page_title: Chasséen culture
section_title: Time line
hierarchical_section_title: Chasséen culture / Time line
caption_attribution_description: Polished Neolithic axeDifferent views of the same specimen.
context_page_description: Chasséen culture is the name given to the archaeological culture of prehistoric France of the late Neolithic, which dates to roughly between 4500 BC and 3500 BC. The name "Chasséen" derives from the type site near Chassey-le-Camp.
  Chasséen culture spread throughout the plains and plateaux of France, including the Seine basin and the upper Loire valleys, and extended to the present-day départments of Haute-Saône, Vaucluse, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Pas-de-Calais and Eure-et-Loir. Excavations at Bercy have revealed a Chasséen village on the right bank of the Seine; artifacts include wood canoes, pottery, bows and arrows, wood and stone tools.
  Chasséens were sedentary farmers and herders. They lived in huts organized into small villages. Their pottery was little decorated. They had no metal technology, but mastered the use of flint.
  By roughly 3500 BC, the Chasséen culture in France gave way to the late Neolithic transitional Seine-Oise-Marne culture in Northern France and to a series of archaeological cultures in Southern France.
context_section_description: 4000: Chasséen village of Bercy near Paris
  4400: Chasséen village of Saint-Michel du Touch near Toulouse.
  4400: Appearance of Rössen culture at Baume de Gonvillars in Haute-Saône.
  3190: Chasséen culture in Calvados.
  3530: Chasséen culture in Pas-de-Calais.
  3450: End of Chasséen culture in Eure-et-Loir.
  3400: End of Chasséen culture in Saint-Mitre (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence).
caption: Stone axes
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