La terre crue en contexte funéraire
Although raw-earth constructions during late prehistoric periods have been known and recognised in Near Eastern contexts for a long time, the scientific community became fully aware of the potential in Europe and more particularly in Southern France only at the beginning of the 2000s with the discov...
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| Format: | Online |
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| Sprog: | fransk |
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Presses universitaires de Provence
2026
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| Online adgang: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172707 |
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| Summary: | Although raw-earth constructions during late prehistoric periods have been known and recognised in Near Eastern contexts for a long time, the scientific community became fully aware of the potential in Europe and more particularly in Southern France only at the beginning of the 2000s with the discovery of Neolithic earthen buildings in Languedoc and Provence. Today and notably thanks to the achievements made by micromorphological studies, this material is a special area of study, being both a main component of builder cultures and an indicator of social and economic systems. The central theme of this round table, i.e. the use of raw earth in burial contexts was one chapter of this still poorly investigated field that crucially needs to be documented and to be better understood with regard to recent archaeological discoveries. To date this issue has in fact only been tackled in a very fragmented or anecdotal way as part of wider or related themes. The aim of this round table was to approach raw earth in burial contexts on a large scale, taking into account the complementarity of the various works and studies that should now be correlated. The discussions focused on several themes: the role and the different forms of raw earth in the burial space, its technical specificities as an architectural element or system, its status in funerary symbolism. This volume groups together seventeen contributions covering a large time span from the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age and touching on geographic areas in Europe (Italy, Spain, France, Crete, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta), the Levant (Syria) and the Caucasus (Azerbaijan). |
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