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La fin du Néolithique dans le sud-est de la France. Concepts techniques, culturels et chronologiques de 1954 à 2004

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The mediterranean France final Neolithic, between the end of Middle Neolithic Chasséen (3700-3500 Cal BC) and the end of the transitional period to the early Bronze Age, with the barbed Wire groups (1900-1800 Cal BC), is a complex period marked by the definition of almost about fifteen cultural groups and many of geographical facies and chronological phases. The chronological and technical concepts used are not less complex and varied according to researchers (Recent Neolithic or late Middle Neolithic or Final Neolithic 1, Final Neolithic and Copper Age or only Final Neolithic, and Copper Age-early Bronze Age...). If the Rhone constituted only seldom a real border during the Neolithic, it is remarkable that it constituted one of them, for the archaeologists, during the fifty last years with a terminology, cultural definitions and chronological tables distinct on both sides from the river. Obviously, it results from it inconsistencies and fundamental incomprehension which do not contribute to the realization of a common chronological and cultural table. However this chronological, cultural and geographical framework, at the same time conceptual and terminological, is necessary to the many specialized studies now led on all data of the Final Neolithic. Thanks to a glance behind over the fifty last years of research, the origin of the differences appeared within the conceptual frameworks on two banks of the Rhone can be specified and followed. By taking again the data of Provence, it is also possible to propose a new table of general periodisation which can be put in parallel with that of Languedoc and must allow to better understand the evolutions and the interactions of two Rhone banks of the Mediterranean France in the Final Neolithic.