L'occupation funéraire des monuments mégalithiques pendant le haut Moyen-Age. Modalités et essai d'interprétation
Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT The presence of evidence later than the Neolithic period on sites of megalithic collective tombs has often been shown. In particular, the presence of graves or important cemeteries from early Middle Age, seems not to be anecdotal. The recent works have often been about funerary gestures which appeared at the end of the history or the use of the collective tombs, which can be a matter of putting away, emptying, blocking up or even using again. However, the phenomenons of fune rary reoccupation" stay, until now, a rather undeveloped side of their history. The authors have tried to point out the modes of these reoccupa- tions at early Middle Age from the archeolog i cal datas ; they have also tried to answer to the following questions : is the attaction of these monuments only a matter of chance, or due to particularities of the site they have been built on, or to their original funerary function, or their symbolic value ? What interpretation is to give to the early Middle Age texts which could evoke the megalithic stones ?
Institution: La Rochelle Université
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3083854797