Premieres tentatives d'interpretation spatiale d'un site rural du Bronze final a Changis-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne)

摘要

The site of Changis-sur-Marne "les Petreaux" (Seine-et-Marne) has been the subject of extensive excavations since 1995. The site is located in the upstream zone of a wide meander of the lower Marne Valley, a few kilometres to the east ofMeaux. The plots already excavated cover about 40 hectares. The occupation of the valley here includes a large protohistoric funerary zone on the slope of the eroded former terrace. This overlooks about 500 ni of an alluvial layer descending gently to the Marne. The first 300 metres beyond the flood plain present a dwelling which developed at the end of the Early Neolithic, some twenty isolated burials, and protohistoric open agricultural establishments. The latter follow one another on the same spot for more than a millennium from the end of Late Bronze (RSFO) until the late La Tine period with no important interruptions but with varying degrees of density. For the Late Bronze Age, two focal points have been discovered. One is merely probable and the almost total lack of artefacts has not helped its study; the second, much better documented, has given rise to a search for markers of the slow evolution of this rural world.