Le Bronze final de la Suisse occidentale : révision du cadre chronotypologique, grâce aux découvertes de la nécropole de Lausanne-Vidy (canton de Vaud, Suisse)

Abstract

Some forty funerary structures from the Late Bronze Age (approximately 1050 - 800 ВС), were unearthed between 1958 and 1992 on the ancient lake terrace of Vidy, below Lausanne in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland). The majority of these structures were cremations; a few were inhumations or pits. Fifteen tombs provided typological assemblages consisting of pottery, frequently associated with bronze artefacts. To obtain relative and absolute dates for each assemblage, they were compared with other funerary assemblages dated by traditional funerary chronotypology, and with similar pottery collections from lakeshore settlements which have been dated by dendrochronology. On this basis we can propose an updating of the last five phases of the Late Bronze Age for western Switzerland (early and classical HaBl, HaB2, early and late НаВЗ).