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Title

Architectures neolithiques de l'ile d'Yeu (Vendee) / edited by Audrey Blanchard, Serge Cassen, Jean-Noel Guyodo.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress Publications, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• Blanchard Audrey,
• Cassen Serge,
• Guyodo Jean-Noel,

Description

vi 283 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 29 cm

Summary

Architectures néolithiques de l?île d?Yeu (Vendée) gathers documentation, unpublished material and the principal results of studies, prospections, excavations and surveys carried out on domestic settlements, funeral monuments, quarries and symbolic sites. Situated off the Atlantic coast of the Vendée (France), the Isle of Yeu has been occupied since Prehistory. Domestic, industrial, funerary or symbolic sites dating from the Neolithic are numerous. Their state of conservation is exceptional, with much of the stone-built architecture preserved above ground. This is notably so for the walled enclosures of the fourth millennium BC, which have been the subject of several research programs since 2010.00The initial chapters propose an inventory of the mineral resources as well as the main forms of exploitation, supply strategies and uses of stones. The main part of the volume is dedicated to the excavation of the two principal walled enclosures dating from the late Neolithic, the Pointe de la Tranche and Ker Daniaud. The emphasis is on the architecture of these promontory forts that directly open to the Ocean but whose occupation seems not to have been permanent. Finally, the surveys (plan, photogrammetry, microtopography) and the digital modelling of the megalithic burials of the Tabernaudes, the Plauche a Puare and the Petits Fradets allow a three-dimensional reconstruction of Neolithic funerary architectures. For the rocks marked by cupules, the current concentration of which is one of the most important (more than 120 sites), a first analysis of the corpus of signs is proposed, although their dating remains uncertain.

Subject

• Architecture, Prehistoric > Yeu Island
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Vendée
• Neolithic period > Vendée
• Antiquities, Prehistoric
• Architecture, Prehistoric
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Neolithic period
• Vendée (France) > Antiquities
• Vendée (France) > Antiquities, Prehistoric

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-283)

ISBN

• 1789695791
• 9781789695793
• 9781789695809 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

60002454841

OCLC

• on1286311433
• 1286311433

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries