Mining in the Pyrenean area between the 5th and 1st centuries BC

International audienceInvestigations realised during the last 15 years made it possible to highlight several mining areas dated in the second Iron Age in the whole Pyrenean region. If all the metals used during that period were available in different amounts at a regional scale, recent data specially contributed to renew the questions regarding silver production. The identity of the mining communities remains generally unknown to this date. We can however propose to link some of the mines to sub-regional areas of influence and to their commercial networks. The evolutions in the control of mining production after the Roman conquest is one of the current subjects of investigation