Search results for "Prehistory"

Red currant and black current, new cultivated fruits in late medieval and early modern Europe: Historic and archaeobotanical evidence

2016

International audience; Red and black currants are cultivated as garden shrubs in Germany, Holland, Denmark and the eastern neighbours of the Baltic since 500-600 years (Karg 2007, Wiethold 2007). Older medieval archaeobotanical finds in central and northern Europe are doubtful concerning dating and/or determination. Some of them may represent some rare collections from the wild. The origin of cultivation is estimated in northern France or Belgium (Killermann, cited by Hegi 1961 : 53), but detailed modern research on this question is still lacking. Nevertheless, the centre of biodiversity of Ribes rubrum L. and Ribes nigrum L. is clearly located in northern and north-western Europe. The fru…

Découverte d'un ex-voto particulier sur le site cultuel d'Essarois (Côte-d'Or) : un cas de polydactylie chez les Gallo-Romains ?

2011

During geo-archaeological research on the slope where the source associated with the Essarois (Côte-d'Or) cult site is located, in the locality of La Cave, an anatomic votive offering of a human foot was discovered in the alluvial sedimentary deposits. Carved from local oolitic limestone, it is rather crude in appearance but it is possible to make out that it has the unusual number of six toes. Although it may have been a blunder or the result of negligence by the sculptor, the phenomenon may equally have been a deliberate representation of a case of polydactyly, a malformation that was known in Antiquity.

From the prehistoric to the posthuman selfie

2019

Abstract LeRoy McDermott’s hypothesis proposes a perceptual interpretation of the Venus statues from to the Upper Paleolithic period these being in fact the first examples of human self-representations. The arguments he brings are of an artistic nature par excellence and they refer to the visual distortions arising from the subject’s point of view. The fantasy of being admired by others through the means of the nude selfie has generated a whole trend in today’s pop culture and Kim Kardashian is a prime example in this sense. The “shareware body” has gone through an entire history of significance, from Albrecht Dürer’s mystical meaning of the body, to Érika Ordosgoitti’s activist take on the…

L'Antiquité tardive dans l'Est de la Gaule I : la vallée du Rhin supérieur et les provinces gauloises limitrophes : actualité de la recherche

2011

Die Akten der internationalen Tagung "L'Antiquité tardive dans l'Est de la Gaule, I", die im November 2008 in Straßburg stattfand, bieten 14 Beiträge zur Archäologie und Geschichte über die Spätantike im östlichen Gallien. Sie zeugen von dem Bestreben, die in dieser Region noch wenig bekannte Epoche verstärkt zu erforschen. Die Beiträge betreffen die französischen und deutschen Teile der spätrömischen Provinzen Lugdunensis I, Belgica I, Belgica II, Sequania und Germania I und präsentieren neue und zum Teil unveröffentlichte Arbeiten zu städtischen und ländlichen Siedlungen der Spätantike. Die Aufsätze, die Städte und/oder militärische Siedlungen vorstellen (Autun, Metz, Straßburg, Biesheim,…

Vitreux (39), Sur l’Abîme. Un établissement rural de l’Antiquité tardive. Rapport de fouille, LGV Rhin-Rhône - Branche Est, Dijon : Inrap Grand Est s…

2009

Le site de Gaillardon à Ménétru-le-Vignoble (Jura) : un établissement de hauteur de l'Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge

2011

L'étude de l'établissement de Gaillardon à Ménétru-le-Vignoble s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche pluridisciplinaire engagé sur les sites de hauteur de l'Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge dans le département du Jura. Créé ex nihilo vers le début du ve siècle, ce lieu semble avoir été occupé de manière permanente jusqu'au vie siècle. Les aménagements identifiés à l'intérieur de l'enceinte maçonnée, qui enserre une superficie de 1,5 ha, suggèrent une concentration d'activités artisanales diversifiées. Certaines catégories de mobilier reflètent un niveau de vie aisé d'une partie des occupants ainsi que la présence d'une garnison ou d'une milice armée. Cet établissement pa…

Espaces funéraires et mobiliers en Champagne-Ardenne durant l'Antiquité tardive

2010

International audience; This article attempts to demonstrate the criteria used in the organization of funerary spaces at the end of Antiquity. Amongthose elements that structure the funerary space, the enclosure trench, understood as a delimiting characteristic or a place for the deposit of objects, seems to have been of decreasing importance. The age of the deceased affects the choice of siting of the grave and treatment of the body, while deposits of grave goods seem little linked to the age of the deceased. An exception to this observation is objects of apotropaic value, which are more frequently found in the graves of the young. On the other hand, gender seems to play a role of little i…

Archaeogenetics and Landscape Dynamics in Sicily during the Holocene: A Review

2021

The Mediterranean islands and their population history are of considerable importance to the interpretation of the population history of Europe as a whole. In this context, Sicily, because of its geographic position, represents a bridge between Africa, the Near East, and Europe that led to the stratification of settlements and admixture events. The genetic analysis of extant and ancient human samples has tried to reconstruct the population dynamics associated with the cultural and demographic changes that took place during the prehistory and history of Sicily. In turn, genetic, demographic and cultural changes need to be understood in the context of the environmental changes that took place…

En torno a un Grafito Ibérico de Fuenvich (Requena)

1977

[ES] Se trata de un grafito realizado en caracteres del tipo «levantino» de uso común desde La Contestania a la Galia Narbonense. Consta de un solo letrero que hay que juzgar como ibérico. Ha sido escrito sobre una pátera. El grafito podría ser un nombre personal. Por haber aparecido en un asentamiento ibero-romano, hay que considerarlo dentro del proceso de romanización (siglo I a. C, fecha en que se data el grafito).

Machine learning for rapid mapping of archaeological structures made of dry stones – Example of burial monuments from the Khirgisuur culture, Mongoli…

2020

11 pages; International audience; The present study proposes a workflow to extract from orthomosaics the enormous amount of dry stones used by past societies to construct funeral complexes in the Mongolian steppes. Several different machine learning algorithms for binary pixel classification (i.e. stone vs non-stone) were evaluated. Input features were extracted from high-resolution orthomosaics and digital elevation models (both derived from aerial imaging). Comparative analysis used two colour spaces (RGB and HSV), texture features (contrast, homogeneity and entropy raster maps), and the topographic position index, combined with nine supervised learning algorithms (nearest centroid, naive…