International audienceRich female tombs of the merovingian period sometimes contain an enigmatic object, most often defined as a chopper (hachoir) in France and as a tool used to grind textile fibers in Germany. It is in the form of a rectangular or sub-rectangular iron blade, extended at the back by two or three bristles intended to fix the handle. The discovery of seven new specimens in Alsace was an opportunity to return to the function of this object. The study was based on the inventory carried out by U. Koch for France, Germany and Switzerland, which was completed. The 105 objects inventoried made it possible to specify the funerary context and the morphological characteristics of this tool and to draw a first outline of its typology....
International audienceTextiles are perishable in most archaeological environments. One of the main p...
International audienceOf the few funerary discoveries dating to the late Iron Age in the Franche-Com...
ABSTRACT In 1951, a chance discovery revealed five vessels placed one inside the other, two polished...
Les résidus textiles archéologiques de l’Orient ancien sont rares. En Mésopotamie, la plupart des co...
International audienceThis study is based on an inventory of iron knives dated from the 8th to the 5...
Préservés le plus souvent sous une forme minéralisée, les textiles sont les témoins privilégiés de b...
International audienceThe tumulus X of Freyssinel which was excavated in the early 1930s by Dr. Char...
International audienceThis study, set on a corpus of burials mostly discovered in the 19th century i...
The deposit of cremated remains in a metal vessel is a funerary practice adopted by a limited number...
International audienceIn western Europe flax was cultivated from the 6th millennium, but the first e...
The fortuitous discovery of a "Hallstatt" sword from the beginning of the Early Iron Age at Sévérac-...
International audienceThe research on the Late Neolithic period in Northern France concerns, in part...
The tumulus X of Freyssinel which was excavated in the early 1930s by Dr. Charles Morel, enclosed tw...
International audienceTextiles are perishable in most archaeological environments. One of the main p...
International audienceOf the few funerary discoveries dating to the late Iron Age in the Franche-Com...
ABSTRACT In 1951, a chance discovery revealed five vessels placed one inside the other, two polished...
Les résidus textiles archéologiques de l’Orient ancien sont rares. En Mésopotamie, la plupart des co...
International audienceThis study is based on an inventory of iron knives dated from the 8th to the 5...
Préservés le plus souvent sous une forme minéralisée, les textiles sont les témoins privilégiés de b...
International audienceThe tumulus X of Freyssinel which was excavated in the early 1930s by Dr. Char...
International audienceThis study, set on a corpus of burials mostly discovered in the 19th century i...
The deposit of cremated remains in a metal vessel is a funerary practice adopted by a limited number...
International audienceIn western Europe flax was cultivated from the 6th millennium, but the first e...
The fortuitous discovery of a "Hallstatt" sword from the beginning of the Early Iron Age at Sévérac-...
International audienceThe research on the Late Neolithic period in Northern France concerns, in part...
The tumulus X of Freyssinel which was excavated in the early 1930s by Dr. Charles Morel, enclosed tw...
International audienceTextiles are perishable in most archaeological environments. One of the main p...
International audienceOf the few funerary discoveries dating to the late Iron Age in the Franche-Com...
ABSTRACT In 1951, a chance discovery revealed five vessels placed one inside the other, two polished...