This dossier « Géosciences et archéologie : interactions, complémentarités et perspectives » is constituted by fourteen original articles which follow a common approach: bringing together different scientific and professional communities around common subjects to answer complex questions and to brin...

Dynamique géomorphologique holocène et occupation humaine dans le bassin-versant de l’Eure (Bassin de Paris, France) : potentiels d’une approche géoarchéologique multiscalaire et diachronique

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Théophile Piau et al. (2020)

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Located in the western part of the Paris Basin, the Eure catchment is marked by a several thousand years old human occupation. At the interface between several cultural groups since the Neolithic period (Gord, Artenac and Brittany), the Eure valley is a key archeological area for performing geoarcha...

Dialogue interdisciplinaire : de l’unité stratigraphique aux interactions culture-environnement

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Jean-Paul Bravard (2020)

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This paper presents the main periods and dynamics in the rise of geoarchaeology. In the 1860’s, innovative but sparse and short-lived discoveries were realized; sedimentary deposits were integrated in their historical context and sometimes in the context of climate change. The concepts of landscape...

Les géosciences au service de l'archéologie agraire. Une étude de cas sur les rideaux de culture de Goldbach (68)

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Dominique Schwartz et al. (Jun 9, 2020)

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Lynchets correspond to talus slopes that are formed unintentionally at the top of hedgerows by the accumulation of colluvial deposits originating from eroded fields. They may represent highly extended parcellar surfaces, characterized by narrow plots, extending perpendicularly to the slope. The hist...

Approche multi-méthodes expérimentale pour l’étude d’un site d’occupation romaine et médiévale à Horbourg-Wihr

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Hugo REILLER et al. (2020)

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The study presents geophysical surveys and archaeological excavations that complete each other to fulfil two objectives: 1- to understand the evolution of the human occupation from Roman to Medieval times on an archaeological site in Horbourg-Wihr (Haut-Rhin, France); 2- to test the efficiency of an...

Apport des prospections magnétiques haute résolution à la compréhension d’un habitat protohistorique : l’exemple du site de hauteur fortifié du Maimont

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Rémy Wassong et al. (2020)

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As part of the archaeological study of the site of Maimont, located in both Niedersteinbach (Bas-Rhin, France) and Schönau (Rheinland Pfalz, Germany) municipalities, several magnetic surveys have been conducted to fulfil two objectives. Firstly, to identify traces of ancient anthropogenic constructi...

Les origines d’Ostie : quelles interactions avec la dynamique d’embouchure ? (Delta du Tibre, Italie)

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Ferréol Salomon (2020)

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The origins of Ostia have been the subject of numerous archaeological and historical studies. According to ancient authors, the foundation of Ostia is attributed to Ancus Martius who would have reigned between 646 and 616 BCE. However, archaeological data available at Ostia do not support the existe...

Étudier l’occupation d’une ville : les enjeux du PCR « Topographie générale et insertion territoriale de l’agglomération antique de Briga »

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Étienne Mantel et al. (2020)

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The archaeological excavations carried out since 2006 on the site of “Bois-l’Abbé”, located in the town of Eu (Seine-Maritime), have made it possible to demonstrate that the site does not consist of an isolated sanctuary, as mentioned by previous researchers, but of an antique urban area called Brig...

De nouvelles perspectives pour les applications des méthodes électromagnétiques basse fréquence en archéologie

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François-Xavier Simon et al. (2020)

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The low-frequency electromagnetic method (or EMI for ElectroMagnetic Induction), at the crossroads of the magnetic, electrical and GPR methods, offers many possibilities of development but is also limited by important technical constraints. In spite of instrumental developments initiated during the...

Inrap et géophysique : vers une approche raisonnée

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Guillaume Hulin et al. (2020)

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Preventive archaeology in France is based on two stages: evaluation and excavation. Despite a large number of experiments based on geophysical prospection, especially during the evaluation phase, the integration of these techniques within the preventive process remains rather limited. Conflicts and...

Les géosciences au service de l’archéologie agraire. Une étude de cas sur les rideaux de culture de Goldbach (68)

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Dominique Schwartz et al. (2020)

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Spatialisation des découvertes, modélisation du passé. L’informatique au service de l’archéologie

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Lizzie Scholtus (2020)

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The development of computer science in archaeology allows to manage large quantities of disparate data. We propose here a statistical based on the study of small artefacts, in order to highlight regional groups in eastern Gaul during La Tène D1 (150 to 75 BC). This method is based on dividing the st...

Géoarchéologies des contextes urbains : mieux comprendre les modalités de l'artificialisation des géosystèmes

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Quentin Borderie et al. (2020)

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Geoarchaeological approaches to ancient urban contexts focus on the study of the town as an artefact, and as an artificial and anthropogenic sedimentary basin. In such context the relationship between societies and the geosystem generates diverse and dense pedo-sedimentary formations. The studied sc...

De la formation géologique à la tranchée : trouver et comprendre les sites archéologiques menacés par les travaux d’aménagement du territoire

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Patrice Wuscher et al. (2020)

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Earth sciences were used since the earliest paleolithic research in the 19th century to find archaeological sites and to study the adaptation of past societies to environmental changes. They took an important role in the preventive archaeology systems developed from the 1980s to save the remains thr...

Les vestiges antiques de Rennaz-Noville (Vaud, Suisse) et leur contexte sédimentaire : nouvelles évidences de l’écroulement du Tauredunum

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Morgan Millet et al. (2020)

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Ancient remains have been discovered in Rennaz-Noville, in southwestern Switzerland, where the Rhône Valley opens onto Lake Geneva. The stratigraphic sections documented during the construction of a canal revealed that the sedimentary sequence consists of a deformed and compartmentalized diamicton b...