Search results for "Prehistory"

Introduction

2007

Environnements et cultures à l'âge du Bronze en Europe occidentale.

2007

Les approches paléoenvironnementales récentes permettent de suivre précisément les phases de déprises et d'emprises agricoles, depuis le début du Néolithique jusqu'à nos jours, mais l'âge du Bronze n'avait pas jusqu'alors bénéficié des mêmes études pluridisciplinaires liant dynamique de l'environnement ancien et approche culturelle. Le Bronze moyen correspond souvent à une forte déprise agricole et une détérioration climatique encadrées par des systèmes agro-pastoraux développés et les améliorations climatiques des périodes du Bronze ancien et final. A partir de ce schéma très simple (simpliste pour certains), il est apparu intéressant d'élaborer une problématique globale touchant aux reche…

Tavaux (Jura) : un matériel associé aux tombes d'enfants

2011

In the context of a research program devoted to Gallo-Roman burial grounds in the Jura department, the cremated remains of a soldier were discovered during the excavation of a family cemetery near the town of Tavaux. This grave has been dated between 40 and 60 AD. The same site also revealed a group of perinatal tombs, characterized by the burial of the remains under a roof-tile (imbrex). Some of these tombs also contained funeral offerings, placed beneath or beside the tile.

Computer-assisted orientation and drawing of archaeological pottery.

2018

Archaeologists spend considerable time orienting and drawing ceramic fragments by hand for documentation, to infer their manufacture, the nature of the discovery site and its chronology, and to develop hypotheses about commercial and cultural exchanges, social organisation, resource exploitation, and taphonomic processes. This study presents a survey of existing solutions to the time-consuming problem of orienting and drawing pottery fragments. Orientation is based on the 3D geometry of pottery models, which can now be acquired in minutes with low-cost 3D scanners. Several methods are presented: they are based on normal vectors, or circle fittings, or profile fittings. All these methods see…

The genetic history of Europeans.

2012

The evolutionary history of modern humans is characterized by numerous migrations driven by environmental change, population pressures, and cultural innovations. In Europe, the events most widely considered to have had a major impact on patterns of genetic diversity are the initial colonization of the continent by anatomically modern humans (AMH), the last glacial maximum, and the Neolithic transition. For some decades it was assumed that the geographical structuring of genetic diversity within Europe was mainly the result of gene flow during and soon after the Neolithic transition, but recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, computer simulation modeling, and ancie…

De Lunéville à la Franche-Comté : un exemple de diffusion précoce des décors de la Manufacture Chambrette, vers 1755-1760

2009

Frettes (Haute-Saône, France) : un gisement de plein-air du paléolithique moyen, premiers résultats

2014

International audience; Frettes is an open air site discovered in 1900 by Docteur Bouchet. Since that date, the site has been prospected by several other local researchers. The surface industry condensed by areas of 50 m2, shows something defined around a Ferrassie Mousterian with oriental similitudes. Following a sondage campain in 1988 and 1989, the site has been dug in 1990 and 1991 by Gilles Huguenin. This excavation spread over 48 m2 and 3746 artefacts constitute one main lithic serie with about 78 artefacts per meter. During the first polls of 1988-1989 of 4 m2 of extension and the fulfilment of a 200 m trench which had for aim to compare polls all together, the lithic obtained was ri…

La relation entre les supports de peinture et la fonction des espaces dans le balnéaire de la villa de Damblain (Vosges, France).

2010

International audience

Architectures protohistoriques en Europe occidentale du Néolithique final à l'âge du fer

2005

Ill., cartes, plans. Notes bibliogr. Résumés en français, anglais et allemand

Des traces et des hommes : projet interdisciplinaire pour interpréter les comportements techno-économiques des Néandertaliens

2009

Cette contribution expose les problematiques du PCR « Des Traces et des Hommes », un projet de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les modalites d’acquisition et de traitement des matieres vegetales et animales au Paleolithique moyen en Europe occidentale. Elle presente brievement les differentes experimentations effectuees entre 2007 et 2009 et les resultats preliminaires obtenus dans chacun des themes developpes.