Charcoal analysis in the A750-A75 motorway (Clermont l'Heìrault / Saint Andreì de Sangonis - Beìziers, southern France): a case-study in Preventive Archaeology

• Autores: Isabel Figueiral, Laurent Fabre, Christophe Tardy
• Localización: Saguntum: Papeles del Laboratorio de Arqueología de Valencia-Extra, ISSN 2253-7295, ISSN-e 2254-0512, Nº. Extra 13, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Wood and charcoal evidence for human and natural history), págs. 105-114
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The drawbacks and advantages of preventive archaeology and the implications for archaeobotanical studies are assessed based on the example of work carried out prior to the construction of the A 750 / A 75 motorway in southern France. Emphasis is given to the most significant charcoal analysis results obtained in sites destined to be rapidly destroyed. They provide a large scale insight on human settlement and land exploitation from the Middle Neolithic to the height of the Roman Empire.