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The mineral material used by the sculptors of late prehistoric statues has rarely been the subject of detailed study. When the sculpting process has been addressed, it has only been in a cursory manner. However, approaching the techniques used by creators of prehistoric statues, as a complement to chronostratigraphic, archaeographic and ethnoarchaeological studies, can contribute to improving our knowledge. The new research orientations highlight the incoherence of present designations of standing stones. An appropriate vocabulary based on techniques could perhaps translate the result of the work carried out on the stone by the sculptor, the creator of the megalithic work of art. This paper is thus intended as a reflection on a systematic approach to insular statuary based on a systematic and conceptual anthropological vision of techniques, chaînes opératoires, and also a contribution to the necessary renewal of the designations of these works of art.
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ABSTRACT The excavation of the collective grave of La Croix-St-Ouen has revealed a monument whose the discreete appearence is enriching neverthless the research about the collective graves functionning. Not a megalithic monument, it is constituted by flagstones of limestone, blocs of sandstone and probably by a wooden structure also. Although the bones has suffured from the conflagration and the collapse of the monument at the same time, it is meanwhile possible to understand the organisation of the deposit of the eighteen subjects represented there. Last interest of the grave : its destruction by the fire. Has an accident happened or was it an original methode of "condamnation". A state of different hypothesis foreseen will be given here.