DURAND , Stéphane

The site of « La Croix de Choisy » in Maurecourt (Yvelines department) included 24 pits. The archaeological goods and 14C dating constitute a coherent unity enabling to determine that the occupation of the site dates back to a recent phase of the Blicquy – Villeneuve-Saint-Germain group. The pits are mainly detritic, and four of them have been...

Since a few years, archaeologists ask about the function of certain types of pits that typically present a clear narrowing of their base and are rather long and deep, with a sub-vertical base of walls. They usually have a dating that is Neolithic or Bronze Age. Interdisciplinarity and the application of palaeoenvironnemental disciplines appear...

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