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Mutations urbaines à Boviolles/Nasium (Meuse, Lorraine)
2016
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Villiers-sur-Seine
2020
The known Bronze Age settlements between the Île-de-France and Champagne are usually small, unenclosed family farms. The Villiers-sur-Seine site, however, built in a visible and accessible location that enabled control of activities on the nearby river, is completely different: the two large buildings and their annexes were protected by a system of ditches and an ostentatious palisade. Though the Seine Valley was already anthropised at the end of the 9th century BC, this habitat seems to have had a significant impact on the nearby natural environment: development of agropastoral activities due to the extension of wet meadows, episodes of land clearing for construction, cultivation of variou…
Territories, identities and strategies in Forez from the sixth at the first front millenium BC in the upstream basin of the Loire (France)
2007
This thesis heading Territories, identities and strategies in Forez from the sixth at the first front millenium BC in the upstream basin of the Loire, relates to an extent in the north-Eastern part of the Massif central in contact with the Rhodanian corridor. This intramontane sector (current department of Loire 42) has allowed to build a consequent archaeological corpus which clarified behaviors having strong socio-economic and environmental implications. The archaeological study called upon various disciplines: agronomy, anthropology, archeometry (palynology, dating 14C, etc.), ceramology, geography, geomorphology, petrography, sedimentology, volumetry. It recuts several sets of themes : …
La circulation des objets métalliques à l'âge du Bronze entre Rhône et Saône: utilisation d'une transformation cartographique linéaire
2006
In order to gain a better understanding of circulation flows of metal objects during the Bronze Age, and move beyond traditional distribution maps of archaeological discoveries, the authors propose a more quantitative and concise method of graphic representation, namely cartographic linear transformation. The value of the method was tested on the Saône-Rhône axis. Bronze axes, swords and daggers were recorded along a 50 km strip either side of the river axis, in order to estimate the frequency and mass of objects in “circulation”.
A major shift in Late Bronze Age metalwork production around 900 BC
2023
Our traditional chronology systems hardly ever reflect cultural changes accurately and may even mask real moments of discontinuity. This is particularly true for the second part of the Late Bronze Age Urnfield Period where a radical change in iconography can actually be noticed around 900 BC. Within a very short period, the famous solar bird-boat iconography, which had widely developed over centuries and given rise to the elaborate and sophisticated ornamentation known on solid hilted swords from the 11th/10th century, takes a back seat and we can see a single new symbol coming to the fore, concentrating figurative representation in form of a singular vase-shaped build (Wirth S. 2021, 652-6…
Transmission patterns in the production of Bronze Age solid- hilted swords
2023
Bronze Age swords with a bronze hilt were a highly specialised production. Casting hilts and blades and fixing them to each other require lots of precision and very specific skills. We hardly know anything about the production organisation as moulds are extremely rare, preventing us from locating workshops. However, studying swords themselves using X-ray imaging techniques allows us to reconstruct a part of the chaîne opératoire and gain insight into some aspects of the production processes. We identify three periods in the production of solid-hilted swords at the European scale:1. Experimental phase (1800-1450 BC): small-scaled productions by multiple workshops experimenting various ways o…
Une crise dans la production métallique de l’âge du Bronze final autour de 900 av. J.-C.
2023
La fin du Xe siècle av. J.-C. correspond à une subdivision mineure au sein des principaux systèmes chronologiques d’Europe continentale (transition Bronze final IIIa-IIIb ou Ha B1-B2/3). Il s’agit pourtant d’une période de rupture majeure dans les productions métalliques. L’aspect des objets en bronze, notamment ceux de la sphère personnelle (épées, parures, couteaux…), change radicalement. La riche ornementation graphique répandue jusqu’alors laisse place à des objets beaucoup plus épurés et standardisés. Ce changement rapide doit être mis en relation avec des variations au sein des systèmes de production et le développement de l’utilisation de moules permanents, auparavant réservés à la p…
Quelques réflexions sur la réparation et la réutilisation des objets métalliques à l'âge du Bronze : aspects techniques et culturels
2022
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Production et circulation des épées à poignée métallique de l'âge du Bronze en Europe occidentale
2022
Several regional syntheses have been published on Bronze Age solid-hilted swords, but none for France and the Benelux countries. This dissertation aims first at filling this gap by listing the swords from this region. By adding data from these pre-existing studies, it is possible to study the distribution of solid-hilted swords on a European scale. The building of an inventory is an essential condition to study the diffusion of these weapons over long distances. This must come along with models to characterise the organisation of the swords production and the ways they spread out. It requires us to question the status of the craftsmen, their organisation and their location. One of the first…
Estudio de la dieta en la población del Tossal del Mortòrum mediante análisis de isótopos estables del carbono y del nitrógeno en colágeno óseo
2017
Reconstrucción alimentaria de la población del Bronce del yacimiento del Tossal del Mortórum mediante análisis de isótopos estables en colágeno óseo.