Neolithic France

Archaeology ^ | May/June 2005 | Jennifer Pinkowski

[SunkenCiv]

Recently, in one called Prissé-la-Charrière (after the village it is near), archaeologists Roger Joussaume, Luc Laporte, and Chris Scarre found a communal sepulcher that no one had entered for 6,000 years, giving them a view of the burial practices of a people about whom little is known except that they were early farmers... Inside were the disarticulated remains of at least seven people, as well as two intact ceramic vessels. It was the third burial chamber they had found in the 300-foot-long mound. The other two held the partial remains of at least 11 more people... For the past 10 field seasons the British-French team has steadily stripped back the turf that covered the mound to reveal the buried structures. "One of the most surprising things is how complex it all is: a honeycomb of walls, cairns, and burial chambers," says Scarre. The mound is also evidence of a new way of thinking about the world. Monumental architecture such as burial mounds, standing stones, and stone rows appear shortly after the transition from hunting and gathering to farming.

[SunkenCiv]

Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't.

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[SunkenCiv]

But I'm sure there's no connection with precolumbian structures. ;')

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[FastCoyote]

Wow blam, too cool. We are seeing the concept of "civilizd" man pushed further back. Given the 400 ft sea level rise ( covering where early cities would have been logically built), you can only wonder.

[blam]

"Given the 400 ft sea level rise ( covering where early cities would have been logically built), you can only wonder."

Many believe it was closer to 500 ft.

[SunkenCiv]

And even more, as much as 800 feet, in the case of the Bering land bridge. Just depends on the locations of the ice, isostatic rebound, rotation rate of the Earth... :')

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