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Article Dans Une Revue Antiquity Année : 2024

The decapitated woman of Puisserguier (Hérault, France): a case study of mortuary treatment

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An exceptional Late Neolithic burial discovered at Puisserguier, southern France, contains a skeleton buried with its head deposited on its torso; the disposal of the rest of the body follows a standard pattern for individual burials of this period. The authors discuss the nature of this deposit in terms of its funerary status.
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hal-04806468 , version 1 (27-11-2024)

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Jérôme Rouquet, Jérôme Hernandez, Romain Marsac, Mélanie Pruvost, Muriel Gandelin. The decapitated woman of Puisserguier (Hérault, France): a case study of mortuary treatment. Antiquity, 2024, pp.1-7. ⟨10.15184/aqy.2024.191⟩. ⟨hal-04806468⟩
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