Flint mines from Jablines-Le haut château

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The flint mines of Jablines-Le haut château in the Seine-et-Marne department , Île-de-France region in France , were discovered in 1904 and explored in 1989 as part of an archaeological investigation of a TGV route west of the town.

The discovery site in the area of ​​"Le haut château" is one of the largest among the approximately 100 known Neolithic flint mines in Europe. The site near the Marne includes more than 3000 shafts from two to seven meters deep on 15 hectares (766 of which have been uncovered and 58 explored) and a number of pitches .

The C-14 dates show the operation of the mines between 4300 and 3500 BC. During the Chasséen or the Michelsberg culture . Finds of ceramic shards of the Cerny culture could point to an earlier phase of use, which could not be excavated.

The site has been protected under the name “Gisement archéologique du Haut Château” since 1989 as a monument historique .

literature

  • Françoise Bostyn, Yves Lanchon (ed.): Jablines – Le Haut Château (Seine-et-Marne). Une minière de silex au Néolithique (= Documents d'archeologie française. Volume 35). Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7351-0441-9 .
  • Françoise Bostyn, Yves Lanchon: The neolithic flint mine at Jablines "Le Haut Château" (Seine-et-Marne). In: Archaeologia Polona. Volume 33, 1995, ISSN  0066-5924 , pp. 297-310, ( online ).
  • Françoise Bostyn, Yves Lanchon: The neolithic flint mine at Jablines "Le Haut Château" (Seine-et-Marne). In: Antonia Ramos Millán (Ed.): Siliceous rocks and culture. Universidad de Granada, Granada 1997, ISBN 84-338-2390-6 , pp. 271-292.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisement du Château Archaeological skin in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 30.2 "  N , 2 ° 45 ′ 56.5"  E