Since 2009, a team of archaeologists specialized in mines and metallurgy from TRACES, a research center from the university of Toulouse2-Le Mirail (UMR 5608), has been working on an important ancient copper site, named Les Barrencs, located on the southern slopes of La Montagne Noire. The first researches have revealed a huge underground mine almost untouched since Antiquity. Its study offers many excellent ways to know more about the organization of an ancient mine, the methods and the strategies used by the Ancients for its exploitation. Since the mine is usually presented as Roman, the archaeological survey seems to indicate that, in its main phase, the mine of Les Barrencs may have been active prior to the Roman conquest of Gaule, possi...
International audienceThe MINEDOR project aims to study from an interdisciplinary and diachronic poi...
International audienceThe Pyrenees and its margins contain numerous metallic resources which have be...
International audienceThe MINEDOR project aims to study from an interdisciplinary and diachronic poi...
Since 2009, a team of archaeologists specialized in mines and metallurgy from TRACES, a research cen...
The Cabrières copper mines over the last five millenia have gone through various degrees of fortune....
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
The Cabrières copper mines over the last five millenia have gone through various degrees of fortune....
Neuf-Bouches (mining district of Cabrières-Péret), the oldest copper mine in France: recent research...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
The opening of mining researches in an old reef gold mine, at the site of Fouilloux (Jumilhac, Dordo...
International audienceCastel-Minier is polymetallic production site settled in the Viscounty of Cous...
International audienceCastel-Minier is polymetallic production site settled in the Viscounty of Cous...
International audienceThe MINEDOR project aims to study from an interdisciplinary and diachronic poi...
International audienceThe Pyrenees and its margins contain numerous metallic resources which have be...
International audienceThe MINEDOR project aims to study from an interdisciplinary and diachronic poi...
Since 2009, a team of archaeologists specialized in mines and metallurgy from TRACES, a research cen...
The Cabrières copper mines over the last five millenia have gone through various degrees of fortune....
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
The Cabrières copper mines over the last five millenia have gone through various degrees of fortune....
Neuf-Bouches (mining district of Cabrières-Péret), the oldest copper mine in France: recent research...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
National audienceNew surveys on the Séronais copper mining district have provided a better understan...
The opening of mining researches in an old reef gold mine, at the site of Fouilloux (Jumilhac, Dordo...
International audienceCastel-Minier is polymetallic production site settled in the Viscounty of Cous...
International audienceCastel-Minier is polymetallic production site settled in the Viscounty of Cous...
International audienceThe MINEDOR project aims to study from an interdisciplinary and diachronic poi...
International audienceThe Pyrenees and its margins contain numerous metallic resources which have be...
International audienceThe MINEDOR project aims to study from an interdisciplinary and diachronic poi...