Evolution de la conception de la mort et de la gestion des morts dans l’espace urbain et peri-urbain durant l’Antiquité : l’exemple des nécropoles tardives de Vienne et Arles.

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Long thought of as a time of social upheaval, Late Antiquity seems rather to have been a period of wide-ranging social change encompassing a mixture of influences that pose many problems for the study of the period. These multiple influences affect funeral treatmentsb of the period and studying them requires a multidisciplinary approach in the study of urban and peri-urban burial sites of the antic cities of Vienne and Arles (3rd-6th century A.D). This innovative approach, implementing original methodological tools, is relevant. It highlighted the changes in the management and the representation of the dead and Death in Late Antiquity. The burial sites show very different profiles depending on the time period and we can see specificities in the necropolis of the 4th century, ” intermediate” structures where many practices of the High Empire are still used, before the establishment of new Christian structures in different places of the city, which have moved again the necropolises locations.