Témoignages de la Guerre des Gaules dans le bassin clermontois, nouveaux apports by Yann Deberge, François Baucheron, Ulysse Cabezuelo, Pierre Caillat, Esther Gatto, Christophe Landry, Daniel Leguet, Jean-François Pasty, Thomas Pertlweiser, Christine Vermeulen, Gérard Vernet

“…An expert mission conducted in the mid-1990s has enabled the validation of the layout of some of the fortifications as were described in research at the end of the Second Empire.The proliferation of archaeological work in this area of the Clermont bassin has enabled us to specify the route of Caesar’s military configuration set up in front of Gergovia in 52 BC.The discovery of new property remains (ditches, human burials and horse burials, sections of track) and home furnishings (late-Republican militaria) makes it possible to better understand the influence of the battlefield and lead to the formulation of new hypotheses about the course of the siege of the oppidum.…”
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Une fosse du Bronze final IIb dans le Val d’Orléans à Sandillon (Loiret) : données archéologiques et contexte environnemental by Hélène Froquet, Cyril Castanet, Stéphane Joly, Bénédicte Pradat

“…An archaeological diagnostic carried out in 2004 at Sandillon (Loiret) enabled the discovery of a final Bronze Age IIb occupation in the alluvial Loire valley. …”
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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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Terrecotte votive da Taranto. Un tentativo di contestualizzazione di materiali sequestrati by Irene Managlia

“…The amount of votive terracottas yielded by ritual contexts in Magna Graecia have been increased by seized archaeological objects which have yet lost part of their informative power. …”
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Middle Paleolithic surface finds on the northern coast of the Taganrog Bay by Kolesnik A.V., Danilchenko A.Yu., Zorov Yu.N., Titov V.V., Gavrilov K.N.

“…A recommendation was made on the organization of a targeted program for monitoring the state of archaeological heritage sites in the coastal zone of the Sea of Azov.…”
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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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Gallo-Roman Terracottas at the Musée archéologique de l’Oise by Adrien Bossard

“…Eighty terracotta figurines from the 2013 discovery at Vendeuil-Caply are exhibited for the first time in the Musée archéologique de l’Oise, located near the archaeological site of Vendeuil-Caply. This exhibition Figures de la terre (fig. 1), which runs until November 2015, is the result of a collaboration with 11 French museums and presents in total more than 100 objects that explore the typological variety and the aesthetic character of the Gallo-Roman figurines of northern Gaul. …”
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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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Déols, places Carnot et La Fayette : mutation fonctionnelle d’un espace, entre cimetière paroissial et place, du Xe au XIXe siècle (Indre) by Gwenaël Roy, Françoise Yvernault

“…Archaeological observations carried out in 2010 before the redevelopment of the Carnot and La Fayette’s squares in Déols (Indre) have allowed the exploration of nearly 13,000 m² in the city center. …”
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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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Les ouvrages de franchissement des aqueducs antiques de Bourges by Marianne Surgent

“…An abundant documentation old and resulting from recent archaeological excavations testifies nevertheless to their presence and illustrates their modes of construction. …”
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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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