Gruissan (Aude). Saint-Martin-le-Bas

Duperron, Guillaume; Bigot, Fabrice; Doniga, Aline; Scrinzi, Maxime; Vaschalde, Christophe

doi:10.4000/archeomed.25005

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“…3 The excavation of this funerary occupation was carried out in collaboration with several members of the UMR 7268 ADES laboratory (Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé; Marseille). It began in 2015 with M. Perrin (Duperron et al 2015) and continued in 2016 with M. Cobos (Duperron et al 2016), then in 2019 and 2021 with E. Sperandio and G. Granier as part of a programmed excavation which is still ongoing (Duperron et al 2019;Duperron et al 2021).…”

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The funerary area of the 5th and 6th c. CE of Saint-Martin-le-Bas at Gruissan (Aude, France)

Granier,

Sperandio,

Duperron

2023

Death and the Societies of Late Antiquity

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Located near Narbonne, the coastal settlement of Saint-Martin-le-Bas in Gruissan was very active during Late Antiquity. Although the habitat of this period remains to be studied, a funerary area associated with this occupation is located on a small relief dominating the coastline. Its exhaustive excavation has revealed 39 funerary structures which are divided into 4 phases of occupation, from the end of the 3rd century to the 13th century. The first burials took place after the abandonment of the buildings of the Early Empire, at the end of the 3rd or in the 4th century. Then, probably in the 5th or 6th century, burials of an exceptional nature were set up in a funerary building. A desire to gather these tombs around the first sarcophagus seems to be at the origin of the development of the southern funerary area of the 5th and 6th centuries. The data provided by the study of this funerary complex contributes to the ongoing reflection on the status of this late antique site.

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