Search results for "Prehistory"

Analyse des formes et SIG : La borde abandonnée des Bois de Cestre et son environnement

2012

L’occupation du premier âge du Fer du Clos de Roque à Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var)

2016

International audience; L’étude porte sur la céramique non tournée provençale, façonnée par les Gaulois du Midi et présente à Marseille de la fin du VIIe s. à la conquête romaine. La consommation de ces récipients non tournés à Massalia est très différente de celle des sites indigènes qui l’entourent. qui importe et consomme en les intégrant des objets d’une culture différente (urnes, jattes indigènes et ollae étrusques). En effet, à Marseille, ces objets ne représentent pas en eux-mêmes des at-tributs ethniques et leur utilisation se produit seulement dans le cadre d’habitudes alimentaires liées à la cité grecque. La proportion de la vaisselle indigène, au sein de la vaisselle de cuisine, …

Environment and excavation: Pre-lab impacts on ancient DNA analyses

2008

Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses enjoy an increasing role in palaeontological, archaeological and archaeozoological research. The limiting factor for aDNA studies is the degree of DNA preservation. Our study on 291 prehistoric cattle remains from Europe, the Near East and North Africa revealed that DNA preservation is mainly influenced by geographic and climatic conditions. Especially in hot climates, the preservation of sample material is generally low. We observed that these specimens are prone to further degradation and contamination during and after excavation. We give a description of the main caveats and a short guideline for adequate sample handling in order to facilitate the cooperation …

Les sanctuaires d'Aunou-sur-Orne et Alençon (Orne)

2009

Ill. en noir et en coul. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme présentée au Musée de Vieux-la-Romaine, Calvados, 16 mai-3 novembre 2009

Une étude de cas sur les terrasses anciennes de la Marne : les fosses à profil en Y, W de la déviation de la RN44 (Marne)

2014

Les sources iconographiques

2017

International audience

Claiming the sea: Bronze Age fortified sites of the north-eastern Adriatic Sea (Cres and Lošinj islands, Croatia)

2017

ABSTRACTMore than 1,000 Bronze and Iron Age hillforts can be listed for the eastern Adriatic region. These constructions left a mark on the landscape which is still perceptible today. In some cases, such as the island of Losinj, this density is challenging to explain: almost thirty hillfort (or simply hilltop) sites were recorded on a rugged island with an area of 74km2. Different factors potentially involved in the formation of this settlement pattern are discussed (territorial control, surveillance, control of maritime networks), only to show that without considering some kind of symbolic display a plausible explanatory model cannot be devised. A new reading of the coastal seascape is pro…

Commensality in the Late Bronze Age : places and practices : the contribution of recent discoveries in the south-east of the Paris Basin

2021

This doctoral dissertation uses data from the extensive preventive archaeological research carried out in the Upper Seine Valley in the south-east of the Paris Basin for at least five decades an area where Bronze Age and Early Iron Age sites are numerous and generally well preserved. The 2005 excavation by Inrap of the Villiers-sur-Seine site "le Gros Buisson", an "unusual" settlement dating to the final phase of the Late Bronze Age (9th century B.C.) is the main focus of this study, having shed new light on domestic contexts of this pivotal period. This fortified aristocratic dwelling is characterised by an organised plan, abundant artefacts, as well as the unusual consumption of young pig…

Early pastoral communities in the mountains of Sicily. Prehistoric evidence from Vallone Inferno (Scillato) in the palaeoenvironmental framework of t…

2021

Abstract This paper discusses the Middle Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age phases of the occupation of a rock shelter at Vallone Inferno (Scillato, Palermo) in Sicily. Vallone Inferno is a key site for studying the early establishment and development of pastoralism in the prehistoric mountainous environments of Sicily. Seasonal use of the site as a shelter is documented for the earliest pastoral communities that exploited the Madonie mountain range. The results of the analysis of pottery and lithic assemblages contribute to the definition of two chronocultural frameworks that were linked by the same economic subsistence base. The special role of obsidian emerges, while the mobility pattern…

Within the symbolic world of the prehistoric hunters: A GIS-based and 3D model analysis of sites with complexes of linear incisions in western Sicily

2021

Abstract The prehistoric peopling of Sicily has left scattered traces of symbolic activities through well-known rock art expressions in caves and rock shelters located all around the island (among the most significant, the sites of Addaura, Racchio and Genovese). A peculiar phenomenon is the incision of linear signs, often grouped on the same rocky walls, hidden in fissures or placed at the entrance of the underground chambers of caves. In this report, we investigate a sample of these graphic expressions from a spatial and technical point of view. A GIS-based approach presents the territorial pattern providing insight, on a macroscale, into the intentional positioning of the sign complexes.…