Article dans acte de colloqueMethodological approaches that allow the characterization of environmental and climatic changes on complementary tem-poral and geographical scales are essential in the study of the response of ancient societies to changes in their environment.Here, through the combining taxonomic and isotopic (δ13 C) analysis of archaeological charcoal from the Mesolithic site of La Baume de Monthiver (Var, France) with sub-stratigraphic sampling, we highlight the potential of this method to provide a highly sensitive proxy for long-term environmental trends as well as more rapid climatic episodes. Thus, we observe at the site: (i) the general taxonomic composition of the tree co...