Occupation de l'espace et gestion des ressources à l'interface entre massifs primaires et bassins secondaires et tertiaires au Néolithique
Subtitle: l'exemple du Massif armoricain et de ses marges
By: Gwenole Kerdivel
Series: BAR international series -- 2383; BAR international series -- 2383.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: fre
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781407309750
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology; Prehistoric Land settlement patterns; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Neolithic period; Population
Description: "This large-scale work represents a study of the occupation of space and management of resources at the interface between primary massifs and secondary and tertiary basins during the Neolithic: the example of the Armorican massif and its margins. This study seeks to establish to what degree we can quantify the impact of a physical feature, the interface between the Armorican massif and the Paris and Aquitainian basins, on population dynamics in western France during the Neolithic. The study area is extensive (62324 km²) and includes almost the whole of eleven French departments (Manche, Calvados, Orne, Mayenne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, Vendée, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Charente-Maritime and Charente). Its natural limits, which have evolved since the Neolithic, are the English Channel in the north and the River Charente and its tributary La Bonnieure, flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, in the south. The period in question is the whole of the Neolithic, chronologically subdivided (with much simplification) in order to facilitate the comparison between the successive chronological stages: Early Neolithic: 5500-4600 BC; Middle Neolithic: 4600-3600 BC; Late and Final Neolithic: 3600-2200 BC."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Includes an English summary.