The Font de la Vie grave is that of an adult, most probably a man, who died in the mid 5th century B.C. and was burnt on an ustrinum. It includes a burial pit into which were indiscriminately thrown a small part of the funeral pyre containing calcined bones and crushed remains of the pyre, as well as a smaller heap of what may have been an offering. Since the information concerning Eastern Languedoc between the early 5th century and the early 2nd century B. C. is rather sparse, this discover is indeed an important landmark that enables us to measure the evolution of funeral rites in this area. The variety of ways the bodies have been treated in the 8th and 7th centuries B. C. in the barrow system disappears in the 6th century, giving way to...
A IInd Century A.D. Cremation Grave in Haussy (Nord). In 1991, during the digging of ditches along ...
International audienceGraves dating from the Middle Iron Age in the Languedocian plains remain littl...
The grave of Boé (Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine) should be regarded as one of the most important chiefly...
International audienceThe Font de la Vie grave is that of an adult, most probably a man, who died in...
Medieval cemeteries and funeral habits in Languedoc : the contribution of Archeology. If during cen...
International audienceRecent work conducted on ancient funerary ensembles of the Mediterranean basin...
National audienceThis study gives importance to the differences, in the field of funerary, between t...
International audienceThe 13th century was a time of evolution in the conception of the afterlife, i...
Discovered at the beginning of the Seventies, the incineration tomb at Fontvieille (Vareilles, Creus...
International audienceIn Nubia, funerary archaeology has been a major source of information for the ...
ABSTRACT In 1996 a preventive archaeological project allowed the excavation, at least in part, of a ...
Funeral objects from a first Iron Age tomb at the Les Faïsses locality, in Mourèze (Hérault). Althou...
International audienceThis seventh century BC tomb was discovered in 1993, in Saint- Martin-of-Colom...
International audienceDiscovered by chance at the western end of the oppidum, this secondary cremati...
Roman and Christian mortuary practices are widely explored by historians and archaeologists in Weste...
A IInd Century A.D. Cremation Grave in Haussy (Nord). In 1991, during the digging of ditches along ...
International audienceGraves dating from the Middle Iron Age in the Languedocian plains remain littl...
The grave of Boé (Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine) should be regarded as one of the most important chiefly...
International audienceThe Font de la Vie grave is that of an adult, most probably a man, who died in...
Medieval cemeteries and funeral habits in Languedoc : the contribution of Archeology. If during cen...
International audienceRecent work conducted on ancient funerary ensembles of the Mediterranean basin...
National audienceThis study gives importance to the differences, in the field of funerary, between t...
International audienceThe 13th century was a time of evolution in the conception of the afterlife, i...
Discovered at the beginning of the Seventies, the incineration tomb at Fontvieille (Vareilles, Creus...
International audienceIn Nubia, funerary archaeology has been a major source of information for the ...
ABSTRACT In 1996 a preventive archaeological project allowed the excavation, at least in part, of a ...
Funeral objects from a first Iron Age tomb at the Les Faïsses locality, in Mourèze (Hérault). Althou...
International audienceThis seventh century BC tomb was discovered in 1993, in Saint- Martin-of-Colom...
International audienceDiscovered by chance at the western end of the oppidum, this secondary cremati...
Roman and Christian mortuary practices are widely explored by historians and archaeologists in Weste...
A IInd Century A.D. Cremation Grave in Haussy (Nord). In 1991, during the digging of ditches along ...
International audienceGraves dating from the Middle Iron Age in the Languedocian plains remain littl...
The grave of Boé (Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine) should be regarded as one of the most important chiefly...