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Acy-Romance

Acy-Romance

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  - 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
- Sitemap

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…

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Répartition de la viande de chien
Gravure d'un cochon
Carte des restes de chevaux dans le village
Découpes des os de chevaux
Plan d'Acy-Romance
Dessin serrure, clé et crochet de serrure à lames
Trous de poteaux et érosion
Carte des alentours de la villa Loupian
Plan de localisation des inhumés assis
Plan des fosses à brebis
Plan des deux maisons des forgerons
Plan des maisons des ouvriers

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Environment

The geological context
The Aisne valley
Flora
Fauna
The first settlements

The Gallic village

The story of a Remi village
The birth of the village
Establishing the village
Village life

Daily life

Agriculture and subsistence
Men and animals
Fishing
Meat in the diet
The table and crockery
Craftmanship
Trade

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
The environs of the village in the 1<sup>st</sup> 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

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Medias
Glossary
Sitemap

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