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Sébastien Gaime
Les établissements ruraux du Moyen Age en Sologne bourbonnaise et en Limagne septentrionale (Auvergne), VIIe-XIVe siècles, d’après les données de l’archéologie préventive
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L’usage des trachytes de la chaîne des Puys depuis deux millénaires
The very recent work carried out within the framework of a Collective Research Project (PCR-Trachytes) supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs has completely renewed our knowledge of the use of trachytic lavas from the chaîne des Puys over the last two millennia. A complete petrographic identity sheet has been established for each of these trachytes. This database showed that each trachytic volcano was made up of a different lava from those of its neighbours, except for Cliersou and Aumône which have the same lava. Moreover, for the Puy de Dôme and the Cratère Kilian, it was shown that they were each made up of two different lavas. Thus, the fine chara…
Les sarcophages mérovingiens en trachyte. Des carrières aux lieux d'enfouissement (Massif central)
A multi-disciplinary team is currently working on trachyte, a volcanic rock from the Chaîne des Puys (French massif central), within a research program supported by the French ministry of Culture. Although it has been known at least since the 19th century that this rock was used for construction and sculpture in antiquity, and in the making of sarcophagi in the middle ages, the systematisation of the research on trachyte, carried out since 2008, has enabled us to make significant advances in the knowledge of its exploitation and dissemination. Geologists have established a detailed identity card of the six volcanoes where massive lava is available, thereby allowing the classification of eac…
De la carrière au cimetière, nouvelles approches archéologiques sur les sarcophages mérovingiens en trachyte du Puy de Dôme (Massif central, France)
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