Archaeologists discovered an unprecedented ancient monument that could rewrite the story

Here’s what you will learn when you read this story:

• An archeological find revealed in Eastern France offers never seen a mix of enclosures.

• The site is used in at least three different periods.

• In part with funerals, researchers hope to reveal more dating and purpose of the site.

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It is as if an ancient round corpus is not enough to cause intrigue in an archaeological find in eastern France, three interconnected enclosures have lifted the tape.

In what the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Studies (Inrap) calls an “unprecedented” discovery in Marliens, France, near Dijon, excavations revealed a series of professions of a site covering the Neolithic to the First Iron Age.

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The oldest profession has a monument with three blocking enclosures. The central section offers a round housing with a diameter of 36 feet, the largest in the group. To the north, the smaller horseshoe-shaped horseshoe-shaped horseshoe is connected directly to the main central piece. To the south, round design remains open to one side, but still connects to the main circle. The team believes that all three structures are connected both in positioning and in dating and that a gravel layer found on the two side enclosures suggests that there is a fence.

“This type of monuments seems unprecedented and no comparison is currently not possible,” the research team said in a statement. Package of Artifacts – including seven flint arrows, two shooting shoots, Flint Lighter and Kama with copper alloy – found in the ditches of the site correspond to the cutting of the flint, which implies the attribution of the Neolith

The team placed a strap with traces of iron oxide tied to pyrite, indicating that it can be used to ignite fires. These sites often accompany a funeral, but the team could not make this conclusion only in this case.

“The analyzes of the composition of the copper alloy of the dagger must allow its origin to be established and provide us with information about commercial exchanges at that time,” the team wrote.

Elsewhere on the site, the team dates five circular enclosures – four open and one closed in the plane of 64,000 square feet – between 1500 BC and 1300 BC BC Funeral. Dating on the basis of five copper pins, a necklace with 40 amber beads and rare ceramic pieces confirms time.

Nearby is also an occupation of the First Iron Age, about 1300 feet from the plain, with urns and funeral ornaments. The early wells of the Bronze Age sit nearby. The analysis of the clay layers at the bottom of the wells can provide information about the natural environment and landscape of the valley during the Bronze Age.

The team believes that with the analyzes of the sites found at the site, combined with Paleo ecological studies, they will be able to “offer a scenario of evolution in this territory over the centuries.”

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