The live and die in Champagne 5,000 years ago

Researchers from different disciplines study the neolithic period in the region of Marais de Saint-Gond (Marne). This area includes the largest concentration of hypogeas in France. Nearly a hundred hypogeas were discovered there at the end of the 19th century by Baron Joseph de Baye. This high density of neolithic findings is partly explained by the presence of abundant flint. Many flint mines provide testimony of exploitation. From 2013, a multidisciplinary team re-dug the archaeological site of “La Crayère” in Vert-la-Gravelle and re-examined the ancient findings. The aim is to reconstruct the history of this archaeological site and, more widely, that of this territory during the Neolithic period, between 5,000 and 2,000 years before our era.