BEECHING , Alain

The rescue excavation of the site of Fortuneau, though still in progress, has provided an opportunity to apply precise excavation and sedimentary analysis methods to large surfaces of a habitat occupied two times during the Final Bronze Age. This double methodology compensates for the limits imposed by the instability of anthropogenic...

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This article presents a ACR project entitled "Organization and functioning of the first farmers society. Structures of the ceramic productions from Liguria to Catalonia ". After a general presentation of this ACR, we evoke the principal characteristics of the early Neolithic ceramic productions in the Mediterranean area. Some methodological...

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This multi-proxy study of a small floodplain in the Rhone catchment area, at the northern edge of the Mediterranean morphoclimatic system, provides valuable information concerning the impact of mid Holocene climate variability (8.5-7.0 ka) and the effects of two rapid climatic changes (8.2 and 7.7/7.1 ka) on an alluvial plain, its basin and the...

L'élaboration des lithothèques constitue l'un des piliers de la recherche sur la caractérisation et la provenance des roches siliceuses taillées durant la Préhistoire. Depuis plus de 40 ans, dans de multiples régions, des prospections sont menées pour documenter et échantillonner les gîtes de matériaux siliceux qui sont autant de sources...