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TI An early 3D-map of a territory? the bronze age carved slab from Saint-Belec, Leuhan (Brittany, France)
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AF NICOLAS, Clement
   PAILLER, Yvan
   STEPHAN, Pierre
   PIERSON, Julie
   AUBRY, Laurent
   LE GALL, Bernard
   LACOMBE, Vincent
   ROLET, Joel
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C1 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology │UMR 8215 Trajectoires, Bournemouth University, Christchurch House CG17, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB UK
   UMR 6554 LETG, INRAP│UBO│IUEM, Rue Dumont d'Urville - Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, 29280 France
   UMR 6554 LETG, CNRS│IUEM, Rue Dumont d'Urville - Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, 29280 France
   UMR 8215 Trajectoires, CNRS│Centre Malher, 9 rue Malher, Paris, 75004 France
   UMR 6538 Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, CNRS│IUEM, Rue Dumont d'Urville - Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, 29280 France
   DIGISCAN3D, ZA de Viais, 4 rue des Tuiliers, Pont-Saint-Martin, 44860 France
   UBO, UMR 6538 Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Rue Dumont d'Urville, Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, 29280 France
C2 UNIV TRAJECTOIRES BOURNEMOUTH, UK
   UBO, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   DIGISCAN3D, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
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UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00744/85637/90776.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00744/85637/90777.docx
LA English
DT Article
AB While early maps are known from all over the world, the key questions always involve: what exactly do they show? And what spatial extent do they cover? In this context, we recently used 3D-modelling to re-examine a carved stone slab datable to the Early Bronze Age (c.2150-1600 BC) that was found at Saint-Belec in Brittany. We show that the surface of the slab had been shaped in three dimensions to represent the relief of the surrounding landscape in which it was found, while several engraved motifs on it evoke contemporary structures known archaeologically. We argue that the Saint-Belec slab represents an area of c.545 km(2) corresponding to the extent of a prehistoric political entity. The carving and subsequent burying of the slab can be linked to the postulated rise and fall of hierarchical societies and raises many wider questions about socio-economic structures in temperate Europe at that time.
PY 2021
PD NOV
SO Oxford Journal Of Archaeology
SN 0262-5253
PU Wiley
VL 40
IS 4
UT 000717526600004
BP 367
EP 390
DI 10.1111/ojoa.12230
ID 85637
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