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<< Our Photo Pages >> Enceinte de Champ-Durand - Ancient Village or Settlement in France in Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85)

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Multi-periodSite Name: Enceinte de Champ-Durand
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 7.044 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Pays de la Loire:Vendée (85) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Fontenay-le-Compte  Nearest Village: Nieul-sur-l'Autise
Latitude: 46.414458N  Longitude: 0.659053W
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Enceinte de Champ-Durand submitted by dt44 : Second picture of Enceinte Champ Durand (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Enceinte de Champ-Durand submitted by dt44 : Third and last picture of Enceinte Champ Durand in Nieuil sur l'Autize Best regards, Daniel Trouillard (Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Neolithic enclosure of Champ-Durand à Nieul-sur-l'Autise (Vendée) by Andy B on Wednesday, 20 February 2013
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The full publication (again a Google translation this one is a lot better)

North of the Marais Poitevin, the triple enclosure ditches interrupted Field-Durand Nieul-sur-l'Autise (Vendée) was discovered in 1971 by Maurice Marsac during an aerial survey and excavated by Roger and his team Joussaume between 1975 and 1988.

The area thus defined is approximately 250 m in diameter. Ditches are supported on the valley Maléons. Fifteen meters of altitude divide the edge of the plateau that supports pregnant, the bottom of the valley. This steep slope is a natural defense strengthened in its upper part by a single gap that the search has revealed.

A dozen interruptions cut three lines parallel ditches that are not mandatory-ment exactly contemporary. A grand entrance in "claw" has recently (2010) been demonstrated by satellite shots in the eastern part of the site.

In fact, the history of this place is quite long. The first pits were dug with a population of Neolithic Few contemporary richardien-Charente Maritime coast, which we call the Neolithic Seuil du Poitou, which is dated between 3400 and 3000 BC It continues by reoccupation, above the ramparts collapsed side, built with stones and sediment extracts ditches, Neolithic (Artenacien), then the Chalcolithic (Beaker). The site will be the last time partially occupied at the beginning of the Bronze Age when the ditches were already well filled.

The study of the filling of ditches and archaeological material they contained helped highlight an occupation behind walls of protection, with houses made of wood and mud. Field-Durand was also a center of slaughter cattle and salt production in small vases were found very stereotypical sometimes more than a hundred miles away, evidence of long-distance trade. These exchanges were also recognized through the stone industry that uses flint particularly from Saintonge but also the edges of the Loire.

The enclosure, which evolved during the Neolithic, before being reoccupied later, was also a center of worship and a place of deposition of human bodies in niches dug into the walls of the ditches. If all this indicates a well-organized society, nothing allows us to move it was very hierarchical around a leader.

JOUSSAUME (R.) dir., L'enceinte néolithique de Champ-Durand à Nieul-sur-l'Autise (Vendée), Mémoire n° XLIV, 2012, 685 p. Format 21 x 29,7 - Couverture couleur - Photographies couleurs et N&B - Dessins, plans - Bibliographie. Poids : entre 3 et 5 kg.
ISBN 979-10-90534-08-7
Prix : 35,00 €

http://www.chauvigny-patrimoine.fr/Editions/fiche_archeologie.php?id=MEM044
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New paper: Adornments and ornaments found at the Neolithic enclosure of Champ-Durand by Andy B on Wednesday, 20 February 2013
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Pièces d’ornement ou de parure attribuées au Néolithique récent – Exemples provenant de l’enceinte de Champ-Durand, à Nieul-sur-l’Autise (Vendée), et du monument mégalithique du Planti, à Availles-sur-Chizé (Deux-Sèvres)
by Luc Laporte

Approximate English translation of summary from Google (needs rewording rather a lot!)

Characterization of the Late Neolithic ornament in the center-west of France is not easy. Most of these small objects were collected in mid sepulchral, ​​where the search often involves a systematic screening of the land. Multiple reuse in collective graves built in the Middle Neolithic, throughout the Neolithic and final assignment hinder However unfailing funerary associated with them. Contexts habitat are rarely of much help, as well as furniture from the filling of these large ditches pregnant multiply here from the Neolithic.

The pieces of jewelery from such contexts are extremely minority view of the number of deposits or domestic waste of any kind so collected. They are also compared with the number of pieces of jewelery from tombs. Resulting from operating relatively short chains, the intrinsic value of identity in the context of production, more often hardly noticeable at first on this type of parts. Such a finding also reveals the lack of attention by many of our colleagues what they consider as a little accessory.

The body adornments, displayed for all to see as the garment which they contribute, were yet explicit markers of identity that is often sought to characterize so many other ways. To better take into account all these parameters, it seemed useful to add to the study of a few pieces of jewelery collected in the enclosure trenched Champ-Durand, Nieul-sur-l'Autise in Vendée, the study unpublished those from the excavation, also quite recently, a megalithic monument on the other side of the Marais Poitevin, in Availles-sur-Chizé in Deux-Sèvres. It seems that was reused during the Neolithic.

http://www.academia.edu/2565871/NEW_01_2013_-_Pieces_dornement_ou_de_parure_attribuees_au_Neolithique_recent_-_Exemples_provenant_de_lenceinte_de_Champ-Durand_a_Nieul-sur-lAutise_Vendee_et_du_monument_megalithique_du_Planti_a_Availles-sur-Chize_Deux-Sevres_
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