House of the Bronze Age
With Bronze age we are entering a renewal period with the development of a road network, the intensification of trade, the specialization of jobskills and therefore the emergence of a specific social hierarchy. The use of stone remains predominant owing to the lack, in our regions, of raw materials needed to make bronze, made of 90% copper and 10% tin .
Reconstructed on the basis of a house discovered in Dampierre-sur-le Doubs( excavations of 1967), the Bronze Age house (+ /-1800 BC) has got the the same characteristics as in the Neolithic period : walls made of mud,
tatched roof and vents.
However innovations appear. For example, its structure has got an apse form( 6 m long and 4 m wide) .
Its Northeast/southwest orientation depends on its location in the village and the social status of its inhabitants.
This family - sized unit from now on has got a clay area for animals and a floor for the occupied part, while the
fireplace is situated in a delimited place in the ground itself. Mortise and tenon joints make possible the assembly of the wood.This performance can be achieved thanks to the new Bronze equipment (tools and weapons).
The baker’s and potter’s ovens are built outside the house under the canopy. Ceramic pottery, sometimes embellished with painted red or beige patterns and made with the clay coil technique, have now a flat bottom.
Reconstructed on the basis of a house discovered in Dampierre-sur-le Doubs( excavations of 1967), the Bronze Age house (+ /-1800 BC) has got the the same characteristics as in the Neolithic period : walls made of mud,
tatched roof and vents.
However innovations appear. For example, its structure has got an apse form( 6 m long and 4 m wide) .
Its Northeast/southwest orientation depends on its location in the village and the social status of its inhabitants.
This family - sized unit from now on has got a clay area for animals and a floor for the occupied part, while the
fireplace is situated in a delimited place in the ground itself. Mortise and tenon joints make possible the assembly of the wood.This performance can be achieved thanks to the new Bronze equipment (tools and weapons).
The baker’s and potter’s ovens are built outside the house under the canopy. Ceramic pottery, sometimes embellished with painted red or beige patterns and made with the clay coil technique, have now a flat bottom.
