Aquitania, 36, 2020, p. 51-71 Une nécropole à crémation et un dépotoir du Premier âge du Fer à Dax (Landes), “ Village Alzheimer, rue Pascal Lafitte”. Alexandre Lemaire, Marie-José Ancel, Nadine Béague, Géraldine Camagne, Julien Cousteaux, Laurie Flottes, Stéphany Lemaître, Florent Ruzzu *
Résumé
Abstract. An Early Iron Age cremation cemetery and depository in Dax (Landes), ‘Village Alzheimer, rue Pascal Lafitte’
* Alexandre Lemaire Archeodunum, UMR 5608 TRACES ; Marie-José Ancel Archeodunum, UMR 6298 ARTEHIS ; Nadine Béague Inrap, ITEM EA 3002 ; Géraldine Camagne Archeodunum ; Julien Cousteaux Hadès ; Laurie Flottes Archeodunum ; Stéphany Lemaître Archeodunum ; Florent Ruzzu Archeodunum.
Three preventive archaeological operations conducted in succession between 2012 and 2018 at Dax (Landes), on the site of the future ‘ Village Alzheimer’, have enabled the study of the diachronic occupation of the sector from the Neolithic to the present time over some 2.5 hectares. Here we present the findings for the Early Iron Age. The occupation is materialized by two spots some 80 m apart. One is domestic in character and the other funerary. They are situated on either side of a thalweg resulting from Wurmian erosion and controlled by the River Adour hydrosystem, which became completely filled by the end of protohistorical times or early Antiquity. The first is
