The economy of the stone is a most interdisciplinary field of research which raises very diverse problems. The present study is at the crossroads of geology and archaeology. The point is not to begin a new architectural or stylistic study of the low valley of the Loire between the Roman conquest and the Carolingian period, nor to launch into a thorough survey of the techniques of extraction or cutting, but rather to look into the way the local mineral resources were exploited and to examine the importing network of exogenous materials. This work aims on the one hand at drawing up an inventory of the Gallo-Roman and Merovingian quarries, and on the other hand at characterizing the different rocks employed on the built facilities and a wide r...
Stone is one of the main materials used in daily life objects and funerary furniture from the predyn...
National audienceThe site of Latrote (Saint-Gein), located atop an eminence on the right bank of the...
This work presents the results of the analysis of the lithic industry from a Badegoulian open air si...
The economy of the stone is a most interdisciplinary field of research which raises very diverse pro...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
National audienceThe architectural decoration of Nantes, the administrative center of the city-state...
The " pierre du Midi " in the roman towns of Lyon and Vienne : utilisation, chronology and origin. ...
The goal of this work is to understand the management of heavy stone tools, first from supply of the...
Stone tools are poorly recognized during the Iron Age, and this paper aims at showing their importan...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
Stone samples extract from the Antique Agglomeration of Barzan (Charente-Maritime) were analysed thr...
The use of stone in Normandy’s old rural buildings is not well documented. These uses vary widely fr...
Stone is one of the main materials used in daily life objects and funerary furniture from the predyn...
National audienceThe site of Latrote (Saint-Gein), located atop an eminence on the right bank of the...
This work presents the results of the analysis of the lithic industry from a Badegoulian open air si...
The economy of the stone is a most interdisciplinary field of research which raises very diverse pro...
La pierre, omniprésente dans la Gaule romaine, est paradoxalement peu étudiée et la plupart du temps...
National audienceThe architectural decoration of Nantes, the administrative center of the city-state...
The " pierre du Midi " in the roman towns of Lyon and Vienne : utilisation, chronology and origin. ...
The goal of this work is to understand the management of heavy stone tools, first from supply of the...
Stone tools are poorly recognized during the Iron Age, and this paper aims at showing their importan...
To the west of Nîmes, the fine lime deposit found in the Bois-des-Lens must have been mined at a ver...
Stone samples extract from the Antique Agglomeration of Barzan (Charente-Maritime) were analysed thr...
The use of stone in Normandy’s old rural buildings is not well documented. These uses vary widely fr...
Stone is one of the main materials used in daily life objects and funerary furniture from the predyn...
National audienceThe site of Latrote (Saint-Gein), located atop an eminence on the right bank of the...
This work presents the results of the analysis of the lithic industry from a Badegoulian open air si...