Véraza group
The Véraza group is a western European cultural group of the late Neolithic , which spread between 3500 and 2000 BC. Chr. In Catalonia and in the southern French region of Occitania had established.
etymology
The eponymous site of the Véraza group is the Lavalet caves near Véraza in the Aude department , excavated by Jean Guilaine.
Megalithic buildings
The people of the Véraza group have built numerous megalithic tombs in their settlement area . The dolmen Lo Morrel dos Fados near Pépieux and the necropolis of La Clape , both in the Aude department, are particularly noteworthy .
Settlements
Ceramics from the Véraza group come from an Abri near Berguedá.
In 2008, INRAP archaeologists unearthed remains of buildings belonging to the Véraza group near Montredon near Carcassonne .
literature
- Jean Guilaine (ed.), Le Groupe de Véraza et la fin des temps néolithiques dans le sud de la France et la Catalogne. Paris, Éditions du CNRS 1980. ISBN 2222027160 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin, A .: El grupo de Veraza en Cataluña . In: XIV Congreso Nacional de Arqueología . Vitoria 1977, p. 341-354 . , Zaragoza: Secretaría General de los Congresos Arqueológicos Nacionales: Universidad de Zaragoza, Seminario de Arqueología
- ^ Matthias Willing, The Véraza Culture: A "forgotten" megalithic culture in southern France. Ancient World 2011/1, 42
- ↑ Martín Cólliga, Araceli, El grupo de Veraza en el Berguedá, Cypsela 1, 1976, 69-73, https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Cypsela/article/view/120185/236539