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The standing of the Southern Côte-d’Or in the evolution of the early Iron Age funeral practices in Burgundy and Franche-Comté

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This work is a synthesis of tumuli graves in Burgundy and Franche-Comté from Hallstatt C to La Tene B periods. The objective is to characterize the funeral assemblages in Southern Côte-d’Or as well as the influences and the tendencies that went through this area during the early Iron Age. A set of comparisons shows the particularities of the Southern Côte-d’Or at several levels: the recruitment of the populations, the position and orientation of the deceased, the architecture of the graves and their internal arrangements, the typology and positions of the personals items, the nature and locations of the deposits. These various leads allow reconstituting costumes and mortuary practices, as well as their evolution, for each area of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. These elements highlight a strong Jura influence during the Hallstatt D1 and D2. A bigger influence from the west side, as well as a relative unity in the Côte-d’Or can be seen during the Hallstatt D3 and the beginning of La Tene A. The construction of burial mounds and their management through time lead to additional clues regarding their existence as long-lasting strong funeral poles in Southern Côte-d’Or. These appear bound to the junction between the east and western streams. The place of those poles in the territories of the southern Côte-d’Or’s communities and the relationship between settlements and tumuli remains to be defined.