Une pompe hydraulique romaine en bois en contexte d’incendie à Reims/Durocortorum by Cyril Driard

“…A wooden water two-cylinder force pump was discovered in 2016 during a rescue archaeological excavation at 45 rue de Thillois in Reims. …”
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De l’utile et de l’agréable : un jardin romain chez les Pictons. La Viaube 1 à Jaunay-Clan (Vienne) by Gaëlle Lavoix, Frédéric Gerber, David Guitton

“…A preventive archaeological excavation realized in 2010 in Jaunay-Clan, near Poitiers (Vienne), revealed the existence of a large horticultural estate from the beginning of the 1st century AD, which surface is estimated at almost seven hectares. …”
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Les agglomérations / vici / castra du Centre-Est de la Gaule : morphologie et fonctions (iiie-viie s. apr. J.-C.) by Michel Kasprzyk

“…This paper describes a few towns of Central-Eastern Gaul where archaeological, literary, epigraphic, numismatic sources allow to detect the evolution of occupations from the early Empire and how new models appear along the 4th-6th c. …”
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"Breaking a Dog’s Neck" as a Metaphor for Oppressing the Weak. An Exegetical-Historical Analysis of the Expression ערף כלב (Isa 66:3) by Andrzej Łukasz Jędrzejczak

“…The exegesis of biblical texts, the examples cited from ancient Near Eastern literature, and the analysis of archaeological material indicate that this expression may have a different meaning from that hitherto accepted. …”
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La latéralité manuelle préhistorique, les outils et le langage by Natalie Uomini, John Gowlett

“…Why did human language evolve? We will present archaeological and palaeoanthropological data for right-handedness in hominins. …”
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Reconstrucción hipotética de la llegada a España del Códice Trocortesiano en el contexto de la Real Orden de 1752 by Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos

“…Both, the situation of this institution and the viceroy Revillagigedo’s family circustamces, would explain the route that the codex took until it reached the 6th Countess of Cancelada, who handed it over to Juan de Tro and José Ignacio Miró who, in turn, sold it to the National Archaeological Museum in 1872 and 1888.…”
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Preliminary report on human remains from Tell Masaikh and Tell Ashara. Season 2008 by Jacek Tomczyk

“…Initially, it was rescue excavation, but with time it became regular archaeological work. This paper is a summary of anthropological research conducted in 2008. …”
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Hercule, le lion et le cheval : les bronzes romains du puits 269 de Châteaumeillant/Mediolanum (Cher) by Sophie Krausz, Gérard Coulon

“…Amongst these, four exceptional bronze objects were discovered an oinochoe (wine jug) with a trefoil spout, the front part of a chest, a horse’s head featuring a long pouring spout and a solid bronze lion with silver-incrusted eyes. Although their archaeological studies aren’t completed yet, this paper presents a preliminary examination of these four bronze objects and our first hypotheses about them.…”
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Le sarcophage de pierre du haut Moyen Âge, des critères pour une étude by Fabrice Henrion

“…Thus, by considering the whole of its history, from its quarry of origin to the necropolis, cemetery or place of worship that finally received it, it is now possible to place any specimen, whole or fragmentary, within an archaeologically established typology and chronology. While the decoration had to be put aside during the elaboration of the typological and chronological classification method, we naturally returned to it, through the prism of previous studies and the contribution of new data.…”
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Les insectes du quartier portuaire romain de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) : premiers résultats de l’étude archéoentomologique by David Pécréaux, Aurélia Borvon

“…After extraction, the insect fragments provide information that complements the archaeological data. Many insects linked to the storage of foodstuffs, such as Sitophilus granarius, the wheat calandra or Bruchus sp., can be found. …”
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Les bâtiments de l’abbaye de Cîteaux : bilan et nouvelles données issues des sources comptables, xiie-xve siècle by Coraline Rey

“…First of all, we propose to take stock of our knowledge of the medieval buildings by re-examining the archaeological, iconographic and charter data. Then we evoke the new information brought by our rereading of sources usually little studied, such as the account books, the catalogue of manuscripts drawn up in 1480-1482 or the prefaces of cartulary. …”
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Nouvelles perspectives sur les Cañaris d’hier et d’aujourd’hui : la céramique des Andes méridionales de l’Équateur de 100 av. J.-C. jusqu’à nos jours by Catherine Lara

“…They claim to be the descendants of the homonym group which—according to archaeological data—inhabited the same territory between at least 100 BC and the arrival of the Incas and Spaniards between the xv and xvi centuries AD. …”
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Le port antique de Saintes/Mediolanum (Charente-Maritime) by Jean-Philippe Baigl, Adrien Camus, Olivier Dayrens, Vincent Lebaron, Jonathan Letuppe, Vivien Mathé

“…Based on a diversified and collective approach, this contribution provides an overview of the main archaeological operations carried out recently which yielded information about the existence of potential ancient port infrastructures and activities. …”
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Time-of-Flight Neutron Diffraction (TOF-ND) Analyses of the Composition and Minting of Ancient Judaean “Biblical” Coins by Stephen E. Nagler, Alexandru D. Stoica, Grigoreta M. Stoica, Ke An, Harley D. Skorpenske, Orlando Rios, David B. Hendin, Nathan W. Bower

“…TOF-ND elastic scattering of thermal neutrons offers some important advantages over X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and metallography for the study of archaeological and numismatic problems. Traditional analytical methods are usually destructive and often probe only the surface. …”
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The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface by Jane MacLaren Walsh

“…Some of the earliest and most revered pre-Columbian artifacts in the world’s major museum and private collections were collected prior to the advent of systematic, scientific archaeological excavation, and have little or no reliable provenience data. …”
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De l’interprétation des liens entre vivants et morts dans l’espace habité maya Classique by Hemmamuthé Goudiaby

“…Ancient Mayan funerary practices were closely associated with the habitats in which the dead were buried and they obeyed a spatial codification that still echoes among their descendants to this day. By associating archaeological observations and ethnographical data, it becomes possible to partially restore the place of the dead in a funerary hierarchy of greater subtlety than the sometimes omnipresent figure of the "ancestor" tends to suggest.…”
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Intercultural Dialogues About Ancestral Territories in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina by Mirta Fabiana Millán, María Gabriela Chaparro, Mercedes Mariano

“…For this purpose, we chose three archaeological sites that have been systematically analyzed and studied by researchers, to rethink them as ancient territories, which from the kimun (knowledge) of the Mapuche people, make other logics about space and time possible. …”
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Productions, commerces et consommation du fer dans le Sud de la Gaule de la Protohistoire à la domination romaine by Gaspard Pagès

“…Here, we’ll discuss the role the Gallic heritage and the Roman colonization played in the first developments of ironwork industry in mediterranean Gaul by a critical assessment based on the available archaeological documentation. Our reasoning goes from the appearance of the first iron objects in the 8th-7th c. …”
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Conquête d’un milieu, adaptation à une multitude de réalités : l’exemple de la conquête romaine des espaces oasiens égyptiens by Evelyne Ferron

“…Even if the Western desert of Egypt is considered one of the most hyper-arid in the world, five oases are nonetheless inhabitable, even though they are situated far from the Nile Valley. The archaeological diggings started late in this area, but because of the quantity of artefacts and documents available for the Roman period, it allows now historians specialised in Roman history to study the oases during Roman occupation. …”
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A cozinha e a mesa em Loulé medieval nos seus utensílios de uso comum: o testemunho dos Inventários de Órfãos by Iria Gonçalves

“…Not forgetting the nature and limits of the written records, but combining their reports with archaeological and ethnographical data, a fairly coherent picture was obtained, with observations on the social significance of the shortage of equipments in certain households, or on the distinction denounced by the quality and rarity of some other kitchenware.…”
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