Funerary monuments appeared shortly after the arrival of the first farmers along the Atlantic Coast of continental Europe, during the first half of the fifth millennium. These enormous constructions, belonging to the ‘Passy’ phenomenon, can measure over 350 m in length and were erected to commemorate high-status individuals. No funerary evidence from the previous period hints at the emergence of these monuments. They do not exhibit any geographical continuity, originating from different cultural substrates. Nevertheless, these structures are characterized by the repetition of specific traits, including their layout and their spatial articulation, as well as a high degree of gender segregation and a focus on hunting or archery. This convergence reflects a well-established social structure and ideology, shared between communities. Moreover, it implies that the descendants of the two main cultures responsible for the spread of agriculture in Europe, the Linearbandkeramik and the Impresso-Cardial, which met at the end of the continent and which absorbed the descendants of the last hunter-gatherers, generated a new value system, and likely a new religious universe. While the funerary monumentality that appeared alongside the Passy phenomenon continued in the form of megaliths, the system eventually collapsed after a few centuries—which was to be expected, given its extreme character.

第五个千年上半叶，第一批农民沿着欧洲大陆大西洋海岸抵达后不久，葬礼纪念碑就出现了。这些巨大的建筑属于“帕西”现象，长度超过 350 m，是为了纪念地位较高的个人而建造的。之前时期的随葬证据没有暗示这些纪念碑的出现。它们不表现出任何地理连续性，源自不同的文化底物。然而，这些结构的特点是特定特征的重复，包括它们的布局和空间清晰度，以及高度的性别隔离和对狩猎或射箭的关注。这种趋同反映了社区之间共享的完善的社会结构和意识形态。此外，它还意味着负责在欧洲传播农业的两种主要文化的后裔，即线性带克拉米克文化和印象-卡迪尔文化，它们在大陆的尽头相遇并吸收了最后的狩猎采集者的后裔，产生了一个新的价值体系，也可能是一个新的宗教世界。虽然与帕西现象一起出现的丧葬纪念碑继续以巨石的形式出现，但该系统最终在几个世纪后崩溃——鉴于其极端特征，这是可以预料的。