Les Pétreaux
The Les Pétreaux site is located in Changis-sur-Marne in the Marne Valley in the Seine-et-Marne department in France .
Between 1996 and 1998 a small Neolithic settlement consisting of two houses was excavated in a gravel pit . Despite its mediocre preservation, the site in the Marnebogen provided information about the region's first farmers. The finds include fauna remains , flint - and bone artifacts, grinding tools made of sandstone and pottery. The material can be dated to the final phase of ribbon ceramics , which, according to current knowledge, was the earliest Neolithic culture in the Paris Basin .
From 1995 to 2005 a team led by Françoise Lafage discovered more than 5000 archaeological structures in the alluvial plain near the quarry of Cemex. The site in the lower Marne Valley, which is unique due to its continuous expansion of around 70 hectares, was excavated in 30 campaigns. The excavations showed, among other things, a number of successive Middle and Late Bronze Age farms, which can be associated with the two cores of the necropolis about 250 m away . The excavation has revealed demarcated sites that show the development of a rural community over several millennia and the connection between the habitat and its necropolis.
literature
- Jean-Gabriel Pariat: Les tombes néolithiques de Changis-sur-Marne 'Les Pétreaux' (Seine-et-Marne) dans le contexte régional du Bassin parisien In: Gallia Prihistoire 56 ISSN 0016-4127 2016 pp. 93–125
- Françoise Lafage et al .: Changis-sur-Marne "les Pétreaux": trois siècles d'évolution d'établissements ruraux de la fin du Bronze final au début du premier Âge du Fer In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française Année 2007 vol. 104 No 2 pp. 307-341
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Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 1.3 ″ N , 3 ° 0 ′ 19.6 ″ E