Montélimar- le Gournier : historique des recherches et présentation d'un « grand site » chasséen en vallée du Rhône

Beeching, Alain; Brochier, Jacques Léopold; Cordier, Frédéric; Baudais, Dominique; Jallet, Frédéric; Treffort, Jean-Michel; Raynaud, Karine; Hénon, Philippe

doi:10.4000/books.alpara.3637

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“…In these regions, funeral sites are mostly represented by repurposed storage pits or pits dug like silos (39,40) or ritual silos (39), where archeologists found one or more individuals or isolated bones. The deposit of human remains in circular pits was widespread throughout the Carpathian Basin (41), the Rhine Valley (13,(42)(43)(44)(45), the Rhône Valley (46), southern France (14,(47)(48)(49), southwestern France (50), Emilia, Italy (51), and the coast of Catalonia (52,53). In these sites, while some skeletons are in a flexed position-a standard position for this period-others are placed in atypical positions or buried unconventionally, which does not conform to the overall pattern (17).…”

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“…These documented cases underscore the possible development of sacrificial practices in various regions and contexts. Particularly noteworthy are instances of homicidal ligature strangulation found in ritual sites during the Neolithic period (39,46). These sites often included storage pits used for burials, occasionally accompanied by sacrificial offerings (23), broken grindstones, and isolated human remains (39).…”

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A ritual murder shaped the Early and Middle Neolithic across Central and Southern Europe

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Tupikova

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In the Rhône Valley’s Middle Neolithic gathering site of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (France), the positioning of two females within a structure aligned with the solstices is atypical. Their placement (back and prone) under the overhang of a silo in front of a third in a central position suggests a ritualized form of homicidal ligature strangulation. The first occurrence dates back to the Mesolithic, and it is from the Early Neolithic of Central Europe that the practice expands, becoming a sacrificial rite associated with an agricultural context in the Middle Neolithic. Examining 20 cases from 14 sites spanning nearly two millennia from Eastern Europe to Catalonia reveals the evolution of this ritual murder practice.

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