating factor. Thus, several questions arise, on the anthropological, socio-cultural and structural levels. A round table bringing together the actors of research on these questions (archaeologists, specialists in megalithic architecture or the underground environment, biological anthropologists and specialists in artefacts) was held on 19 and 20 September 2019, at the MMSH in Aix-en-Provence, in a multi-disciplinary approach to discuss this funerary variability. This synthesis and first state of the art on the subject raises for the first time the question of the relationship between these different funerary contexts, which nevertheless present obvious common points. Until now, existing works have only dealt exclusively with one or the other type of grave.
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Préface [Full text]
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Mégalithes et grottes funéraires [Full text]Cohabitation ? Complémentarité ? Exclusion ? Une histoire complexe
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Multiple stages of funerals in the Late Chalcolithic cultures of Southern FranceDes grottes pour cacher les morts et des dolmens pour les sacraliser [Full text | translation | fr]Funérailles en plusieurs temps dans le Chalcolithique final du sud de la France – version abrégée
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Analyse comparée des trouvailles en cavités naturelles et monuments funérairesFlint blades and daggers from collective burials dated to the Final Neolithic and Chalcolithic in Southern France [Full text | translation | en]Comparative analysis of discoveries stemming from natural cavities and funerary monuments—abridged version
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Relations au Néolithique entre les grottes et les dolmens des Pyrénées occidentales (France) [Full text]Relationships between sepulchral caves and dolmens during the Neolithic in the Western Pyrenees (France)—abridged version [Full text | translation | en]
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Dolmens, grottes et hypogées en Provence [Full text]Bilan et interrogationsDolmens, sepulchral caves and hypogea in Provence [Full text | translation | en]Assessment and questions—abridged version
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Permanence et évolution des architectures et des pratiques funérairesThe collective burials of Provence in the long term [Full text | translation | en]Permanence and evolution of the architectures and the funerary practices—abridged version
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Bibliographie générale [Full text]