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In prehistoric Europe hierarchic societies arose and developed technological systems and processes in the production of objects related to everyday use, on the one hand, and items of religious and symbolic character emulating prestige and... more
In prehistoric Europe hierarchic societies arose and developed technological systems and processes in the production of objects related to everyday use, on the one hand, and items of religious and symbolic character emulating prestige and luxury, on the other, while both types of objects may not always be clearly distinguishable. This volume deals with questions of how artisans and other social groups, involved in these productive processes and social practices, reacted to and interacted with the demands connected with elites identities formation, affirmation reconfirmation practices. Innovations and the development of new technologies designed to satisfy the needs of ostentatious behaviour and achieving prestige are key issues of this volume. For example, how can we identify the consequences of such processes, how can we define the role(s) that the craftspeople played in such contexts, and are these always as clear-cut as usually portrayed? The book's common aim is to investigate the economic, socio-political, as well as the technological contexts and backgrounds of the make-up of material culture and technologies in these periods. We examine which role(s) artisans may have played in status and identity formation processes, in rituals and in symbolic performances, in other words, in each aspect of life and death of selected Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age populations in Europe. Many aspects of the social interaction patterns between the different groups of people in those periods have not been adequately discussed and investigated, especially the artisans' important role(s). This volume aims to redress these imbalances by investigating how social groups interacted with each other, and how we may recognize such interactions in the material remains.
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Cultural encounters form a dominant theme in the study of Iron Age Europe. This was particularly acute in regions where urbanising Mediterranean civilisations came into contact with ‘barbarian’ worlds. This volume presents preliminary... more
Cultural encounters form a dominant theme in the study of Iron Age Europe. This was particularly acute in regions where urbanising Mediterranean civilisations came into contact with ‘barbarian’ worlds. This volume presents preliminary work from the ENTRANS Project, which explores the nature and impact of such encounters in south-east Europe, alongside a series of papers on analogous European regions. A range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches are offered in an effort to promote dialogue around these central issues in European protohistory.
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Archéologie et chronologie sont étroitement liées, et évoluent souvent en parallèle. Mais quel impact a réellement la chronologie sur la discipline ? Doit-on considérer que l’archéologie se limite à des bornes chronologiques strictes ?... more
Archéologie et chronologie sont étroitement liées, et évoluent souvent en parallèle.
Mais quel impact a réellement la chronologie sur la discipline ? Doit-on considérer que l’archéologie se limite à des bornes chronologiques strictes ? Quand et pourquoi dit-on que l’on entre dans des périodes dites archéologiques ?

Ce ne sont là que quelques-unes des questions que se sont posées les auteurs de cet ouvrage collectif.
Universitaires, archéologues préventifs, spécialistes variés, doctorants ou professeurs, de nationalités multiples, participent à cette réflexion, offrant ainsi un aspect de la pensée archéologique actuelle et invitant le lecteur à réfléchir sur la définition même de l’archéologie.

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En 1995 un equipo de investigadores de la Casa de Velâzquez de Madrid y del Taller de Arqueologia de Alcaniz (Teruel) iniciaron un proyecto de investigacién sobre la I Edad del Hierro y la cultura ibérica en la cuenca media del rio... more
En 1995 un equipo de investigadores de la Casa de Velâzquez de Madrid y del Taller de Arqueologia de Alcaniz (Teruel) iniciaron un proyecto de investigacién sobre la I Edad del Hierro y la cultura ibérica en la cuenca media del rio Matarrana cuyos resultados se detallan en el presente libro. Las excavaciones realizadas en tres yacimientos del término municipal de Valdeltormo (Teruel), completadas por prospecciones en Calaceite, Cretas y La Fresneda, han deparado importantes novedades sobre la evolucién del poblamiento ibérico a lo largo de siete siglos, del VII a. C. al I d. C. Han salido a la luz aspectos hasta ahora mal conocidos como la existencia de profundos cambios en la estructuracién social y en la ordenacidn del territorio; la construccibn de residencias aristocrâticas y recintos fortificados de prestigio; la perduracién de tradiciones culinarias indigenas junto a la introduccién de nuevas técnicas... Estas investigaciones se han completado, ademâs, con la realizacién de trabajos de consolidacién y puesta en valor de los principales yacimientos excavados dentro de la Ruta de turismo cultural "Iberos en el Bajo Aragon".
This paper aims at discussing the birth of the prominent kind of settlement in Mediterranean Gaul from the VIth century BCE on, the hillforts. We will focus on the example of Western Languedoc. In this area, hillforts are known from the... more
This paper aims at discussing the birth of the prominent kind of settlement in Mediterranean Gaul from the VIth century BCE on, the hillforts. We will focus on the example of Western Languedoc. In this area, hillforts are known from the Late Bronze Age, mainly in the hinterland. However, most often, any relationship between this first wave of hillfort development and the one observed later in the littoral area is denied. This later wave is interpreted as the consequence of trade encounter with sea-faring societies from Eastern or Central Mediterranean. Yet, the results of the excavations developed in the hillfort ofMalvieu (Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, Hérault, France), inhabited between the Late Bronze Age and the VIth century BCE allow for challenging this idea.

Cet article analyse les modalités d'émergence de la forme d'habitat prédominante en Gaule méditerranéenne à partir du VI e siècle av. n. è., les sites de hauteur agglomérés et fortifiés, en s'intéressant plus spécifiquement au cas du Languedoc occidental. Dans ce secteur, un premier processus de perchement et de fortification de l'habitat est connu à partir du Bronze Final IIIa, principalement dans les secteurs d'arrière-pays. Pourtant, le plus souvent, tout rapport de causalité entre les processus à l'origine de ces sites anciens et ceux ayant amené à l'émergence des plus récents est nié. On attribue l'émergence de ces derniers à des changements socio-économiques survenus du fait de la rencontre commerciale avec les populations de Méditerranée centrale et orientale. Or, les résultats des fouilles du site de Malvieu (Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, Hérault), un habitat de hauteur fortifié occupé entre la fin de l'âge du Bronze et le VI e siècle av. n. è. amènent à remettre ce point de vue en cause.
Résumé: L'atelier de potiers ibérique du Mas de Moreno fournit un contexte unique pour étudier le rôle de l' épigraphie en contexte productif (Gorgues 2009). La campagne 2015, la dernière de ce programme franco-aragonais (coporté par J.A.... more
Résumé: L'atelier de potiers ibérique du Mas de Moreno fournit un contexte unique pour étudier le rôle de l' épigraphie en contexte productif (Gorgues 2009). La campagne 2015, la dernière de ce programme franco-aragonais (coporté par J.A. Benavente Serrano et un des auteurs), a livré un objet inscrit particulier, un cube à six faces actuellement conservé au CIBA d' Alcañiz. Cet objet a été trouvé dans une couche de rejets de production datables de la 1 ère moitié du 1 ère s. av. J.-C., et a donc été sans nul doute fabriqué au Mas de Moreno. C' est la première fois qu'un tel objet est trouvé dans un contexte archéologique bien daté. Nous présenterons l' objet en le recontextualisant et en proposant des comparaisons avec les autres dés connus dans la péninsule Ibérique. Mots-Clés: archéologie, épigraphie, dé.

Resumen: El taller de alfareros ibéricos de Mas de Moreno ofrece un contexto único para estudiar el papel de la epigrafía en un contexto productivo (Gorgues 2009). La campaña de 2015, la última de este programa franco-aragonés (codirigido por J. A. Benavente Serrano y uno de los autores), entregó un objeto inscrito particular, un cubo de seis caras que se conserva actualmente en el CIBA de Alcañiz. Este objeto se encontró en una capa de restos de producción que data de la primera mitad del siglo I a. C., por lo que es indudable que se fabricó en Mas de Moreno. Es la primera vez que se encuentra un objeto de este tipo en un contexto arqueológico bien datado. Presentaremos el objeto recontextualizándolo y ofreciendo comparaciones con otros dados conocidos en la Península Ibérica.
Cet article analyse les modalités d'émergence de la forme d'habitat prédominante en Gaule méditerranéenne à partir du VI e siècle av. n. è., les sites de hauteur agglomérés et fortifiés, en s'intéressant plus spécifiquement au cas du... more
Cet article analyse les modalités d'émergence de la forme d'habitat prédominante en Gaule méditerranéenne à partir du VI e siècle av. n. è., les sites de hauteur agglomérés et fortifiés, en s'intéressant plus spécifiquement au cas du Languedoc occidental. Dans ce secteur, un premier processus de perchement et de fortification de l'habitat est connu à partir du Bronze Final IIIa, principalement dans les secteurs d'arrière-pays. Pourtant, le plus souvent, tout rapport de causalité entre les processus à l'origine de ces sites anciens et ceux ayant amené à l'émergence des plus récents est nié. On attribue l'émergence de ces derniers à des changements socio-économiques survenus du fait de la rencontre commerciale avec les populations de Méditerranée centrale et orientale. Or, les résultats des fouilles du site de Malvieu (Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, Hérault), un habitat de hauteur fortifié occupé entre la fin de l'âge du Bronze et le VI e siècle av. n. è. amènent à remettre ce point de vue en cause.
Référence complète Milcent, P.-Y., Couderc, F., Auxerre-Géron, F.-A., Barral, P., Basset, C., Bénézet, J., Bernard, L., Blancquaert, G., Carrara, S., Chevillot, C., Chevrier, S., Colin, A., Deberge, Y., Dedet, B., Delrieu, F.,... more
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Milcent, P.-Y., Couderc, F., Auxerre-Géron, F.-A., Barral, P., Basset, C., Bénézet, J., Bernard, L., Blancquaert, G., Carrara, S., Chevillot, C., Chevrier, S., Colin, A., Deberge, Y., Dedet, B., Delrieu, F., Dufay-Garel, Y., Dumas, A., Durand, E., Duval, H., Féliu, C., Gaillard, C., Gardes, P., Giraud, P., Gomez De Soto, J., Gorgues, A., Gruat, P., Hiriart, E., Isoardi, D., Kurzaj, M.-C., Lallemand, D., Landolt, M., Laruaz, J.-M., Lautier, L., Le Dreff, T., Maitay, C., Malrain, F., Martinaux, L., Mocci, F., Nouvel, P., Parachaud, K., Remy, J., Séjalon, P., Sergent, F., Venco, C., Verdin, F., Walter, M., Les établissements de hauteur défendus protohistoriques en France (XXIIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.). Fabien Delrieu; Clément Féliu, Philippe Gruat; Marie-Caroline Kurzaj; Élise Nectoux. Les espaces fortifiés à l’âge du Fer en Europe. Actes du 43e colloque international de l’Association française pour l’étude de l’âge du Fer (Le Puy-en-Velay, 30 mai-1er juin 2019), Collection AFEAF (3), AFEAF, pp.175-194, 2021, 978-2-9567407-2-8

A review of current knowledge is proposed based on updated data for 1330 fortified sites on high ground. These, for the most part, have been explored on too limited an area to understand their precise nature and status. Generally, they are located on spurs and cover a very small area, particularly in the Southeast. Only a quarter of them exceed 7 ha. The size of the fortifications is also an essential criteria, but it was only possible to address it from one clue – the length: the range of disparities are very wide there also; but, we note that this length doubles on average at the end of the Iron Age. The materials of the ramparts reveal trends: earth dominates in the northwest half, stone in the southeast half; wooden frames are scattered, but rarer near the Mediterranean. At the French national as well as at the regional level, the chronological curves of the occupations are very comparable and punctuated by three peaks, of increasing magnitude, at the end of the Bronze Age, the Early and the Late Iron Age. These evolutionary similarities underscore the importance of causalities on a supraregional and intercultural scale. However, there is no consensus on the interpretation of the defended sites’ development during Protohistory.
The chaîne opératoire concept still provides the basic interpretative framework for reconstructing technical processes through the study of archaeological evidence. This paper, based on a case-study, aims at emphasizing the biases linked... more
The chaîne opératoire concept still provides the basic interpretative framework for reconstructing technical processes through the study of archaeological evidence. This paper, based on a case-study, aims at emphasizing the biases linked with this concept. The dynamic and the results of the joint French-Spanish excavation of the Iberian potters’ workshop of the Mas de Moreno de Foz-Calanda (Teruel, Lower Aragon) showed that such focus may mislead the investigation. Based on a linear conception of the technical process, the chaîne opératoire may have for consequence to interpret the production space according to the archaeologists’ own preconceptions. In order to investigate gestures and movements within this Late Iron Age workshop, we propose in this paper to adopt methods focusing on high-resolution study of the remains themselves.

Le concept de « chaîne opératoire » reste de nos jours le cadre dans lequel se développe toute restitution d’un processus technique en archéologie. Cet article vise, sur la base d’un retour d’expérience, à montrer les limites de cette démarche. L’exemple des fouilles développées par une équipe franco-espagnole en Bas-Aragon, sur l’atelier de potiers ibérique du Mas de Moreno de Foz-Calanda (Teruel), a montré en effet qu’elle pouvait induire en erreur au moment d’interpréter les données de fouille. Basée sur une conception linéaire du processus technique, le concept de « chaîne opératoire » amène à projeter dans l’espace des logiques productives qui rendent en fait compte des représentations mentales des archéologues. Pour appréhender correctement cet atelier de l’âge du Fer récent et restituer au mieux les gestes et les mouvements des potiers, nous proposons ici une méthode d’approche centrée sur l’étude fine de la morphologie des vestiges liés à l’activité potière.
This paper discusses the morphology and the morphodynamics of Iron Age work-places, in order to challenge the prevalent idea of a linear relationship between time and space in the ancient techniques of production. It demonstrates that... more
This paper discusses the morphology and the morphodynamics of Iron Age work-places, in order to challenge the prevalent idea of a linear relationship between time and space in the ancient techniques of production.  It demonstrates that production space was indeed a fluid feature, and that its proper understanding must take into accounts aspects linked with temporality.
The chaîne opératoire concept still provides the basic interpretative framework for reconstructing technical processes through the study of archaeological evidence. This paper, based on a case-study, aims at emphasizing the biases linked... more
The chaîne opératoire concept still provides the basic interpretative framework for reconstructing technical processes through the study of archaeological evidence. This paper, based on a case-study, aims at emphasizing the biases linked with this concept. The dynamic and the results of the joint French-Spanish excavation of the Iberian potters’ workshop of the Mas de Moreno de Foz-Calanda (Teruel, Lower Aragon) showed that such focus may mislead the investigation. Based on a linear conception of the technical process, the chaîne opératoire may have for consequence to interpret the production space according to the archaeologists’ own preconceptions. In order to investigate gestures and movements within this Late Iron Age workshop, we propose in this paper to adopt methods focusing on high-resolution study of the remains themselves.

Le concept de « chaîne opératoire » reste de nos jours le cadre dans lequel se développe toute restitution d’un processus technique en archéologie. Cet article vise, sur la base d’un retour d’expérience, à montrer les limites de cette démarche. L’exemple des fouilles développées par une équipe franco-espagnole en Bas-Aragon, sur l’atelier de potiers ibérique du Mas de Moreno de Foz-Calanda (Teruel), a montré en effet qu’elle pouvait induire en erreur au moment d’interpréter les données de fouille. Basée sur une conception linéaire du processus technique, le concept de « chaîne opératoire » amène à projeter dans l’espace des logiques productives qui rendent en fait compte des représentations mentales des archéologues. Pour appréhender correctement cet atelier de l’âge du Fer récent et restituer au mieux les gestes et les mouvements des potiers, nous proposons ici une méthode d’approche centrée sur l’étude fine de la morphologie des vestiges liés à l’activité potière.

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Long (4p) English abstract of a book chapter published in French (Circulations et modalités d'échanges à l'âge du Bronze en France). Special thanks to Lindsey Büster for her help in writing this document. Moreover, in the book, fig.3... more
Long (4p) English abstract of a book chapter published in French (Circulations et modalités d'échanges à l'âge du Bronze en France). Special thanks to Lindsey Büster for her help in writing this document.

Moreover, in the book, fig.3 appeared mistakenly printed in shades of grey, which makes it a bit difficult to understand. A coloured version of this figure, made by Florent Comte, has been inserted in this document
In: Pernot M. (dir.), Quatre mille ans d'histoire du cuivre. Fragments d'une suite de rebonds, Bordeaux, Ausonius-Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2017, 177-132.
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This papers provides a full survey of the pottery found in archaeological context during the excavations of Les Martys (Aude, France), a siderurgical area exploited during Roman times. The first discussion deals with chronological... more
This papers provides a full survey of the pottery found in archaeological context during the excavations of Les Martys (Aude, France), a siderurgical area exploited during Roman times. The first discussion deals with chronological aspects, while socio-cultural practices (foodways among them) are considered further.
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In: Armit, I., Potrebica, H., Črešnar, M., Mason, P. & Büster, L. (eds) 2016. Cultural Encounters in Later Prehistoric Europe. Budapest: Archaeolingua. This paper aims at analyzing cross-culture trade (i.e. trade between people of local... more
In: Armit, I., Potrebica, H., Črešnar, M., Mason, P. & Büster, L. (eds) 2016. Cultural Encounters in Later Prehistoric Europe. Budapest: Archaeolingua.

This paper aims at analyzing cross-culture trade (i.e. trade between people of local origin and seaborne traders coming from Greek or Phoenician colonies or from Italy) in the northern part of the Iberian world (i.e. modern-days eastern Aragon, Catalonia and the southern part of the Languedoc), during the Iron Age and previously to the Roman invasion.  It will discuss the prevalent and often implicit assumption according which trade would have been made according to norms established by the seaborne traders themselves. It will briefly review the institutions of trade typical of the ancient Eastern and Central Mediterranean, and outline the materiality of such institutions. Through comparison, it will emphasize the specificities of the Iberian trading practices, mainly based on interpersonal relationship and mutual trust, and show that the seaborne traders adapted themselves to this peculiar reality. Last, it will discuss the modalities of this adaptation, by reconsidering the well-known Greek text of Pech-Maho (Sigean, Aude, France).
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Since the beginnings of the 20th cent and Marquès of Cerralbo's excavations , La Cerca de Aguilar de Anguita (Guadalajara, Spain) is interpreted as a Republican Roman military camp. This interpretation is based on the morphology of the... more
Since the beginnings of the 20th cent and Marquès of Cerralbo's excavations , La Cerca de Aguilar de Anguita (Guadalajara, Spain) is interpreted as a Republican Roman military camp. This interpretation is based on the morphology of the fortification enclosing the 12 ha of the flat hilltop where lies this settlement. But informations about the actual discoveries were really scarce: even the datation relied in inferences based on textual evidences, not in stratigraphy. As part of an Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded program (GuerraHispania), a Franco-Spanish team, led by the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne (UMR 5607 Ausonius) and the University of Castilla-la Mancha (sede de Toledo) made new excavations that were limited in their extension but really innovative as for their results. This paper present these results and the interpretations they allow to sustain.
. in F. Cadiou, M. Navarro, La guerre et ses traces. Conflits et société en Hispanie à l'époque de la conquête romaine (IIIe-Ier s. aC), Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2014, pp.99-132. Infography Fl. Comte Since the beginnings of the 20th... more
. in F. Cadiou, M. Navarro, La guerre et ses traces. Conflits et société en Hispanie à l'époque de la conquête romaine (IIIe-Ier s. aC), Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2014, pp.99-132.

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Since the beginnings of the 20th cent and Marquès of Cerralbo's excavations , La Cerca de Aguilar de Anguita (Guadalajara, Spain) is interpreted as a Republican Roman military camp. This interpretation is based on the morphology of the fortification enclosing the 12 ha of the flat hilltop where lies this settlement. But informations about the actual discoveries were really scarce: even the datation relied in inferences based on textual evidences, not in stratigraphy. As part of an Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded program (GuerraHispania), a Franco-Spanish team, led by the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne (UMR 5607 Ausonius) and the University of Castilla-la Mancha (sede de Toledo) made new excavations that were limited in their extension but really innovative as for their results. This paper present these results and the interpretations they allow to sustain.
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Since 2005 a programme of excavations has been carried out at the Late Iberian pottery of Mas de Moreno in Foz-Calanda (Teruel), which was identified at the beginning of the 1980s by M. Martínez. We present the results of this research in... more
Since 2005 a programme of excavations has been carried out at the Late Iberian pottery of Mas de Moreno in Foz-Calanda (Teruel), which was identified at the beginning of the 1980s by M. Martínez. We present the results of this research in relation to the working area and Iberian pottery- making technology. Between the beginning of the activity (at the end of the 3rd century BC) and the mid-1st century BC, the morphology of the workshop evolved considerably. Whereas its geographical location is undoubtedly linked to the nearby availability of the essential raw materials (clay, water and fuel), its internal structure appears to be less rigid; for example, the pre-firing activities are quite dispersed, depending on the period. It is the kilns that give a little permanence to the spatial organisation of the chaîne opératoire. We know of six of them, all of which were destroyed around 50 BC, when Kiln 2 was built, the latter coming within the setting of a workshop highly influenced by Roman models. The Iberian kilns have a very complex morphology, which we attempt to interpret. We defend the hypothesis that they are muffle kilns used to fire the pottery entirely in an oxidising atmosphere.

Depuis 2005, un programme de fouille porte sur l’atelier de potiers ibérique tardif du Mas de Moreno, à Foz-Calanda (Teruel), identifié dès le début des années 1980 par M. Martínez. Nous présenterons ici les résultats de cette recherche en relation avec la structure de l’aire de travail etla technologie potière ibérique. Depuis les débuts de l’activité (à la fin du iiie s. av. J.-C.) jusqu’au milieu du ier s. av. J.-C., la morphologie de l’atelier est assez évolutive. Si sa localisation géographique est sans nul doute liée à la disponibilité, à proximité, des matières premières indispensables (argile, eau, combustible), sa structure interne ne semble guère rigide : les activités préalables à la cuisson sont par exemple assez dispersées en fonction des époques. Ce sont les fours qui donnent un peu de pérennité à l’organisation spatiale de la chaîne opératoire. Nous connaissons six d’entre eux, tous détruits aux alentours de 50 av. J.-C., quand on construisit le four 2, lequel s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un atelier très influencé par les modèles romains. Les fours ibériques présentent une morphologie très complexe que nous essaierons d’interpréter. Nous défendons l’idée qu’il s’agit de fours à moufle servant à cuire la céramique entièrement en atmosphère oxydante.
The aim of this paper is to challenge the widespread idea that Iron Age technology can only be a cheap version of the "classical Mediterranean" one. We'll focus on the pottery production in order to show that technology transfers in the... more
The aim of this paper is to challenge the widespread idea that Iron Age technology can only be a cheap version of the "classical Mediterranean" one. We'll focus on the pottery production in order to show that technology transfers in the Ancient world were a very complex phenomenon, absolutely not linear. Far away the "irradiation" process from a classical center towards a protohistoric periphery, we can see emerge a "technological culture" common to potters belonging to both areas. In this widely integrated technological world, innovation is a multipolar process, in which the Iberian world seems perfectly able to play an active role.
This paper provided, 10 years ago, the first reinterpretation of the so called "funerary wells" ("puits funéraires"), well known in the Gallic settlements of Toulouse and Vieille-Toulouse, as water-wells (rather simply), filled with... more
This paper provided, 10 years ago, the first reinterpretation of the so called "funerary wells" ("puits funéraires"), well known in the Gallic settlements of Toulouse and Vieille-Toulouse, as water-wells (rather simply), filled with detritic remains.
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Linear socio-evolutionism is a powerful trend in Iron Age Western Mediterranean archaeology. It is often, maybe always, assumed that local polities were engaged in a convergence process which would forcefully bring them to fit in the... more
Linear socio-evolutionism is a powerful trend in Iron Age Western Mediterranean archaeology. It is often, maybe always, assumed that local polities were engaged in a convergence process which would forcefully bring them to fit in the city-state model, rooted
in the Eastern and Central Mediterranean areas, through the classical evolution from Complex Chiefdoms into Archaic States. In this process, native ‘elites’ are thought to play a fundamental role, especially through their coercive capacity which enables them to maintain themselves at the top of the social hierarchies. These hierarchies are tacitly described as quite rigid in their structure all throughout the period. The funerary record provides good hints for such long-term stability – from the 6th century BC to the end of the 3rd century BC, grave goods emphasize rank and gender identities in a rather homogeneous fashion, and highlight
the dominating position of (supposedly) male warriors.
Yet, settlement archaeology provides an interesting alternative insight. In some sites, domestic architecture suggests the existence of a rather static hierarchy, while fluidity seems to prevail in others. This situation appear even more diverse if we compare the time span within which each process can be observed: strong hierarchies mainly characterize short-lived
settlements while fluid situations, ensured through competitive processes, mainly in the sphere of armed violence and, maybe more typically, in the craft area, prevail in those settled
for a long time.
In this presentation, I will propose that the contrast between hierarchy and heterarchy – used here in its political sense – is to be considered in a chronological perspective. At a given moment, it seems likely that a native community appeared to us as well as to itself as strongly hierarchized. But this short term hierarchy appears also as the result of a long term heterarchical process, whose dynamics I will analyse.

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Le Laboratoire des Sciences Archéologiques de Bordeaux (LaScArBx) organise à intervalle régulier des "petits déjeuners" au cours desquels s'échangent des idées sur des aspects d'intérêt général dans le cadre de notre pratique... more
Le Laboratoire des Sciences Archéologiques de Bordeaux (LaScArBx) organise à intervalle régulier des "petits déjeuners" au cours desquels s'échangent des idées sur des aspects d'intérêt général dans le cadre de notre pratique scientifique. Ces échanges sont filmés. En compagnie de D. Cochard, j'ai animé la session du 27 mai 2014. Le lien ci-dessous renvoie vers la vidéo de mon intervention (durée: 20 min env.).

The Bordeaux Archaeological Sciences Laboratory (LaScArBx) organizes regularly some "breakfasts" in which are discussed matters of general interest as for our scientific practice. These debates are filmed. Together with David Cochard, I animated the may 27 session. Here is the link toward the video of my speech (in French).
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The link allows for access to a digital poster explaining the way we used 3D recording during the excavations of the Iron Age potters workshop of the Mas de Moreno (Foz-Calanda, Spain). This process begins during the fieldwork and extends... more
The link allows for access to a digital poster explaining the way we used 3D recording during the excavations of the Iron Age potters workshop of the Mas de Moreno (Foz-Calanda, Spain). This process begins during the fieldwork and extends to the communication of our results to a wide audience.
The digital poster includes videos (3). It was originally aimed at being shown in a huge screen, and was presented at the CAA Oslo 2016. This is a new mean for communicating scientific results, more dynamic than a "classical" poster.
If the videos don't run, click on them.

Special thanks to Pierre Dejarnac (Fedora Editions) for his help during the technical process.
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Depuis le début des années 2010, le patrimoine matériel lié à la bataille de Normandie rentre progressivement dans le domaine de la recherche archéologique. En parallèle, la mémoire des combats et de leur impact sur la population civile... more
Depuis le début des années 2010, le patrimoine matériel lié à la bataille de Normandie rentre progressivement dans le domaine de la recherche archéologique. En parallèle, la mémoire des combats et de leur impact sur la population civile devient peu à peu une mémoire indirecte, portée non plus par des témoins mais par leurs descendants. Ces évolutions prennent place dans un contexte où le tourisme de mémoire prend une importance croissante, pour le meilleur et pour le reste. Face à cette situation, quelle peut être la position des institutions scientifiques actrices de la recherche sur le terrain normand ? Celle des porteurs de mémoire ? Et celle de la population normande, à la fois porteuse d’une mémoire souvent traumatique et protagoniste d’un mouvement dont l’impact économique est majeur ? Il n’est pas question ici de faire un bilan sur ces questions, mais plutôt de partager l’expérience individuelle d’un certain nombre d’acteurs qui ont été amenés à interagir autour de deux projets de fouille archéologique, à La Montanguerie (Amigny) et au Manoir de Brécourt (Sainte-Marie-du-Mont). Différents participants (des archéologues, des passionnés locaux, des porteurs de mémoire à titre individuel et/ou
institutionnel…) feront part de leur expérience et de leur ressenti, en amont d’un moment d’échange. Ces rencontres sont le fruit d’une collaboration entre deux institutions, l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne (programme Sciences Avec et Pour la Société) et le Musée Utah Beach. Elles sont aussi le résultat d’un processus collaboratif ayant impliqué des institutions diverses (CNRS UMR 5607 Ausonius, Ministère de la Culture, entreprise Terreal…) et mobilisé bien des énergies individuelles. Elles auront lieu à deux endroits, le 27 septembre à 17h30, à l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Amphi B200) et le 29 septembre à 20h au Musée Utah Beach.

Intervenants :
-Elizabeth Rieman (porteuse de mémoire, nièce du colonel Rodwell),
-Charles de Vallavieille (maire de Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, président du Musée Utah Beach),
-Louis Campain et Alban Louaintier (chercheurs et passionné, à l’origine de la fouille
d’Amigny),
-Alexis Gorgues (maître de conférences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne).


Since the beginning of the 2010s, the material heritage linked to the Battle of Normandy has gradually entered the field of archaeological research. At the same time, the memory of the battles and their impact on the civilian population is gradually becoming an indirect memory, no longer carried by witnesses but by their descendants. These developments are taking place
in a context where remembrance tourism is becoming increasingly important, for better or for worse.
Faced with this situation, what is the position of the scientific institutions involved in research in Normandy? That of the bearers of memory? And that of the Norman population, both bearers of an often traumatic memory and protagonists of a process whose economic impact is major? The aim here is not to make a global assessment of these questions, but rather to share the individual experiences of a number of actors who were brought to interact around two archaeological excavation projects, in La Montanguerie (Amigny) and le Manoire de Brécourt (Sainte-Marie-du-Mont). Various participants (archaeologists, local enthusiasts, individual
and/or institutional memory bearers, etc.) will share their experience and their feelings, prior to a moment of exchange.
These meetings are the result of a collaboration between two institutions, the University of Bordeaux Montaigne and the Utah Beach Museum. They are also the result of a collaborative process that has involved various institutions (CNRS UMR 5607 Ausonius, Ministry of Culture, Terreal company...) and mobilised many individual energies. They will take place in two locations, on 27 September, 5.30pm at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne (Amphi B200) and on 29 September, 8pm at the Utah Beach Museum.

Speakers:
-Elizabeth Rieman (memory bearer, niece of Colonel Rodwell),
-Charles de Vallavieille (mayor of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, president of the Utah Beach
Museum),
-Louis Campain and Alban Louaintier (researchers and enthusiasts, at the origin of the Amigny
excavation),
-Alexis Gorgues (lecturer, Bordeaux Montaigne University).
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From an archaeological point of view, "public space" can be understood as a specific location structurally and functionally devoted to social interaction, the negotiation of identity and "institutionalized" meetings and performances. Such... more
From an archaeological point of view, "public space" can be understood as a specific location structurally and functionally devoted to social interaction, the negotiation of identity and "institutionalized" meetings and performances. Such spaces are quite recent in human history. This session examines different perspectives on the definition, structure and function of public space in later prehistoric Europe. It includes case studies examining the ways in which how public space is organized and understood in different communities and regions, as well as papers explaining transformation of public space within individual communities over time. Particularly important in that sense are the transformations and negotiation of such spaces that occur in transitional periods when Iron Age communities are becoming part of Hellenistic or Roman world.
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The Maastricht 2017 session " The Value of all Things " approached the many facets of value assessment in the Ancient World. At the EAA in Barcelona 2018, we would like to take this discussion a step further, and investigate the whys and... more
The Maastricht 2017 session " The Value of all Things " approached the many facets of value assessment in the Ancient World. At the EAA in Barcelona 2018, we would like to take this discussion a step further, and investigate the whys and hows of value destruction. Indeed, one of the most noticeable archaeological phenomena in European and Mediterranean late prehistoric societies is the deliberate withdrawal of values from circulation: hoards that were never retrieved, depositions in wetlands, grave goods – sometimes ritually mutilated – and offerings made in sanctuaries. In other words, value – at least in its material form – was destroyed or alienated, as these artefacts could no longer be used, possessed, given away, exchanged or displayed. Such behaviour can be explained in the context of power: performative artefact destruction, for instance, may be intended to emphasize the wealth and power of an individual; or a ritual offering may be aimed at obtaining the goodwill of the gods. We would like, however, in this session to consider an alternative approach, that artefact withdrawal, more than being a destruction of value, was a way of converting value: The conversion of a material value that could be measured, evaluated and negotiated, into a symbolic and incommensurable value. We would like to invite papers based on specific case studies (whether at a local, regional or interregional scale) as well as more theoretical contributions, in order to encourage a comparative approach to the many seemingly contradictive aspects of the curation of valuables.
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Call for Papers - 23rd meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) - Maastricht, 30 august - 3 september 2017 The Value of All Things: Value expression and value assessment in the Ancient World (Europe, Near East and the... more
Call for Papers - 23rd meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) - Maastricht, 30 august - 3 september 2017
The Value of All Things: Value expression and value assessment in the Ancient World (Europe, Near East and the Mediterranean)
http://www.eaa2017maastricht.nl/
https://www.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2017/
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Presentation of the 2019 campaign in Malvieu, supported by the Institute for Field Research
Announcement for the 2018 field school in Malvieu (Hérault, France): the excavation of a Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age hilltop settlement. For further inquiry, please contact me.
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Announcement for the 2018 Malvieu Field School (Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, France): the excavation of a Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age hill-top agglomeration. If you have any further question... just ask!
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À l’invitation de la Revue des Études Anciennes le 9 mars 2018, Julien Zurbach échange avec différents participants sur le thème de la question foncière en Grèce ancienne, sujet central de son livre paru en 2017, Ausonius Éditions : Les... more
À l’invitation de la Revue des Études Anciennes le 9 mars 2018, Julien Zurbach échange avec différents participants sur le thème de la question foncière en Grèce ancienne, sujet central de son livre paru en 2017, Ausonius Éditions : Les hommes, la terre  et la dette en Grèce c. 1400 – c. 500 a.C.
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Announcement for a workshop that will be held in Bordeaux, November 26
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The Conference will address a range of important topics and themes relating to the archaeology of the Roman world. We are inviting proposals for Papers that will present new discoveries or ideas in the field of Roman archaeology through... more
The Conference will address a range of important topics and themes relating to the archaeology of the Roman world. We are inviting proposals for Papers that will present new discoveries or ideas in the field of Roman archaeology through 40 themed conference sessions.
Session 25: For the last ten years, research on Roman Republican conflict archaeology in the western Mediterranean periphery (the Hispaniae and southern Gaul) has seen a relevant impulse: specific projects in France, Spain and Portugal, innovative PhD dissertations, workshops and conferences and field work. As a consequence, the documentary base of this field of study (i.e. the Roman Republican military archaeology) has expanded exponentially, leading to the reinterpretation of the dynamics and the historical significance of the early Roman settlement in those territories.
However, the archaeological identification and characterisation of the Roman Republican (late 3rd c./mid 1st c. BCE) military or conflict spaces (e.g. battlefields, sieges, camps, forts, officinae armorum) has been the main bone of contention. The use of different archaeological criteria in categorising such spaces has often been controversial. The need for a more integrated approach combining material culture studies, bioarchaeology, spatial and landscape archaeology and historical sources or even IT modelling should be considered. The debate is still open.
Within this session, our aim is to enhance debate among researchers in order to develop methodological approaches to identify and characterise such spaces, and bring out new cases to discuss and advance research in this Western periphery.
Call for Paper, 27th EAA annual meeting, Kiel, 8-11 sept. 2021, session #417 Recent scientific and methodological advances have reshaped our understanding of ancient mobility. Although patterns of far-reaching contact have long been... more
Call for Paper, 27th EAA annual meeting, Kiel, 8-11 sept. 2021, session  #417

Recent scientific and methodological advances have reshaped our understanding of ancient mobility. Although patterns of far-reaching contact have long been hypothesised, DNA and isotope analyses have demonstrated that mobility was much more widespread than has traditionally been supposed, and that these networks were complex and diverse. Furthermore, artefact studies (including the more routine implementation of materials science and provenance studies) are demonstrating the ubiquity of long-distance trade networks, and the different ways trade (here defined as any peaceful way of exchanging materials, commodities or services) was made. Such strong and sustained levels of connectivity between different regions for varying durations could only have been achieved with a certain degree of agreement over common social and economic rules, which must have been achieved on the basis of an enduring shared practice, particularly in pre-literate societies where written laws did not exist. As such, informal institutions-i.e. those not enforced by law but based on a common sense of honour and trust-must have been sufficiently strong to allow for swift travel and convenient interaction, within or outwith a formal economic framework. This session invites contributions examining the materiality of long-distance networks across Continental, Atlantic, Northern and pre-classical Mediterranean Europe, from the beginning of the Bronze Age until the appearance of written law. Papers examining patterns of trade, exchange and mobility through systems of material exchange or distribution, the transmission of ideas (related to, for example, technological or symbolic activities) and bioarchaeological methods are welcome, as are those which consider these processes from a range of perspectives: theoretical models, case studies, regional synthesis, etc.
Registration : https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2020/ This session is a follow-up of sessions hosted by the same team at previous EAA conferences, which approached the many faces of values assessment (Maastricht 2017) and the reasons and... more
Registration : https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2020/

This session is a follow-up of sessions hosted by the same team at previous EAA conferences, which approached the many faces of values assessment (Maastricht 2017) and the reasons and consequences of value destruction in the ancient world (Barcelona 2018). Adding another level, this year’s session aims at exploring the materiality of the institutions surrounding all forms of exchange of goods. By institutions, we mean the various rules, whether formal or informal, enforced by law or based on common knowledge and practice, that allowed for transactions to happen.

The term transaction itself encompasses a diversity of practices, ranging from competitive gift-exchange practices to the on-line shopping, but it has always at its core a notion of value assessment. The situation coinage allows for – optimal possibilities of measurement and comparison of value – is only the tip of the iceberg. Other dimensions of value measurement are to be found in the assessment of the volume or mass of a given product. But beyond these quantitative expressions, the values of a good can reside in its own biography : scarcity, crafting method involved in its making, changing of owner. As previous sessions showed, such value(s) can or cannot be measured, and can or cannot be commensurable. Often a shift from commodity to gift or vice versa occurs when objects move across cultural boundaries. This implies that gifts and commodities cannot be a priori separated, and also; that trade and gift exchange are intertwined and often coexistent.

We would like to invite to this session any paper interested in exploring the diversity of value assessment and exchange practices and dealing about all archaeological periods and every part of Europe. All perspectives are welcome : archaeological or ethno-archaeological point of view, theoretical perspective or specific case-studies, and methodologies developed for exploring such topics.
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https://tie.hypotheses.org/ (posts in French and Frenglish). TIE (Trade, Institutions, Economics- …) intends to revive substantivism in the archaeological approaches of the ancient European economies. The scientific context calls for... more
https://tie.hypotheses.org/

(posts in French and Frenglish).

TIE (Trade, Institutions, Economics- …) intends to revive substantivism in the archaeological approaches of the ancient European economies. The scientific context calls for taking such a step. Neo-institutionnalist approaches, through their belief in the intemporality of market economies, have favoured a rather unnuanced depiction of ancient economies, where every behaviour would be profit-motivated and every practice would be a primitive version of ours. In order to discussing such a point of view, we propose a fact-based approach, aiming at establishing experimental ways to explore hypothesis regarding the ancient economic framework, from a period encompassing the whole 1st millennium BCE and an area covering Western Europe and the Mediterranean. TIE will present and discuss analytical protocols aiming at addressing specific issues linked with trade and production. It will disseminate results, methods and analytical tools developed in the framework of the Nostoi project (Nostoi is the acronym for Norms, Standards, Routines: Pottery production and information in the Ancient Mediterranean; the project is funded by the Labex LaScArBx).
TIE team is based in the French CNRS UMR 5607 Aunsonius Lab in Bordeaux.
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Call for papers, come and join us by submitting an abstract on the EAA website before February 8th!
Markers of identity operate in a fluid continuum both in antiquity and nowadays: each identity is a label we ascribe to ourselves (emic) and others (etic). In the contexts of work and crafting, aspects of class, rank, race, age, gender,... more
Markers of identity operate in a fluid continuum both in antiquity and nowadays: each identity is a label we ascribe to ourselves (emic) and others (etic). In the contexts of work and crafting, aspects of class, rank, race, age, gender, job status, religion, and occupation play important roles in how we ourselves, as well as others, shape a person’s identity. 
Each label or ascription is linked to specific behaviours (e.g. political posture). Moreover, specific feelings are connected to (self-)identity, determining how we behave towards others. Outward behaviours, appearances and accessories are what indicates, out of choice or necessity, whether someone belongs, is weird, or worthy of esteem. A level of judgement is also involved, and while labels have always been part of our judgements and categorization of people’s identities, there is far more fluidity and ambiguity in label ascription than we tend to think, both now and in the past. 
In archaeology, traditional identities along the lines of, for example, male/female, Greek/foreign, craftsperson/landowner, free/enslaved, etc., are not easily determined. People have always had multiple identities, fluid and ambiguous, based on many factors in endlessly varied combinations. This session will address the ways in which ancient craftspeople and labourers shaped their multivalent identities through a range of markers, some chosen, some ascribed by others.