A database integrating fossil fluvial records of ten or so river courses was established at the upper Rhone basin scale between Aoste (38) and Lyon (69), a 100 km long section containing 112 sites of geoarchaeological investigation. It was based on a preliminary coding of fluvial environment taking into account in simultaneous ways fluvial styles, the energy of liquid and solid flows and the active pedosedimentary dynamics of floodplains (accretion rate, pedogenesis, peat formation rate...). Statistical analysis of 272 radiocarbon and chronocultural dates available for the last fifteen millenniums allows to build a palaeohydrological reference framework, constituted of 32 major phases. We explained the abundance of documentation collected s...