Une crémation primaire multiple en fosse au Néolithique final : la tombe-bûcher de Reichstett-Mundolsheim-Souffelsweyersheim (Bas-Rhin)

On a settlement recently excavated near Strasbourg (low-Alsace), was discovered a Late Neolithic I grave. It is a pit wich contains the debris of an huge pyre, were eleven bodies were burnt. This pit represents also the last place of burial, because all of the bones were left there after the cremation. In this paper, we tried to understand, through the analysis of the bones 'organisation and the study of the sediments, how the pyre has been constructed, and what were the conditions of the cremation. Comparisons of this practice can be only made with very few examples known in the Baden culture of Central Europa.