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Célia BASSET, Caroline TOUQUET LAPORTE-CASSAGNE

THE CROULD RIVER BASIN DURING THE LATE IRON AGE:
a region with rich potential

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Over the last 20 years a significant number of Late Iron sites have been unearthed in the Crould Basin through preventive archaeology. Until recently, publications have been mainly focussed on funerary sites dating to the 3rd century BC, but the discovery of many settlements has led to a redistribution of the data between funerary and domestic contexts. This cross-institutional publication brings together papers on major sites and syntheses that has shed new light on land management and on the social and economic mutations of this transition period of History.

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Célia BASSET, Fanny TROUVÉ

OCCUPATION AND SPATIAL ORGANISATION DURING THE LATE IRON AGE
IN THE CROULD BASIN (VAL-D’OISE):
from an archaeological and geoarchaeological perspective

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Occupation modes and geographical structuration of settlements can be ascertained from their high density during the Late Iron Age. Using an archaeological and geoarchaeological approach, we have been able to describe occupations dating from the early La Tène to the Augustinian period using, on the one hand, different settlement types and structures and on the other, by understanding the spatial relationship between enclosures and the key features of the surrounding territory such as road networks. The digging of a network of ditches during the Middle La Tène constitutes the first visible organisation of the landscape. A chronological overview of the exploitation of these micro-territories will be presented in this paper.

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Jean-Gabriel PARIAT, Isabelle-Frances SIMON

COMPLETE AND INCOMPLETE SKELETONS AND SCATTERED HUMAN REMAINS
FROM LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENT CONTEXTS:
research perspectives

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Human remains are frequently found associated with domestic structures on late Iron Age sites in the Crould basin. This fact forms the basis of a methodological consideration of the value of the samples available to archaeologists. After a detailed listing of data previously collected, several research strategies are suggested to provide input for future reviews of late Iron-Age burial practices.

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Sylvain BAUVAIS, Alexandre DISSER, Philippe DILLMANN

IRON AGE IRON METALLURGY IN THE CROULD RIVER BASIN:
provenance and production organisation

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The Crould Valley is lacking in local mineral ore resources for the production of wrought iron. Nevertheless, the metal circulates in different forms and is included in the socio-economic networks of the area. A qualitative and quantitative classification of sites has enabled us to highlight the evolution of how these activities were organised during the Late Iron Age. The analyses of provenance carried out on three sites indicates a geographically limited supply network. The study of the evolution of forging activities in the Crould Valley shows that even if the exchange networks enable the development of local productions, there is a fragile balance and the smallest change in power relations can call into question the benefits gained.

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Stéphanie LEPAREUX-COUTURIER
with the cooperation of Gilles FRONTEAU and Cécile MONCHABLON

MILLING EQUIPMENT FROM RURAL LA TÈNE SITES IN THE CROULD BASIN
(VAL-D’OISE/SEINE-SAINT-DENIS):
morphological characteristics and materials

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The study concerns around forty querns from La Tène-period settlements in the Crould basin. The significant number of tools for rotary grinding, which typifies the assemblage, shows an early assimilation of this system for grain transformation and a preferential use of local stone for fabrication. Typological and technological uniformity of rotary querns during the period in question is demonstrated.

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