Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2024

The funerary gender treatment as a marker of social organization: from the Early to the Middle Neolithic in the Paris basin and its margins (France)

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he archaeology of gender provides data on social groups and their organization, identifying differences and inequalities according to sex and age in clothing and adornment, diet, health, division of labor, mobility and kinship, etc. Funerary treatment by age and sex is also a way of achieving this goal, in terms of the status in death. We shall examine how men, women and children are buried, from the point of view of grave architecture, location, and the number and nature of funerary objects. Burial sites in the Paris Basin and its margins will be mobilized in an attempt to highlight the evolution of status in death and the symbols attached to it, from Linear pottery culture to the Chasséen/Michelsberg culture, with an incursion into the Cerny culture (from Early Neolithic to the end of the Middle Neolithic, 5000-3500 BC). In particular, we will show that some women seemed to have a high status during the Linear pottery culture in the Paris basin, whereas it was men in the other parts of Europe. With the Middle Neolithic, men seem to regain a dominant status while women lose this apparent dominance, except when they adopt male attributes. This evolution, with an episode of female prominence, is an exception in the European Neolithic, where social segmentation with a dominant group of men characterizes societies from the Linear pottery culture onwards. We will attempt to explain this evolution in a region located not far from the geographical end of Neolithic colonization and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Anne Augereau, Aline Thomas. The funerary gender treatment as a marker of social organization: from the Early to the Middle Neolithic in the Paris basin and its margins (France). World Neolithic Congress, Nov 2024, Sanliurfa, Turkey. ⟨hal-05087698⟩
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