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Controlling the uncertainties and the documentary lacks of an archaeological corpus should be the... more Controlling the uncertainties and the documentary lacks of an archaeological corpus should be the priority to interpret correctly the data distribution. The conception of a reliability map in order to estimate the quality of the inventory, the creation of a representation map so as to highlight the over- and under-representations and finally their combination, the confidence map, are efficient tools to spot out the zones concerning which there is a risk for a defective interpretation. We propose here, an application on a case-study of Middle Bronze Age metal hoards and isolated finds, for which the only really determining factor is the possibility for discoveries since they came almost exclusively from chance finds. It can be evaluated after the contemporary population density, and the modern works implying the digging up the soil.
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L'etude des depots est un support essentiel pour la connaissance des societes de l'Age du... more L'etude des depots est un support essentiel pour la connaissance des societes de l'Age du Bronze. Les approches relatives a leur composition se developpent a l'heure actuelle en France ; l'observation de regles d'associations d'objets au sein de ces ensembles permettra peut-etre de mieux comprendre leur finalite. L'etude presentee ici, realisee dans le cadre d'un DEA a l'Universite de Bourgogne, se place dans cette dynamique. Les compositions de quelques depots choisis sont dans un premier temps comparees graphiquement, permettant ainsi de deceler une organisation interne qui peut-etre dans certains cas complexe. En effet quelques depots paraissent etre constitues d'une association de plusieurs elements que l'on peut etudier separement : equipements masculins ou feminins, amas de metal sous forme de haches et de fonderie, series. Le modele propose est ensuite teste de maniere relativement succinte sur des depots de regions diverses, sugger...
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The Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2014
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Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2019
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Revue archéologique de l'Est, 2009
Revue archéologique de l'Est. Langue du site Deutsch. Accueil > Tome 58 > Articles >... more Revue archéologique de l'Est. Langue du site Deutsch. Accueil > Tome 58 > Articles > La circulation des sigillées en Pann ...
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Le projet ANR JADE 2 (2013-2017) concerne l'ensemble de l'Europe – entre Atlantique et me... more Le projet ANR JADE 2 (2013-2017) concerne l'ensemble de l'Europe – entre Atlantique et mer Noire – ou les transferts de jades ont ete alimentes par deux centres de production : l'ile egeenne de Syros des la fin du VIIe millenaire ; et les massifs alpins du Mont Beigua et du Mont Viso a partir du milieu du VIe millenaire. Cette synthese vise a eclairer les valeurs sociales qui sous-tendaient la circulation des haches et des anneaux-disques alpins, dans un reseau qui couvrait 3 200 km d’est en ouest. La demarche est fondee sur la comparaison entre les interpretations ideelles des producteurs (Piemont) et l'imaginaire social des receveurs lointains, dans les marges de l'Europe neolithique.
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The Workgroup 3 of the ArchaeDyn programme, gathering 18 researchers, investigates the spatial dy... more The Workgroup 3 of the ArchaeDyn programme, gathering 18 researchers, investigates the spatial dynamics of trade and of consumption of products during the different stages of their life cycles. Its main focus is on the spatial analysis of interconnections between quarries, workshops, areas where items were consumed or hoarded, and the ways in which they circulated or were transferred. As the principle of ArchaeDyn was to work with already built up datasets brought into the program by the participating researchers, the team was confronted by the very high heterogeneousness of these already existing databases. This article therefore presents several investigations to reduce the problems linked to the considerable differences in time and space scales, in methods of collecting and recording information and in reliability of the data distributions. In a second step, we have decided to orient our researches to the identification and the study of the places at the end of the trajectories t...
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LI Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Oct 12, 2016
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Connecting Networks: Characterising Contact by Measuring Lithic Exchange in the European Neolithic, 2015
This volume brings together a group of peer reviewed papers, most of them presented at a workshop... more This volume brings together a group of peer reviewed papers, most of them presented at a workshop held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The event took place on 15–17 October 2011 and was part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL 2010-2015). The aim of the EUROEVOL project is to contribute to the new interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution that has developed over the last 30 years, and at the same time use these ideas and methods to address specific questions concerning the links between demographic, economic, social and cultural patterns and processes in the first farming societies of temperate Europe. The aim of the EUROEVOL project is to do that for the first time, and in doing so to provide the basis for a new account of the role of farming in transforming early European societies, c.6000-2000 cal BCE.
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Une hache en schiste metamorphique et un long pic en silex ont ete decouverts dans une sepulture ... more Une hache en schiste metamorphique et un long pic en silex ont ete decouverts dans une sepulture a inhumation, datee de 4906-4709 av. J.-C. Par son contexte culturel et la date radiocarbone, cette sepulture a ete attribuee au Villeneuve-Saint-Germain. L'etude typologique de la hache permet de suggerer qu'il s'agit d'une imitation, en roche non alpine, d'une longue hache polie de type Begude, dont les centres de production sont situes autour du mont Viso et du mont Beigua dans les Alpes italiennes, a environ 500 km a vol d'oiseau. La revision chronologique des haches en roches alpines montre que les premieres importations dans le Bassin parisien et la France de l'Est remontent justement au tout debut du Ve millenaire. Ces haches de type Begude, des outils classiques de travail en Italie du Nord, ont ete socialement reinterpretees au-dela des Alpes, valorisees et affectees au domaine des dieux ou bien utilisees pour afficher la suprematie de certains hommes...
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In the Early Roman Period, the province of Pannonia imported pottery from several other provinces... more In the Early Roman Period, the province of Pannonia imported pottery from several other provinces. The main sources were the Danube region and Italian, Gallic, and Germanic provinces, but pottery also arrived from Moesia, Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the territories of the free Germanic tribes. The imported ceramic vases provide valuable evidence of the province’s trade relations. In a funerary context, as grave goods, they reflected the social and economic status of the deceased, as well as traditions and personal choices or even special relations with the exporting region concerned. This analysis takes into account various parameters such as the types of import, the composition of burial assemblages, and the type of structures and contexts. It aims to examine how the economic standing of the deceased’s family and the characteristics associated with consumer communities influenced the choice of pottery placed in graves.
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Plutot que de vouloir privilegier, comme par le passe, des etudes regionales de toutes les haches... more Plutot que de vouloir privilegier, comme par le passe, des etudes regionales de toutes les haches alpines - car le travail serait colossal a l'echelle de l'Europe avec certainement plus d'une dizaine de milliers de haches polies -, nous avons introduit l'idee d'une etude systematique, mais qui porterait essentiellement sur les grandes haches, la coupure (selon des criteres ethnographiques observes en Nouvelle-Guinee) etant etablie a 13,5 cm. Apres dix annees de travail en bibliographie et en musees, notre inventaire compte aujourd'hui 1 764 haches, reparties entre l'Irlande, la Bretagne et le Portugal a l'ouest, la Bulgarie et la Turquie a l'est, le Danemark au nord, la Sicile au sud. L'extension des reseaux de circulation des haches en roches alpines atteint donc 3 000 km a vol d'oiseau entre l'Atlantique et la Mer Noire. Pour le Ve millenaire, le classement typologique de ces outils polis permet de distinguer 15 types differents. En ...
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During the 5th millennium BC, the gulf of Morbihan played a major role in the circulation of soci... more During the 5th millennium BC, the gulf of Morbihan played a major role in the circulation of socially-valued goods, especially those made from Alpine jades (jadeitite, omphacitite, eclogite, some serpentinites and, more rarely, nephrite), in the form of disc-rings and polished axeheads. This contribution begins with a review of the findspot contexts of these exotic objects which had circulated over hundreds of kilometers before being deposited and consecrated. It then uses a cartographic approach to demonstrate the role played by the Morbihan area in the processes of attracting, transforming and (in some cases) rejecting these precious social signifiers. In following the circulation routes of Alpine axeheads and rings, taking into account their typology and chronology, one can identify connections between Morbihan and the western Iberian Peninsula, where objects made from variscite were also involved in impressive long-distance exchanges, while the presence of 'Carnac-type' ...
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