Considering the development of the construction in the late Middle Ages, and the preference for the stone-built residences, new quarries are opened up around Alençon. In many cases, in an economic and/or profit perspective, the middle-class persons and lords let a part of their inheritances to building contractors who operate with it for themselves, in order to respond to the demand. In the circunstance of important and long-lasting site, the commanding-person appeals to skilled workers to extract the stones that need the masons. For the case where the transaction is only about suppiying architectural elements, or about civil building site, the contractor takes himself charge of the work in quarry: extraction and carving. Noting the non-exi...
The excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Moselle) revealed severa...
International audienceThe excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Mo...
The Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument which carried the water ...
Considering the development of the construction in the late Middle Ages, and the preference for the ...
The deposits of falun from the miocène in Doué la Fontaine (Maine et Loire, France) had been intense...
Quarry waste being used by craftsmen revealed the existence of ancient work faces, at the foot of wh...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
International audienceIn this paper, we want to discuss the complexity of the mechanisms of medieval...
By 1610, on abbot Jean Alibert’s initiative, Italian sculptors come to exploit the marble quarries o...
Mines and quarries are in Anjou under the dependance of geological structures of this province. Tech...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
International audienceWith the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon ex...
With the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon exploited in the Rhine a...
The excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Moselle) revealed severa...
International audienceThe excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Mo...
The Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument which carried the water ...
Considering the development of the construction in the late Middle Ages, and the preference for the ...
The deposits of falun from the miocène in Doué la Fontaine (Maine et Loire, France) had been intense...
Quarry waste being used by craftsmen revealed the existence of ancient work faces, at the foot of wh...
The stone of the Bois des Lens is a white and fine-grained limestone extracted in opencast quarries,...
International audienceIn this paper, we want to discuss the complexity of the mechanisms of medieval...
By 1610, on abbot Jean Alibert’s initiative, Italian sculptors come to exploit the marble quarries o...
Mines and quarries are in Anjou under the dependance of geological structures of this province. Tech...
International audienceThe Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument wh...
Quarries of North-Aquitaine in the middle ages. The investigation was conducted in the North-Aquit...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
International audienceWith the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon ex...
With the arrival of the Romans, a great number of ashlar quarries were soon exploited in the Rhine a...
The excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Moselle) revealed severa...
International audienceThe excavation of a Gallo-Roman hamlet at La Croix Guillaume (Saint-Quirin, Mo...
The Estel quarry provided most of the stone of the Pont du Gard, a monument which carried the water ...