Une fosse du Bronze final IIb dans le Val d’Orléans à Sandillon (Loiret) : données archéologiques et contexte environnemental

• Main Authors: Hélène Froquet, Cyril Castanet, Stéphane Joly, Bénédicte Pradat
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Fédération pour l'Edition de la Revue Archéologique du Centre de la France 2008-06-01
• Series: Revue Archéologique du Centre de la France
• Subjects: carpology; domestic pottery; geomorphology; Late Bronze Age IIb; pit
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/racf/594

An archaeological diagnostic carried out in 2004 at Sandillon (Loiret) enabled the discovery of a final Bronze Age IIb occupation in the alluvial Loire valley. There are few structures but one pit is noteworthy for a ceramic collection, exceptional in its abundance, its preservation and the presence of previously unknown forms in the Centre region. This ceramic corpus, dated by radiocarbon, henceforth provides a reliable standard for the region. Moreover, these relics could be set in their immediate environment thanks to a geomorphological study and to the analysis of carpological remains contained in the pit. So, the crossing of data allows us to attempt an environmental paleolithic approach to an occupation in a freshwater context and to clarify the relationship between man and his environment in this chronological period.