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Archéopages 20 - Birth of cities

To base itself on archaeology in order to rethink our ways of living together in one environment: Such is the editorial line of Archéopages, a scientific journal with a review panel. Each issue develops a specific theme by crossing the points of view of archaeologists of all backgrounds and those of other researchers in human sciences, thus taking stock of the recent contributions of archaeology to the knowledge of societies. A large space is also devoted to modern methods of archaeology. The journal is aimed at researchers, students and enlightened amateurs.
The perception of the roles or status of certain urban areas is one of the great advances of the last twenty years. It was certainly made possible by the renewal of excavation techniques, but above all thanks to a change of approach on what makes a city a city. It is a matter of distinguishing the prerequisites that lead a society to produce the particular phenomenon of urbanization.

Editorial
Jean-Paul Demoule
File: Birth of cities
Oppida. Consensus on a heterogeneous phenomenon
Vincent Guichard
Box : Bibracte
The first towns in Mediterranean France. Stabilization and redeployment of populations
Thierry Janin
Greek Marseilles. Discovery of new emblematic remains
Philippe Mellinand, Bernard Sillano, Nicolas Weydert, Henri Tréziny
Vesontio. From oppidum to capital city
Laurent Vaxelaire, Philippe Barral
The civitas administrative centres of the Armorican Peninsula. Condate, Darioritum, Fanum Martis, and Vorgium: four towns imitating the Roman model
Gaëtan Le Cloirec, Dominique Pouille
Ancient Quimper-Locmaria : origin and chronology yet to be fully elucidated
Jean-Paul Le Bihan
A fresh look at the foundations of Toulouse (Tolosa) Combining archaeological and geomorphological data
Jean-Charles Arramond, Jean-Luc Boudartchouk, Laurent Bruxelles, Christophe Requi
Town-related words in Roman antiquity. A bit of Latin...
Jean-Luc Boudartchouk
Debate - Urbanization: a state of mind?
Christian Goudineau, Jean-Louis Huot
Practical
Sifting through archaeology : Applying systematic sieving to the site of Aube Logistics Park
Julien Grisard, Alain Koelher, Vincent Riquier
News
A new La Hueca style site in Basse-Terre
Thomas Romon
Discovery of two Merovingian plaques with Christian figuration in Franche-Comté
David Billoin, Henri Gaillard de Sémainville
The philippine tower of the castle of Nantes
Jérôme Pascal
Revue « Archéopages : archéologie & société », 20
October 2007
Size 22 x 27,5 cm
88 pages
ISSN: 1622-8545
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