| Title: |
La pratique de la crémation en Gaule franque (Ve-IXe s.) |
| Authors: |
Nivez, Erwan; Brunet, Vanessa; Noterman, Astrid |
| Contributors: |
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap); Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés Dijon (ARTeHiS); Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bourgogne Europe (UBE); Centre Michel de Boüard - Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales (CRAHAM); Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN); Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Stockholm University; GAAF |
| Source: |
4e Rendez-vous du Groupe d'anthropologie et d'archéologie funéraire; https://hal.science/hal-05559488; 4e Rendez-vous du Groupe d'anthropologie et d'archéologie funéraire, Mar 2026, Caen (MRSH), France. 2026 |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Université de Bourgogne (UB): HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
Carolingien; Mérovingien; Funéraire; Crémation; Anthropologie; Archéologie; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology; [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology |
| Subject Geographic: |
Caen (MRSH); France |
| Description: |
International audience ; Cremation burials in the early High Middle Ages are traditionally regarded either as the occasional survival of ancient funerary practices, or as evidence of contact with Germanic groups among whom the practice carried on after the Gallo-Roman period. Beyond Frankish Gaul, the continuation of cremation after the 4th–5th centuries CE is well documented and accepted by the scholarly community, without being systematically linked ethnicity questions.The situation is rather different in the western part of the Frankish kingdom, where inhumation burials gradually replaced cremation burials during the 3rd century, and had become the dominant, almost exclusive, way of burying the dead by the early 4th century. The persistence of the cremation rite during the early medieval period is consequently approached as improbable, particularly in a context characterised by the development of Christianity.In this respect, cremations are often treated only briefly in reports and publications, on the grounds that they are considered too marginal or atypical for the period. The assumed scarcity of cremation graves in Gaul, or even their anecdotal nature, is based more on disciplinary and technical issues than historical ones. The evolution of the archaeology methods,with the increasing use of radiocarbon dating, have led to the identification of a growing corpus of early medieval cremations. These recent discoveries, now attested well beyond the north of the kingdom and as far as the west and south of the Loire, invite a reconsideration of the importance and distribution of the practice This Gaaf Rendez-vous aims to be a time for reflection and cross-disciplinary discussion, providing anopportunity to change our approach on cremations in Gaul and to reconsider what may be an unduly linearconception of early medieval mortuary practices. ; En archéologie, pour le premier Moyen Âge, les vestiges liés à la pratique de la crémation sont traditionnellement envisagés comme le témoignage d’une survivance ponctuelle ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
French |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-05559488; https://hal.science/hal-05559488v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-05559488v1/file/pre-actes_2026_def.pdf |
| Rights: |
https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ETALAB-Licence-Ouverte-v2.0.pdf ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.5334E61E |
| Database: |
BASE |