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kilometres to the east of Meaux. The plots already excavated cover about 40 hectares. The occupation of the valley here includes a large protohistoric funerary zone on the slope of the eroded former terrace. This overlooks about 500 m of an alluvial layer descending gently to the Marne. The first 300 metres beyond the flood plain present a dwelling which developed at the end of the Early Neolithic, some twenty isolated burials, and protohistoric open agricultural establishments. The latter follow one another on the same spot for more than a millennium from the end of Late Bronze IIb/ IIIa (RSFO) until the late La Tène period with no important interruptions but with varying degrees of density. For the Late Bronze Age, two focal points have been discovered. One is merely probable and the almost total lack of artefacts has not helped its study; the second, much better documented, has given rise to a search for markers of the slow evolution of this rural world. Our working hypothesis is founded on the spatial approach of peasant households during the last two phases of the Late Bronze Age, at the time of the transition to the first Iron Age and Early/ Middle Hallstatt in the same location. It is based on the cross-referencing of all data regarding the vestiges studied and gathered during the successive excavation campaigns: the classification of the architecture of the buildings, pits and silos has been correlated with the artefact data and the degree of proximity between the structures. In spite of the low number of artefacts found for each of the five internal chronological stages defined by the pottery and a complex horizontal stratigraphy we have attempted to perceive the elementary composition of the eleven rural domestic units thus identified; their probable surfaces - without the peripheral silos - vary between approximately 3000 square metres for the smallest (and earliest) and 1.2 hectares for the largest (and most recent).
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