Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancien

The site of « La Croix de Choisy » in Maurecourt (Yvelines department) included 24 pits. The archaeological goods and 14C dating constitute a coherent unity enabling to determine that the occupation of the site dates back to a recent phase of the Blicquy – Villeneuve-Saint-Germain group. The pits ar...

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Main Authors: Marie-France Dietsch-Sellami, Stéphane Durand, Pascal Verdin
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 2008-12-01
Series:Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nda/604
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spelling doaj-afc6dc234181475abc86028b5f0299f32020-11-25T01:17:57ZfraEditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'HommeLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie0242-77022425-19412008-12-01114283210.4000/nda.604Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancienMarie-France Dietsch-SellamiStéphane DurandPascal VerdinThe site of « La Croix de Choisy » in Maurecourt (Yvelines department) included 24 pits. The archaeological goods and 14C dating constitute a coherent unity enabling to determine that the occupation of the site dates back to a recent phase of the Blicquy – Villeneuve-Saint-Germain group. The pits are mainly detritic, and four of them have been described as “specific” as far as their morphology and filling properties are concerned. Starting from the work hypothesis saying that these “specific” pits would have been used for the treatment of textile plants, the analysis of phytoliths and seeds was carried out, and showed the presence of stinging nettle and flax; flax being so far unknown during the Early Neolithic period in Northern France. Retting, one of the phases of the treatment of these plants, can be noticed in these “specific” pits thanks to the presence of humidity indicators such as sponge spicules and charophytes gyrogonite; the first being associated to stinging nettle’s phytoliths. The rarity of carpological characteristics of the culture of flax during the Neolithic period in Northern France and their strict association with archaeological evidence of its treatment as a textile plant entices us to allude to the hypothesis of a specialisation of some villages in the transformation of this plant. The studies of the traceology of bone tools and of the lithics seem to meet this assumption.http://journals.openedition.org/nda/604
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author Marie-France Dietsch-Sellami
Stéphane Durand
Pascal Verdin
spellingShingle Marie-France Dietsch-Sellami
Stéphane Durand
Pascal Verdin
Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancien
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie
author_facet Marie-France Dietsch-Sellami
Stéphane Durand
Pascal Verdin
author_sort Marie-France Dietsch-Sellami
title Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancien
title_short Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancien
title_full Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancien
title_fullStr Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancien
title_full_unstemmed Traitement des plantes textiles à Maurecourt « la Croix de Choisy » (Yvelines) au Néolithique ancien
title_sort traitement des plantes textiles à maurecourt « la croix de choisy » (yvelines) au néolithique ancien
publisher Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
series Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie
issn 0242-7702
2425-1941
publishDate 2008-12-01
description The site of « La Croix de Choisy » in Maurecourt (Yvelines department) included 24 pits. The archaeological goods and 14C dating constitute a coherent unity enabling to determine that the occupation of the site dates back to a recent phase of the Blicquy – Villeneuve-Saint-Germain group. The pits are mainly detritic, and four of them have been described as “specific” as far as their morphology and filling properties are concerned. Starting from the work hypothesis saying that these “specific” pits would have been used for the treatment of textile plants, the analysis of phytoliths and seeds was carried out, and showed the presence of stinging nettle and flax; flax being so far unknown during the Early Neolithic period in Northern France. Retting, one of the phases of the treatment of these plants, can be noticed in these “specific” pits thanks to the presence of humidity indicators such as sponge spicules and charophytes gyrogonite; the first being associated to stinging nettle’s phytoliths. The rarity of carpological characteristics of the culture of flax during the Neolithic period in Northern France and their strict association with archaeological evidence of its treatment as a textile plant entices us to allude to the hypothesis of a specialisation of some villages in the transformation of this plant. The studies of the traceology of bone tools and of the lithics seem to meet this assumption.
url http://journals.openedition.org/nda/604
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