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Chasséen Culture

Late Neolithic culture of France, named for the type site near Chassey-le-Camp, marked by sedentary cereal farming, causewayed enclosures, and distinctive fine undecorated pottery.

Gave way to Final Neolithic/Chalcolithic cultures of France in the following millennium.

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Further reading

• The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe Chris Fowler, Jan Harding and Daniela Hofmann · 2015

  Authoritative survey of Neolithic Europe; covers the French Middle Neolithic Chasséen culture.

• The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies Chris Scarre · 2005

  Widely used world-prehistory textbook for broader context.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Chasséen culture (verified via MediaWiki API; 'Chasséen' redirects here)