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The necropolis of Ensisheim/Reguisheimerfeld (Haut-Rhin) : illustration of the Late Bronze Age funerary practices in Alsace

2007

In 2000, the preventive excavation of the Ensisheim/Reguisheimerfeld site (Haut-Rhin), carried out by the ANTEA SARL company, brought to light 87 funerary structures belonging to a cremation necropolis dating from the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (around 1350-1050 BC). Following study of the material, 3 successive chronological phases and a possible cultural "faciès" centred on the bend in the Rhine at Basel, Switzerland, were distinguished. The archaeo-anthropological study of the burnt bones revealed, among other things, the existence of a large number of multiple graves and of socially immature members of the society, phenomena rarely observed in the region. The analysis of the inter…

funerary practiceschildren's graves[ SHS.HIST ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Historypratiques funérairesmétalsépultures d'immaturesLate Bronze Agearchaeo-thanatologyceramictypo-chronologie[ OTHER ] domain_otherAlsace[OTHER]domain_otheranthropologiecrémation[SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History[OTHER] domain_othermultiple gravestypo-chronologyanthropologysépultures multiplesarchéo-thanatologieBronze final[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/Historycéramique
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