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14
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Français
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Documents
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1996
Description
ABSTRACT Burial places and decorated sites of the Chalcolithíc period are dosely connected by the nature of their contents and for spiritual reasons. A systematic inventory of the stone artefacts in each type of site shows that they have a part in common. Study of stone artefacts from five decorated sites demonstrates that most of them are waste material of flint knapping, executed on the spot by inexperienced workers. These sites, however are not assimilated to workshops, but to sacred places, where apprentices asserted their new social position by accomplishing a ritual conceived as a symbolic death. The origin of these practices is prior to the Chalcolithic and goes back at least to a Chassey tradition.
13 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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Publié par
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Publié le
01 janvier 1996
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Langue
Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
2 Mo