The ceramic of Middle Neolithic II between the valleys of the Yonne and the Saône, between 4300 and 3400 BC

2010

The territory between the valleys of the Yonne and the Saône has always been a zone of cultural meeting in particular during the middle Neolithic II, between 4300 and 3400 BC. Since the 1970's, the culture of the Néolithique moyen bourguignon (N.M.B.) has been recognized in this region and its main characteristics were defined during a round table discussion organized in Beffia in 1984 (Pétrequin and Gallay 1984). From criteria based essentially on the ceramic typology, the N.M.B. is then mainly confined within the regions of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.Since 1984, the zone of there culture has been expended in particular to the South and Southwest. Multiple deposits have been discovered sin…