Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA), Tübingen, 2018
The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970,... more The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970, leading to reports of differing quality and important quantities of unstudied artifacts. A recent analysis of metallurgical slags of these old excavations motivated a new evaluation of the reports, in order to establish the contexts of the material. This presentation aims to discuss the application of a methodology, set by Lefebvre, Rodier and Saligny (2008) for urban archeology, to extract usable information from old and heterogenous field documentation, which is mainly composed of descriptions and drawings. We created a database that enables the use of statistical tools (SQLite, R, Qgis) to integrate the spatial, temporal and functional dimensions, the latest being based on the archaeometallurgical analysis. These three dimensions are considered as continuous spaces, to overcome the heterogeneity of precision of the data without loosing any information. The synthesis allows to better understand the organization of the iron metallurgy, its evolution and its relations with the dynamics of the city. Here, incomplete and imprecise old excavation reports have proven themselves a reliable material to emphasize the structure of craft activities. This methodology could therefore be an efficient tool to synthesize multiples excavation reports and compare the result with other social or environmental data.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Apr 19, 2018
The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970, ... more The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970, leading to reports of differing quality and important quantities of unstudied artifacts. A recent analysis of metallurgical slags of these old excavations motivated a new evaluation of the reports, in order to establish the contexts of the material. This presentation aims to discuss the application of a methodology, set by Lefebvre, Rodier and Saligny (2008) for urban archeology, to extract usable information from old and heterogenous field documentation, which is mainly composed of descriptions and drawings. We created a database that enables the use of statistical tools (SQLite, R, Qgis) to integrate the spatial, temporal and functional dimensions, the latest being based on the archaeometallurgical analysis. These three dimensions are considered as continuous spaces, to overcome the heterogeneity of precision of the data without loosing any information. The synthesis allows to better understand the organization of the iron metallurgy, its evolution and its relations with the dynamics of the city. Here, incomplete and imprecise old excavation reports have proven themselves a reliable material to emphasize the structure of craft activities. This methodology could therefore be an efficient tool to synthesize multiples excavation reports and compare the result with other social or environmental data.
Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation de Montbéliard, Dec 3, 2018
The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduoduru... more The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure-Mathay, France) and their integration in the regional economical space. In this order, the documentation and artefacts of fourteen excavations have been studied. It has enabled us to document fifteen metallurgical contexts, including eight workshops, occupied between the first and the fourth AD. To characterize the smiting activities, around six hundred plano-convex bottoms slags (PCB) have been studied at the macroscopic scale and sixteen at the microscopic scale. Furthermore, a small amount of iron-smiting debris has been added, selected in most interesting contexts. The analysis of these metallurgical remains shows the complete absence of reduction slags, witch could witness an iron production from local ores. The identified activities are in equal parts refining, recycling and shaping of iron objects, alongside with traces of polymetallurgy. A statistical analyse of the wastes assemblies shows three different types of productions : when some workshops executed the entire process, either from refining or from recycling to shaping, other seems to specialise on shaping operations. Interesting point, two very different techniques of recycling were employed, the second appearing only through the fourth century AD ; this precise activity could thus have occupied an important place in the roman region Sequania, where no trace of reduction is known before the Merovingian times. A large amount of smithies were probably in activity in the town, most of which were located in the Faubourg de Pont area. This activity should probably have held an important economical role in this context, along with the ceramic production and meat smoking. But its role was at least more local than that of other well-known sites in the region, producing large amounts of artefacts for the exportation, such as Alesia or Entrains-sur-Nohains.
Bulletin de la Société d’Émulation de Montbéliard N° 140-2017, 2018
The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduoduru... more The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure-Mathay, France) and their integration in the regional economical space. In this order, the documentation and artefacts of fourteen excavations have been studied. It has enabled us to document fifteen metallurgical contexts, including eight workshops, occupied between the first and the fourth AD. To characterize the smiting activities, around six hundred plano-convex bottoms slags (PCB) have been studied at the macroscopic scale and sixteen at the microscopic scale. Furthermore, a small amount of iron-smiting debris has been added, selected in most interesting contexts. The analysis of these metallurgical remains shows the complete absence of reduction slags, witch could witness an iron production from local ores. The identified activities are in equal parts refining, recycling and shaping of iron objects, alongside with traces of polymetallurgy. A statistical analyse of the wastes assemblies shows three different types of productions : when some workshops executed the entire process, either from refining or from recycling to shaping, other seems to specialise on shaping operations. Interesting point, two very different techniques of recycling were employed, the second appearing only through the fourth century AD ; this precise activity could thus have occupied an important place in the roman region Sequania, where no trace of reduction is known before the Merovingian times. A large amount of smithies were probably in activity in the town, most of which were located in the Faubourg de Pont area. This activity should probably have held an important economical role in this context, along with the ceramic production and meat smoking. But its role was at least more local than that of other well-known sites in the region, producing large amounts of artefacts for the exportation, such as Alesia or Entrains-sur-Nohains.
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA), Tübingen, 2018
The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970,... more The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970, leading to reports of differing quality and important quantities of unstudied artifacts. A recent analysis of metallurgical slags of these old excavations motivated a new evaluation of the reports, in order to establish the contexts of the material. This presentation aims to discuss the application of a methodology, set by Lefebvre, Rodier and Saligny (2008) for urban archeology, to extract usable information from old and heterogenous field documentation, which is mainly composed of descriptions and drawings. We created a database that enables the use of statistical tools (SQLite, R, Qgis) to integrate the spatial, temporal and functional dimensions, the latest being based on the archaeometallurgical analysis. These three dimensions are considered as continuous spaces, to overcome the heterogeneity of precision of the data without loosing any information. The synthesis allows to better understand the organization of the iron metallurgy, its evolution and its relations with the dynamics of the city. Here, incomplete and imprecise old excavation reports have proven themselves a reliable material to emphasize the structure of craft activities. This methodology could therefore be an efficient tool to synthesize multiples excavation reports and compare the result with other social or environmental data.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Apr 19, 2018
The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970, ... more The ancient city of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure, France) was excavated in several areas since 1970, leading to reports of differing quality and important quantities of unstudied artifacts. A recent analysis of metallurgical slags of these old excavations motivated a new evaluation of the reports, in order to establish the contexts of the material. This presentation aims to discuss the application of a methodology, set by Lefebvre, Rodier and Saligny (2008) for urban archeology, to extract usable information from old and heterogenous field documentation, which is mainly composed of descriptions and drawings. We created a database that enables the use of statistical tools (SQLite, R, Qgis) to integrate the spatial, temporal and functional dimensions, the latest being based on the archaeometallurgical analysis. These three dimensions are considered as continuous spaces, to overcome the heterogeneity of precision of the data without loosing any information. The synthesis allows to better understand the organization of the iron metallurgy, its evolution and its relations with the dynamics of the city. Here, incomplete and imprecise old excavation reports have proven themselves a reliable material to emphasize the structure of craft activities. This methodology could therefore be an efficient tool to synthesize multiples excavation reports and compare the result with other social or environmental data.
Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation de Montbéliard, Dec 3, 2018
The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduoduru... more The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure-Mathay, France) and their integration in the regional economical space. In this order, the documentation and artefacts of fourteen excavations have been studied. It has enabled us to document fifteen metallurgical contexts, including eight workshops, occupied between the first and the fourth AD. To characterize the smiting activities, around six hundred plano-convex bottoms slags (PCB) have been studied at the macroscopic scale and sixteen at the microscopic scale. Furthermore, a small amount of iron-smiting debris has been added, selected in most interesting contexts. The analysis of these metallurgical remains shows the complete absence of reduction slags, witch could witness an iron production from local ores. The identified activities are in equal parts refining, recycling and shaping of iron objects, alongside with traces of polymetallurgy. A statistical analyse of the wastes assemblies shows three different types of productions : when some workshops executed the entire process, either from refining or from recycling to shaping, other seems to specialise on shaping operations. Interesting point, two very different techniques of recycling were employed, the second appearing only through the fourth century AD ; this precise activity could thus have occupied an important place in the roman region Sequania, where no trace of reduction is known before the Merovingian times. A large amount of smithies were probably in activity in the town, most of which were located in the Faubourg de Pont area. This activity should probably have held an important economical role in this context, along with the ceramic production and meat smoking. But its role was at least more local than that of other well-known sites in the region, producing large amounts of artefacts for the exportation, such as Alesia or Entrains-sur-Nohains.
Bulletin de la Société d’Émulation de Montbéliard N° 140-2017, 2018
The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduoduru... more The present work attempts to study the iron working activities in the Roman town of Epomanduodurum (Mandeure-Mathay, France) and their integration in the regional economical space. In this order, the documentation and artefacts of fourteen excavations have been studied. It has enabled us to document fifteen metallurgical contexts, including eight workshops, occupied between the first and the fourth AD. To characterize the smiting activities, around six hundred plano-convex bottoms slags (PCB) have been studied at the macroscopic scale and sixteen at the microscopic scale. Furthermore, a small amount of iron-smiting debris has been added, selected in most interesting contexts. The analysis of these metallurgical remains shows the complete absence of reduction slags, witch could witness an iron production from local ores. The identified activities are in equal parts refining, recycling and shaping of iron objects, alongside with traces of polymetallurgy. A statistical analyse of the wastes assemblies shows three different types of productions : when some workshops executed the entire process, either from refining or from recycling to shaping, other seems to specialise on shaping operations. Interesting point, two very different techniques of recycling were employed, the second appearing only through the fourth century AD ; this precise activity could thus have occupied an important place in the roman region Sequania, where no trace of reduction is known before the Merovingian times. A large amount of smithies were probably in activity in the town, most of which were located in the Faubourg de Pont area. This activity should probably have held an important economical role in this context, along with the ceramic production and meat smoking. But its role was at least more local than that of other well-known sites in the region, producing large amounts of artefacts for the exportation, such as Alesia or Entrains-sur-Nohains.
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This presentation aims to discuss the application of a methodology, set by Lefebvre, Rodier and Saligny (2008) for urban archeology, to extract usable information from old and heterogenous field documentation, which is mainly composed of descriptions and drawings.
We created a database that enables the use of statistical tools (SQLite, R, Qgis) to integrate the spatial, temporal and functional dimensions, the latest being based on the archaeometallurgical analysis. These three dimensions are considered as continuous spaces, to overcome the heterogeneity of precision of the data without loosing any information.
The synthesis allows to better understand the organization of the iron metallurgy, its evolution and its relations with the dynamics of the city. Here, incomplete and imprecise old excavation reports have proven themselves a reliable material to emphasize the structure of craft activities. This methodology could therefore be an efficient tool to synthesize multiples excavation reports and compare the result with other social or environmental data.
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The analysis of these metallurgical remains shows the complete absence of reduction slags, witch could witness an iron production from local ores. The identified activities are in equal parts refining, recycling and shaping of iron objects, alongside with traces of polymetallurgy. A statistical analyse of the wastes assemblies shows three different types of productions : when some workshops executed the entire process, either from refining or from recycling to shaping, other seems to specialise on shaping operations. Interesting point, two very different techniques of recycling were employed, the second appearing only through the fourth century AD ; this precise activity could thus have occupied an important place in the roman region Sequania, where no trace of reduction is known before the Merovingian times.
A large amount of smithies were probably in activity in the town, most of which were located in the Faubourg de Pont area. This activity should probably have held an important economical role in this context, along with the ceramic production and meat smoking. But its role was at least more local than that of other well-known sites in the region, producing large amounts of artefacts for the exportation, such as Alesia or Entrains-sur-Nohains.
This presentation aims to discuss the application of a methodology, set by Lefebvre, Rodier and Saligny (2008) for urban archeology, to extract usable information from old and heterogenous field documentation, which is mainly composed of descriptions and drawings.
We created a database that enables the use of statistical tools (SQLite, R, Qgis) to integrate the spatial, temporal and functional dimensions, the latest being based on the archaeometallurgical analysis. These three dimensions are considered as continuous spaces, to overcome the heterogeneity of precision of the data without loosing any information.
The synthesis allows to better understand the organization of the iron metallurgy, its evolution and its relations with the dynamics of the city. Here, incomplete and imprecise old excavation reports have proven themselves a reliable material to emphasize the structure of craft activities. This methodology could therefore be an efficient tool to synthesize multiples excavation reports and compare the result with other social or environmental data.
The analysis of these metallurgical remains shows the complete absence of reduction slags, witch could witness an iron production from local ores. The identified activities are in equal parts refining, recycling and shaping of iron objects, alongside with traces of polymetallurgy. A statistical analyse of the wastes assemblies shows three different types of productions : when some workshops executed the entire process, either from refining or from recycling to shaping, other seems to specialise on shaping operations. Interesting point, two very different techniques of recycling were employed, the second appearing only through the fourth century AD ; this precise activity could thus have occupied an important place in the roman region Sequania, where no trace of reduction is known before the Merovingian times.
A large amount of smithies were probably in activity in the town, most of which were located in the Faubourg de Pont area. This activity should probably have held an important economical role in this context, along with the ceramic production and meat smoking. But its role was at least more local than that of other well-known sites in the region, producing large amounts of artefacts for the exportation, such as Alesia or Entrains-sur-Nohains.