Les depots d'origine animale dans les espaces funeraires de la culture des "Sepulcres de fossa" (Catalogne)

Abstract

[EN] Funerary structures recorded in Catalonia from the end of the 5th to the middle of the 4th millennia most often consist of inhumations of a single individual accompanied by various grave goods. Though animal remains and objects made from them are not especially abundant, the large number of excavated funerary structures has provided vertebrate faunal assemblages that enable us to make updated observations. In this paper, we present a compilation of these elements, employing data from the literature, as well as data obtained by our own studies. These animal materials consist of tools and ornamental objects. Complete animal burials and partial elements of these animals (especially from domestic species) were also recorded.

[FR] Les structures funeraires documentees entre Ia fin du v• et le milieu du IV• millenaires cal BC en Catalogne sont caracterisees par le fait de contenir habituellement un individu accompagne de divers elements de mobilier. Les objets et restes d'origine animale ne sont pas specialement abondants, pourtant le nombre eleve de structures fouillees a fourni des ensembles faunistiques de vertebres qui permettent de proposer des donnees renouvelees sur les depots d'origine animale dans les espaces funeraires et plus particulierement dans ceux affilies a Ia culture des «Sepulcres de Fossa».