La porte de la wak’a de Potosi s’est ouverte à l’enfer. La Quebrada de San Bartolomé by Pascale Absi, Pablo Cruz

“…The cross reading of ethnographic data, archaeological information and historical documents make it possible to reconstruct some stages in the evolution of the site’s meaning and its relation with Cerro Rico, from prehispanic times to present day. …”
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Río Bec. Des grandes maisons et des récoltes by Marie-Charlotte Arnauld, Dominique Michelet, Chloé Andrieu, Alfonso Lacadena, Éva Lemonnier, Boris Vannière, Philippe Nondédéo, Julie Patrois

“…In the Río Bec region, archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic data indicate that kingship has been weakly articulated from AD 550 to 950. …”
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Rethinking the researcher-researched relationship by Lauren Eva Dyll, Keyan Tomaselli

“…The orthodoxy of objectivity – claimed to locate the researchers as neutral observer – is here argued to be a power relation that has an excluding effect where subject communities are concerned. By means of an archaeological case study that included mapping and interpretation of ancient rock engravings we offer a new way of negotiating interpretations. …”
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Archéologie du bâti par méthode géoradar : le cas de la basilique Saint-Seurin de Bordeaux by Anne Michel, Jean-François Lataste

“…It developed from a mausoleum of Late Antiquity, whose masonry was integrated into a crypt beneath the nave of the church. During an archaeological operation conducted there in 2015, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) investigations were carried out on the walls of the thick masonry of the chapels located in the crypt and on the floor of the church, in the nave and in the choir. …”
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Pukara de los wak’a. Cerros, muros concéntricos y divinidades tutelares en el altiplano centro-sur andino by Pablo Cruz, Richard Joffre

“…Articulating new archaeological data with historical and ethnographic information, this paper presents and analyzes different aspects of these ceremonial spaces in the Andean highlands.…”
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The Chronology of the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic Period in Retrospect by Ofer Bar-Yosef, Liliane Meignen

“…The aim of this paper is to explore in retrospect the various proposals for dating the archaeological deposits in which human fossils have been recovered. …”
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Le cerf chez les anciens P’urhépecha du Michoacan (Mexique) : guerre, chasse et sacrifice by Brigitte Faugère

“…The study of the place of deers in the Relación de Michoacán and in archaeological remains shows the importance of this animal in ancient Pur’hépecha’s mythology. …”
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S’approprier un modèle français en Iran ? L’architecte André Godard (1881-1965) et la conception des musées iraniens by Sarah Piram

“…The history of museums in Iran began in the second half of the nineteenth century and experienced its most significant phase in the 1930s, when the Mūze-ye Irān-e Bāstān, the national archaeological museum designed by the French architect André Godard (1881–1965), was inaugurated. …”
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Des traces d’artisanat dans les monastères comtois du haut Moyen Âge by Sébastien Bully, Aurélia Bully, Inès Pactat (contribution)

“…Despite the substantial amount of archaeological research carried out on Early Medieval monasteries in Franche-Comté over recent years, the reality of artisanal production within these establishments remains difficult to clarify, given the lack of any substantial material remains. …”
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Coexistence, contacts and conflicts in the precordillera of Tacna during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100-1450) by Romuald Housse

“…However, this scheme, mostly based upon ethnohistorical data, appears to be at odds with several lines of archaeological evidence and with the wider emphases on conflict during the Late Intermediate Period (LIP). …”
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Enrochements et regard sur l’aqueduc de la Brévenne à Dardilly, chemin du Combert (Métropole de Lyon) by Sylvain Motte, Cécile Ramponi

“…Two archaeological operations, 50 m apart, conducted at Dardilly (France), provided new data on the a Brévenne aqueduct with the discovery of two sizeable platforms of large slabs, one of them combined with a manhole. …”
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Toulouse/Tolosa, cité des Tolosates et Auch/Elimberris, cité des Ausques : des centres de pouvoir indigènes aux capitales romaines by Philippe Gardes

“…Recent archaeological research permits us to investigate the circumstances of the birth of two civitas-capitals in south-western Gaul: Toulouse and Auch. …”
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Saintes/Mediolanum, cité des Santons et Bordeaux/Burdigala, cité des Bituriges Vivisques : destins croisés by Louis Maurin, Alain Bouet, Eneko Hiriart, Guilhem Landreau, Christophe Sireix, Dominique Tardy

“…For a quarter-century archaeological and numismatic research has led us to believe that at the time of the outbreak of the Gallic War their histories were linked, something apparently confirmed by some interpretations of Caesar’s silences about the causes of his conflict with the Helvetii. …”
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Entre Mochica et Lambayeque : retracer les identités de la période Transitionnelle dans les empreintes du quotidien by Sâm Ghavami

“…This article proposes to assess the nature of the relationships that the archaeological sites of San José de Moro and Huaca Bandera would have maintained during the Transitional Period, through a comparative analysis of domestic ceramics. …”
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Malnutrition infantile à la fin de la période laténienne : l’apport de l’examen paléopathologique de la nécropole de Jort (Calvados, Normandie, France) by Frédéric Boursier, Raphaëlle Lefebvre, Denis Bougault, Cécile Chapelain de Séreville-Niel, Dominique Corde, Vincent Carpentier

“…The two archaeological campaigns to excavate the Jort necropolis (Calvados, France), dating to the La Tène D period, revealed a site of exceptional interest for the large number of immature individuals, of which the majority was under five years old. …”
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Le coton à El Deir by Fleur Letellier-Willemin

“…The presence of cotton in el-Deir (Kharga oasis, Egyptian Western desert) is a recent archaeological discovery, mainly of funerary origin. Despite its relative rarity, cotton and its study show the existence of different textile categories, distinguished by varied degrees of quality and diverse usages. …”
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La population Chasséenne du gisement du Crès (Hérault): caractéristiques métriques et anatomiques by Aurore Schmitt

“…The  archaeological  settlement  of  the  Crès  (Hérault),  dating  to  the  ancient  Chassean,  produced  49  individuals (27 adults and 22 immature subjects). …”
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Réflexions sur un « style ethnique » : la céramique kali’na du littoral oriental des Guyanes by Gérard Collomb

“…Can ceramic styles characterization make it possible to establish a continuity between the archaeological cultures closest to the Contact and the current people on the Eastern coast of the Guyanas? …”
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A invenção do patrimônio: memória e identidade no tombamento de São Luiz do Paraitinga como patrimônio nacional by Daniel Messias dos Santos, André Luiz da Silva

“…The aim is to foster debate on heritage on the basis of decisions made by bodies such as the Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) and the Council for the Defense of the Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Touristic Heritage (CONDEPHAAT) and by the community of São Luiz do Paraitinga during the reconstruction of the historic city, after the 2010 flood that destroyed much of the architectural ensemble of the city. …”
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Preliminary report on human remains from Qasr Shemamok (Erbil, Federal region of Iraqi Kurdystan). Season 2012 by Jacek Tomczyk

“…In 2012, a French archaeological Mission, guided by O. Rouault with a European team, and funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, came to work in Erbil, answering an invitation from the Kurdish authorities, and from the Erbil Salaheddin University, thanks to the strong support of the local French Consulate. …”
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