Téviec
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The Ile Téviec is located west of PENTHIEVRE on the Quiberon peninsula 11 m high tiny rock island in Brittany. The North of the Côte Sauvage ( Wild Coast ), this island is of outstanding importance for the archeology of the French Endmesolithikums.
Description
Already 1928-1930 the elaborately constructed and referring to sepulchral rites graves by archaeologists Marthe and Saint -Just Péquart discovered in the middens of the island and examined. The dead of stool graves were strewn with ocher. The dating was carried out at about 4625 BC The equipment, including a so-called command staff, sit in about the Tardenoisian.
Teviec and Ile d' Hœdic are crucial for our understanding of the late Middle Stone Age at the transition to the Neolithic period. They are part of the phenomenon of increasing " complexity " in the late Middle Stone Age in North-West Europe and fill a geographical gap between the finds in Portugal and in southern Scandinavia.
A new analysis of burials on Téviec and those on Hoëdic shows the importance of marine resources for Mesolithiker. It also shows a difference between the two islands. While the residents of the much larger and country more remote Hoëdic covered about 75 % of their protein requirements by the sea, on Téviec deceased showed a balance between maritime and terrestrial protein, which could mean that they lived on land ( today's Quiberon Peninsula was possibly still an island ) and on Téviec only buried.
The island can be reached for day trips from Quiberon by ship.