Funerary Practices in the Second Half of the Second Millennium BC in Continental Atlantic Europe

Laure Nonat is associate research member of the ITEM laboratory at the University of Pau and the Adour Region (France), and a member of the EcoPast Group at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Her research focuses on the funerary world of the Bronze Age from northwest Spain to southwest France and combines archaeological and anthropological approaches, both cultural and biological. ; M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez has been a lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela since 2010. She is a specialist in the recent prehistory of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula and in archaeological ceramics from the Neolithic to the present. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Montreal in 2018-9 and currently leads research projects in ceramic archaeometry.

Introduction – Laure Nonat et M. Pilar Prieto Martínez ;



BELGIUM / BELGIQUE / BÉLGICA ;


Funerary Practices at the Northern Fringe of the Atlantic Area – Guy de Mulder ;



NORMANDY / NORMANDIE / NORMANDÍA ;


Les contextes funéraires du XVIIe au IXe siècle en Normandie – Cyril Marcigny ;



BRITTANY / BRETAGNE / BRETAÑA ;


Les pratiques funéraires du Bronze moyen et du Bronze final en Bretagne : un premier bilan – Stéphane Blanchet avec la collaboration de Patrick Pihuit ;



CENTRE-WEST / CENTRE-OUEST/ CENTRO-OESTE ;


Que peut-on actuellement dire des pratiques funéraires du Centre-Ouest de la France au Bronze moyen ? – Sylvie Boulud-Gazo, José Gomez de Soto, Muriel Mélin and Marilou Nordez ;


Les inhumations du Bronze ancien de Luxé en Charente (France) – Patricia Semelier, Valérie Audé, Caroline Mougne, Catherine Dupont and Guirec Quérré ;



AQUITANY / AQUITAINE / AQUITANIA ;


Les vases décorés à la cordelette dans les contextes funéraires du bassin de l’Adour à l’âge du Bronze – Laure Nonat ;



CANTABRIC COAST / CÔTE CANTABRIQUE / COSTA CANTÁBRICA ;


Bronze Age Burials and Funerary Practices in Cantabrian Spain – Ángel Armendariz Gutiérrez ;



GALICIA AND THE NORTH OF PORTUGAL / GALICE ET NORD DU PORTUGAL / GALICIA Y NORTE DE PORTUGAL ;


Les contextes funéraires et le dynamisme culturel du nord-ouest de la péninsule Ibérique entre le XVIIIE siècle et le VIIIE siècle avant J.-C. – Laure Nonat, M. Pilar Prieto Martínez and Pablo Vázquez Liz (†) ;


The cist of a Praia da Rola (Mugueimes, Ourense, NW Iberia) – M. Pilar Prieto Martínez, Olalla López-Costas, Pablo Vàzquez Liz (†) and Oscar Lantes Suárez ;


The Burial of a Devesa Do Rei (Vedra, A Coruña, NW Iberian Peninsula) – M. Pilar Prieto Martínez, Oscar Lantes Suárez and Beatriz Guimarey ;


Ritual Sites from the Second Millennium BC in the North West of Spain – M. Pilar Prieto Martínez and Luis Cordeiro ;


Synthèse et Réflexion… – Laure Nonat et M. Pilar Prieto Martínez