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• Introduction
• Visit
• Preface
• Content
  1. Environment
     1. The geological context
     2. The Aisne valley
     3. Flora
     4. Fauna
     5. The first settlements
  2. The Gallic village
     1. The story of a Remi village
     2. The birth of the village
     3. Establishing the village
     4. Village life
  3. Daily life
     1. Agriculture and subsistence
     2. Men and animals
     3. Fishing
     4. Meat in the diet
     5. The table and crockery
     6. Craftsmanship
     7. Trade
  4. The Necropolises
     1. Distribution of the necropolises
     2. Funerary rituals
     3. Funeral plots
     4. The funerary population
     5. Funerary buildings
     6. Food for the dead
     7. Tombs of the sacrificers?
     8. A hierarchy of tombs
  5. Sacred sites
     1. Large sacred sites
     2. The environs of the village in the 1^st century BC.
     3. Another Gallic village: Avançon
     4. Acy-Romance and Romanisation
  6. Archaeological research
     1. 20 years of archaeological research
     2. Methodology
     3. Archeozoology
     4. Experimental archaeology
     5. Acy-Romance seen from the air
     6. Reconstruction and archaeology
     7. Acy-Romance at the Museum of the Ardennes
• Appendices
  1. Resources
  2. Site map
  3. Chronology
  4. Accessibility policy
  5. Credits
• Versions
  1. Version française
  2. Version Flash

A hierarchy of tombs

There was a gradation in the material expression of the status of the deceased. The existence of a building, its architecture, the grave volume, the quantity and diversity of the funerary objects, were indicative of the dead person's place within his community. The contents of the tombs varied widely: from 1 to 21 jars, from 0 to 25 offerings of food, from 0 to 30 miscellaneous objects, and all objects taken together, from 0 to 50.

The other dead
The 140 individuals represented by the bones scattered across the settlement, to which must be added the 23 specially buried subjects, were not entitled to burial rites of this kind. Their remains were abandoned to the natural elements and to predators. Some human bones show traces of cutting and carbonisation comparable to those observed on the bones of animals that had been eaten and could imply some strange practices.

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