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Metrics details Situating prehistoric sites in their past environment helps us to understand their functionality and the organization of early sedentary human societies this is a challenge as the natural environment constantly evolves through time and erases these constructions This study introduces a reassessment of the paleo-landscape evolution around the Neolithic enclosures at the Noyen-sur-Seine site based on new field observations as well as the synthesis of (un)published and new radiocarbon dating our results show that the Noyen enclosures were not built along a Neolithic Seine River: the nearby channels were active in the Middle Age and Early Modern periods the results show that the enclosures were originally much larger: only a fraction that survived river erosion (lateral migration rates up to 2–3 m yr−1 estimated during the nineteenth century) has been preserved an abandoned Mesolithic Seine River served as a natural delimitation of the SE part of the Neolithic enclosures These results indicate that Neolithic enclosures in alluvial settings are often only partly preserved and that societies from that period lived farther away from active rivers than originally thought the perception of archaeological sites in their current landscape may be different from their original configurations a careful reconstitution of the landscape evolution dynamics based on geomorphic and sedimentary analyses is necessary before proceeding to further interpretations of the dynamics of early settlement Note that (a) and (b) have a circular shape and that the limit of (c) (d) and (e) correspond to erosional boundaries (e′) early reconstruction of the Noyen-sur-Seine landscape it is assumed that the B enclosure was delimited by a Neolithic Seine River which implied the implantation of early sedentary societies by the river this model is challenged by showing that the erosional boundaries occurred in Noyen-sur-Seine much later than the Neolithic crescent bars (dashed white lines) and Neolithic enclosures (orange dashed lines) A chronology with the relative and absolute dating of channels a to h as well as the two monoxyle pirogues are presented The white dots correspond to locations where field observations and/or radiocarbon sampling were performed hypotheses on the age of channels at Noyen-sur-Seine were behind the suggestion that a first Neolithic enclosure took advantage of the meander as a natural delimitation and that a second later Neolithic enclosure was built along the Seine River the age of these channels was never determined and the early interpretation remained entrenched in the community A reassessment of the chronologies of channels migration and abandonment seems therefore necessary both directly—by dating the organic infill of the abandoned using radiocarbon techniques—and indirectly—by assessing the lateral migration rate and paths of the paleo-Seine River based on the analysis of historical maps We show that the Neolithic configuration of the site was different than originally thought and we discuss the broader implications for the location and size of enclosures in alluvial settings (b) Distribution of the estimated migration distance for the left bank (thin black curve) and right bank (thin blue curve) as well as the total (thick black curve) Some corresponding lateral migration rates are indicated in red The migration rates are calculated by dividing the distance by the time between maps (i.e. It seems more plausible that they would have been at least partly eroded A radiocarbon age calculated on a 40 cm deep sample within the channel d sediment returned a date of 1811–1917 yrs cal historical maps and radiocarbon dating of the sediment infill of the abandoned channels demonstrated that the abandonment of the channel to the north of the enclosure is much more recent than the Neolithic period the northern d channel was never a boundary for the Neolithic enclosure as it was abandoned much more recently (i.e. whose bankfull activity dated back to the Mesolithic was much shallower during the Neolithic period no bankfull active Neolithic Seine River could be identified in the vicinity of the Neolithic enclosures it is possible to estimate the southward lateral migration rate of the Seine River after the cutoff event from ca The two values are relatively close and consistent with modern and centennial estimates They further indicate that the d and f channels were eroded over a distance of at least several hundreds of meters along the enclosure perimeter before being abandoned Reconstructed evolution of the landscape since the Mesolithic showing the progressive erosion of the Neolithic enclosures due to the migration of the Seine River The reconstruction supports the hypothesis that a system of large circular enclosures was progressively eroded along the bank of the laterally migrating Seine River The locus where the two pirogues were abandoned is also reported near the h channel) were therefore more likely to be occupied as shown by the enclosures of Noyen-sur-Seine the more likely it is to have been mostly eroded away we suggest that they most likely have the same preservation bias as in Noyen-sur-Seine and that the edges of these enclosures correspond to erosional boundaries Systematic dating of abandoned alluvial channels in their surroundings should make it possible to differentiate between the channels that were contemporaneous with these edifices and those that postdated and eroded them These results should encourage a more systematic use of regional geomorphological investigations in archeology in particular via the dating of paleochannels the palimpsest of alluvial traces (channels from different periods) must be subjected to a diachronic analysis to reconstruct the contemporary paleo-landscape of the Neolithic occupations this geo-archaeological approach makes it possible to address the question of how these environments were perceived and managed by ancient societies given that the sedimentary and archaeological archives are systematically incomplete The two maps were georeferenced based on reference points that are still observed on the current cadaster (e.g. 27 reference points were used with uncertainties for position ranging from 4 to 40 m with an average of 18 m The right and left bank were manually calculated for the 1785 and 1848 paths of the Seine River using the ArcGIS software The fit for the migration distribution for the left and right banks is shown for comparison The migration rates were computed by dividing the migration distances by the time span between the two maps Field sampling to carry out radiocarbon dating of the abandoned channel sediment infill was conducted using a hand auger or a peat borer in the organic-rich levels grainsize) were described directly in the field in the form of sedimentary logs The cross-section of the f channel was constructed by interpolation between the sedimentary logs Radiocarbon dating was 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