Découvertes funéraires gallo-romaines dans le faubourg Saint-Gilles de Langres (Haute-Marne)
Two coffin burials with steles were discovered during a rescue excavation in a burial zone to the North of the ancient roman city. Even though they have both been dated to the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd century AD and that there is a troubling analogy of age and sex, no direct link...
| Published in: | Revue Archéologique de l’Est |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | French |
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Société archéologique de l’Est
2007-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rae/1521 |
| Summary: | Two coffin burials with steles were discovered during a rescue excavation in a burial zone to the North of the ancient roman city. Even though they have both been dated to the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd century AD and that there is a troubling analogy of age and sex, no direct link has been found between the two burials. This new data provides an insight into the diversity of funerary practices during this period where cremations and inhumations (head looking to the East) coexist and where bodies can be manipulated during their decomposition. This is the case with burial n°2. This evaluation has also shed light on the cemetery’s topography at the foot of the town’s slopes, having touched the southern extremity of the funerary zone. |
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| ISSN: | 1266-7706 1760-7264 |