Pratiques funéraires en territoire sédune du ive au Ier siècle av. j.-c

Funerals During the Second Iron age: A Newly Discovered Sepulchral Ensemble Reveals Practices in Western Switzerland (Pré-Du-Stand, Geneva)

“…Structure 01 is therefore considered a female grave, even though anthropological data cannot confirm it; alternatively, it simply represents the waste deposit of a pyre. In fact, the low weight observed in this structure could be the result of a selection of "parts" going into the final deposit, or this could be the waste or residue from another cremation [14][15][16][17][18].…”

“…Data from the Rhône-Alpes region have not been recently subjected to a synthesis but show that inhumation is the norm during the majority of the Iron Age [13][14][15][16]. To the North of Isère, small cremations pits dating to the final La Tène are mentioned at Mépieu [17]. This diffusion of cremation is not reflected in everyday life and material culture and remains limited to the world of the dead.…”

Tobias Hofstetter. Etude paléoanthropologique et analyse des rituels funéraires de deux sites laténiens valaisans : Randogne — Bluche et Sion — Parking des Remparts (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018, 240 pp., 171 figs, 6 tables, pbk, ISBN 978-1-78591-937-5)

“…According to Hofstetter (p. 2), this book comes within the purview of Philippe Curdy's overview of La Tène funerary rituals in the Sion area (Curdy et al, 2009). It supplements it with burials discovered over the last decade and complements it with an in-depth regional study of mortuary practices of the later Iron Age.…”