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- The Aisne valley
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- - The first settlements
  - The Bronze Age in the region
  - The 5^th century BC
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  - The harnesses
  - Chariot burials
  - Places of worship in the final Bronze Age
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- The Gallic village
- - The story of a Remi village
  - The area at the end of the 3^rd century BC
- - The birth of the village
  - A summertime settlement
- - Establishing the village
  - Courtyard A : livestock farmers
  - Courtyard B : arable farmers
  - Courtyard C : metal craftsmen
  - "Labourers" and slaves
  - Some highly unusual graves
  - Large scale sacrifices and burial pits
  - The community and religious space
- Daily life
- - Agriculture and subsistence
  - Fields and crops
  - Cereals
  - Fruit and grain
  - Tools
  - Storage
- - Men and animals
  - Butchery
  - Butchering and eating horsemeat
  - Weasels and mice
  - Dog meat and fur
  - Spit-roasting and curing pork
  - Wild boar
- Fishing
- Meat in the diet
- - The table and crockery
  - Beverages
  - Dishes
- - Craftmanship
  - Blacksmiths and coppersmiths
  - Tools
  - Luxury goods
  - Weaving
  - Jewellery, toilet articles and clothes
  - Skins and fur
- - Trade
  - Imports
  - Cast coins
  - Minted coins
  - Magic, superstition and talismans
- The Necropolises
- Distribution of the necropolises
- Funerary rituals
- Funeral plots
- The funerary population
- Funerary buildings
- Food for the dead
- Tombs of the sacrificers ?
- A hierarchy of tombs
- Sacred sites
- - Large sacred sites
  - Nanteuil-sur-Aisne
  - Roizy "les Cinq Horles"
- The environs of the village in the 1^st century
- Another Gallic village: Avançon
- Acy-Romance and romanisation
- Archaeological research
- 20 years of archaeological research
- Methodology
- Archaeozoology
- Experimental archaeology
- Acy-Romance seen from the air
- Reconstruction and archaeology
- Acy-Romance at the Museum of the Ardennes
- Ressources
- Medias
- Glossary
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Acy-Romance

A few kilometres from Reims, capital of the Remi tribe, aerial photographs revealed traces of the Gallic village of Acy-Romance. This discovery led to a meticulous investigation of the site lasting almost twenty years. The team of volunteer archaeologists in charge of the project studied, excavated, analysed and observed every nook and cranny of this little town, a genuine vestige of Gallic life in the Ardennes with its "quarters", its large square, its sacrificial sites… What they found was a long way indeed from the image created by school textbooks or the famous cartoons. The results follow…