Le site néolithique final de la Bastide Blanche (Peyrolles en Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône): Premiers résultats 2003-2004

Abstract

The Bastide Blanche (Peyrolles-en-Provence,Bouches-du-Rhône) is a small settlement perched in edge of the Durance where the principal occupation is ascribable to the extreme end of the Neolithic era. Recognized in the past, it was the subject of multiple excavations but of any study nor of any specific publication. A survey campaign and a first excavation campaign programmed in 2003 and 2004 make it possible today to specify the homogeneity of the assemblies often mentioned in the scientific literature. Beyond the first description of the structures and archaeological furniture put at the day, this short note makes it possible to announce the existence of a sequence for the Rhone-Ouvèze group with in particular the first elements of a definition of the recent or late phase of this culture, contemporary of the development of the recent Bell Beakers Rhodano-Provençal Group.