2023-08-28 06:33:00
Traces of a perennial habitat were unearthed this summer in the vast Neolithic site of the Marais de Saint-Gond (Marne, north-eastern France), which now offers an exceptionally complete picture of its social organization, 150 years following the discovery of the first flints.
“It’s the last piece of the puzzle that we were missing,” explains Rémi Martineau, researcher at the French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), who located the village with his team.
In the Marais de Saint-Gond region, 15 large flint mines (quarries) have already been identified over 450 hectares, as well as 135 hypogea – collective underground funerary constructions.
Five megalithic covered walkways, ten ax polishers and fields cultivated by burning have also been located since the discovery of the first flints a century and a half ago.
This new discovery makes it possible to take a step forward in the understanding of “the economic, societal and territorial organization of the Neolithic”, continues the archaeologist, according to whom there is “no equivalent” of such a set in Europe.
The discovery of this recent Neolithic village (-3500/-3000), took place in the middle of summer, when a ditch for the installation of a palisade was precisely identified in Val-des-Marais, in the south of the Marne.
In the followingmath, a first apse building with two naves, attached to the interior of the enclosure, once morest a large rubbish pit 20 m in diameter, was cleared, as well as wells outside.
Settled, this population of farmers and breeders settled near the water, above the water table.
“The site was fully structured, explains Rémi Martineau. The foundations of our society are already there. »
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