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H 290 x W 205 mm

294 pages

196 figures, 29 tables (colour throughout)

French text

Published Dec 2021

Archaeopress Archaeology

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Paperback: 9781789695793

Digital: 9781789695809

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Keywords
domestic architecture; funeral architecture; walled enclosure; megalithism; quarry

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This volume gathers documentation, unpublished material and the principal results of studies, prospections, excavations and surveys carried out on domestic settlements, funeral monuments, quarries and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 on the Isle of Yeu Situated off the Atlantic coast of the Vend??e (France).

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Contents

Chapitre 1 : L?????le d'Yeu ;
1. Contexte naturel (Geoffrey Lebl??) ;
2. Contexte arch??ologique (Marie-Paule Jung) ;

Chapitre 2 : L???environnement min??ral et son exploitation (Jean-No??l Guyodo, avec la collaboration d???Emmanuel Mens et d???Alexandre Polinski) ;
1. Mat??riaux ;
2. Strat??gies d???approvisionnement constat??es ;

Chapitre 3 : Architectures domestiques : les ??perons barr??s (Audrey Blanchard) ;
1. La pointe de la Tranche ;
2. Ker Daniaud ;
3. Synth??se ;
4. Conclusion ;

Chapitre 4 : Signes grav??s et architectures fun??raires monumentales ;
1. Les pierres ?? cupules de l?????le d???Yeu (Serge Cassen, Valentin Grimaud, Cl??mence Gabilleau, Annabelle Chauviteau) ;
2. Trois tombes monumentales n??olithiques ?? l?????le d???Yeu (Serge Cassen, Valentin Grimaud, Annabelle Chauviteau, Thomas Vigneau) ;

Conclusion (Audrey Blanchard) ;

Remerciements ;
Liste des pierres ?? cupules, ??le d???Yeu (Vend??e) ;
Bibliographie

About the Author

Audrey Blanchard obtained her doctorate from the University of Rennes 1, and is an associate member of UMR 6566, CReAAH (LARA laboratory). A specialist in lithic and ceramic production, her research focuses mainly on coastal and island settlements and Neolithic domestic architecture ;

Serge Cassen obtained his doctorate in Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory in 1986 from the University of Paris-Sorbonne under the supervision of G. Bailloud, his thesis focusing on Neolithic societies of the 4th millennium BC between Loire and Gironde. Upon joining the CNRS in 1991, he devoted himself to the study of the funerary and other megalithic monuments of western France, in particular through their ancient engravings and through their social valorisation. ;

Jean-No??l Guyodo is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Nantes and director of the LARA laboratory (UMR6566 CReAAH). A specialist in lithic technology and stone architecture, he has directed numerous excavations on Neolithic settlement sites in western France. His research focuses more broadly on the first agro-pastoral societies on the Atlantic coast of Europe.

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Audrey Blanchard est arch??ologue, docteur de l???Universit?? de Rennes 1, associ??e ?? l???UMR6566 CReAAH (laboratoire LARA). Sp??cialiste des productions lithiques et c??ramiques, ses recherches portent principalement sur l???habitat, les implantations littorales et insulaires et l???architecture domestique n??olithique ;

Serge Cassen a obtenu en 1986 un doctorat en Anthropologie, Ethnologie et Pr??histoire ?? l???Universit?? de Paris-Sorbonne sous la direction de G. Bailloud, th??se portant sur les soci??t??s n??olithiques du IVe mill??naire av. n??. entre Loire et Gironde. Entr?? au CNRS en 1991, il s???est consacr?? ?? l?????tude de la monumentalit?? fun??raire et symbolique de l???ouest de la France, notamment ?? travers les repr??sentations grav??es et les objets socialement valoris??s. ;

Jean-No??l Guyodo est ma??tre de conf??rences en Pr??histoire ?? l???Universit?? de Nantes et directeur du laboratoire LARA (UMR6566 CReAAH). Sp??cialiste de technologique lithique et d???architectures en pierre, il a dirig?? de nombreuses fouilles sur des sites d???habitat n??olithiques de l???Ouest de la France. Ses recherches portent plus largement sur les premi??res soci??t??s agro-pastorales de la fa??ade atlantique de l???Europe.