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Archéopages 22 - Mines and quarries

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.
There are various similarities between mining archaeologists and geologists. They relate at the same time to the methodological aspects, the strong relationship that these disciplines have with time, their sensitivity to economic and social problems, and their reflection on sites of various scales, from landscape to vein. Indeed, both seek to answer the same question: why and how to exploit one deposit rather than another?

Editorial
Jean-Paul Jacob
File: Mines and quarries
Producing for oneself or for others. The role of mines and quarries in Neolithic socio-economic organization
Françoise Bostyn
Box: First data on the "flint" of Ri/Rônai - Cyril Marcigny
The quarries of the La Serre Massif (Jura, France). Seven thousand years of using abrasive stone
Luc Jaccottey, Annabelle Milleville (collab.)
The origins of mining in the Western Pyrenees. Digging for copper, iron, gold and silver
Argitxu Beyrie, Éric Kammenthaler
Box: Extraction and exploitation of iron on the ancient site of Larla - Argitxu Beyrie
Fire-setting, an ancestral mining technique
Bruno Ancel, Vanessa Py
Box: Archeological experimentation: finding a know-how to burn
Evolution of the techniques of mining rock in the Vosges during the 16th to 18th centuries. Methodology and results
Francis Pierre
Excavating the ground. Practices and knowledge of the miner, the quarrier… and the underground archaeologist
Danielle Arribet-Deroin
Debate - Extractive industries: from power to autarky
Jean-Paul Deroin, Paul Benoît
Practical
Archaeomalacology. The study of molluscan remains and its contribution to the interpretation of an archaeological site
Catherine Dupont, Chloé Martin, Nathalie Serrand
News
Gaulish rural elites between Sénon and Parisii territories
Jean Bruant
The fortress revealed of Roc'h Morvan
Jocelyn Martineau
Revue « Archéopages : archéologie & société », 22
July 2008
Size 22 x 27,5 cm
88 pages
ISSN: 1622-8545
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Catherine Chauveau
Cultural Development and Communication Department, Inrap
Editor in Chief
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catherine.chauveau [at] inrap.fr