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Iron smelting and environment in Togo : Strategy of natural resources exploitation in traditional iron production (the Bassar region, Togo) – SIDERENT
Since prehistoric times, humans have exploited the Earth’s resources in order to satisfy their needs. However, the invention of iron metallurgy still amplified the interactions between human societies and their environment. Because of its thermo-mechanical properties iron revolutionized both warfare
The Touat at the crossroads of the Sahara (thirteenth to eighteenth centuries) : sources, spaces and circulations – Touat
The Touat is an area situated in the southwestern Algerian Sahara. It is at first sight little suited to human settlement, underground water tables have made possible the development of often fortified towns called ksour. From XIIIth c. onward, trans-Saharan routes from North Africa to first the Mal
Creating tools in order to develop the digital exploration of Hispanic manuscripts. – CHispa
The CHispa project aims at creating tools in order to develop the digital exploration of Hispanic manuscripts. From the archives of the Spanish writer José Mora Guarnido (1894-1967) and the Uruguayan playwright Carlos Denis Molina (1916-1983), we aim at combining the action of preservation and prote
Living Together: Society and urbanism of an antique City of Italy. – VESUVIA
The case of Herculaneum (in Southern Italy) is in this respect a «laboratory« to investigate. Since it disappeared during the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 AD, which also buried Pompeii, this ancient city has been relatively spared from archaeological and historical studies in favor of its famous n
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) experimental domestication: functional and ontogenetic approach of limb bone development in captive conditions – DOMEXP
All the morphological markers that zooarchaeologists use to decipher the domestication signal in animal bones are considered to be genetically controlled. These morphological markers rely on the reduction in body size in addition to an array of so called paedomorphic traits (change in the facial str
Merchant relationships in practice (18th-19th centuries): from the personal to the impersonal? – Fiduciae
The project FIDUCIAE aims at providing a formalized and quantified discussion of the hypothesis that relationships between merchants in France and Europe became less and less personal in the 18th and 19th centuries. This discussion will be based on a precise and systematic empirical investigation in