Les sarcophages de plâtre d’Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) : un enrichissement de la chrono-typologie funéraire régionale by Sacha Kacki, François Capron

“…The discovery made in Allonnes enriches the archaeological knowledge about the diversity of the early medieval funerary practices in this geographic area.…”
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Pseudo 3D Imaging of Dielectric and Magnetic Anomalies from GPR Data by Raffaele Persico, Sergio Negri, Francesco Soldovieri, Elena Pettinelli

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Water as a social border in Ancient Egypt by Heidi Köpp-Junk

“…The article presents the archaeological evidence for bathrooms in palaces and elite dwellings, discusses the social implications of water and its use in pharaonic Egypt and tackles the question: is water in principle a boundary between social classes in ancient Egypt, or only evidenced in relation to bathrooms?…”
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Pre-war photographic negatives in the collection of the Bakhchisarai Museum–Reserve: objects and expositions of the Khan’s Palace in the 1920s–1930s by Sevilya Velieva

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Vingt années de recherches à Oedenburg (Biesheim et Kunheim, Haut-Rhin) : un bilan by Michel Reddé

“…The Roman archaeological site of Oedenburg (Biesheim et Kunheim, Upper-Rhine) was explored by a French, German and Swiss team from 1998 to 2012 and three successive monographs were published in the Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz. …”
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Divergent patterns in Indian Ocean trade to East Africa and southern Africa between the 7th and 17th centuries CE: The glass bead evidence by Marilee Wood

“…Glass beads form a large part of archaeological evidence attesting to Indian Ocean trade with eastern Africa between the 7th and 17th century CE, but they have generally been under-utilized by archaeologists in their efforts to understand and interpret that trade. …”
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Une trompe romaine (tuba) à Brie-Comte-Robert (Seine-et-Marne) ? by Cyril Driard, Fabien Pilon

“…Although fragmentary and allowing only a modest contribution to music instruments history, these two objects, discovered at Brie-Comte-Robert, are probably the pieces of the fourth copy of this type of musical instrument, ultimately more known by iconography, than archaeological material.…”
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Burial customs, the afterlife and the pollution of death in ancient Greece by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The sources consulted include Homer's epic poems, archaeological data and vase paintings, as well as the writings of later historians, philosophers and other prominent people. …”
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Processus de (re)territorialisation de l’héritage colonial by Romeo Carabelli

“…After questioning the appropriateness of imagining built heritage as a kind of actor able to catalyse the imaginary to interact with the surrounding space and society, the text sets out the two heritagization processes of these towns re-planned at the end of the twentieth century, recovering the archaeological sites with private and public strategies.…”
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Deux occupations rurales de La Tène ancienne à Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, Les Chauffeaux (Indre-et-Loire) by Francesca Di Napoli, Dorothée Lusson

“…The second occupation corresponds to La Tène B, that is the 4th and the beginning of the 3th century BC; it consists of a small battery of silos and of some buildings on posts. The analysis of archaeological material makes it possible to suggest a chronological and environmental frame in these two open establishments. …”
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À propos d’une production céramique indigène dite matt-painted dans le cadre de l’Italie méridionale protohistorique by Clément Bellamy

“….), we will read Incoronata’s archaeological contexts thanks to the contributions of multidisciplinarity, from concepts developed within anthropological sciences to technological analyzes. …”
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New insights into the Mesolithic and Neolithic layers of the Darkveti rock shelter in the Imereti Region, Western Georgia by Guram Chkhatarashvili, Nikoloz Tskvitinidze, Nikoloz Tsikaridze, James A. Davenport, Michael D. Glascock

“…The primary objective is to precisely date the cultural layers belonging to the Mesolithic and Neolithic epochs using absolute dating methods. By combining archaeological evidence with palaeontological, geoarchaeological, and palaeobotanical data, this study aims to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment and subsistence strategies of the Darkveti inhabitants. …”
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Le développement de la viticulture antique dans le bassin versant de la Loire à l’époque romaine (Gaule centrale) et la question de la vigne biturica by Alain Ferdière

“…This is what we propose to examine here in detail – from the origins to the 6th-7th centuries – for this set of cities concerned, scrutinized one by one, by mobilizing all the documentation through, in turn, textual, iconographic and archaeological data of all kinds, from the facilities assigned to this production to archaeo-botanical data, whose relative heuristic value will be weighed. …”
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Un nouvel habitat du Bronze final IIIb dans le Val d’Orléans et ses traces de métallurgie du fer : Bonnée, Les Terres à l’Est du Bourg (Centre, Loiret) by Stéphane Joly, Florent Mercey, Anne Filippini, Valérie Abenzoar, Morgane Liard, Frédéric Poupon

“…The recent increase in the archaeological evaluations around the village of Bonnée has enabled the discovery of a final Bronze Age IIIb settlement (circa 900-750 BP) on about a hectare of the Terres à l’Est du Bourg. …”
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Un habitat groupé antérieur au xiie siècle préservé sous forêt : le site de Goa (Val-Suzon, Côte-d’Or) by Rémi Landois, Jean-Pierre Garcia, Amélie Quiquerez

“…These have been the subject of archaeological surveys and archival research. Through the confrontation and discussion of these data, the age and function of several structures could be determined. …”
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Metz/Divodurum, cité des Médiomatriques : apport de deux fouilles récentes (place de la République et rue Paille-Maille) à la question des origines by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Christian Dreier, Sandrine Marquié

“…In order to arrive at this, the literary sources and the results of urban archaeological excavations are used. The main research in the urban centre will be described, following a chronological and topographical rationale (Haut de Sainte-Croix hill, Citadelle hill, Outre-Seille area, Pontiffroy). …”
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La volaille en région Centre-Val de Loire du Néolithique à nos jours. Approche archéozoologique by Colin Duval, Grégory Bayle, Séverine Braguier, Olivier Cotté, Alexandre Fontaine, Chloé Genies, Frédéric Poupon, Julie Rivière, Marilyne Salin, Marie-Pierre Horard-Herbin

“…The information gathered concerns 282 archaeological sites and covers a period from Prehistory to the present day. …”
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The Gift of the « Face of the Living »: Shell faces as social valuables in the Caribbean Late Ceramic Age by Angus A. A. Mol

“…After treating their iconography and giving an overview of their archaeological and socio-cultural contexts the discussion will focus on alienable and inalienable qualities of these artefacts. …”
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« Adieu veau, vache, cochon, couvée… » La boucherie à l’Ancien Empire : croisement des données iconographiques, textuelles et archéologiques by Fanny Hamonic

“…It will thus be a question of analysing all the available data, be they textual, archaeological or iconographic, in order to better understand the actors, tools, places, techniques and symbolic scope of the slaughtering of an animal to be butchered in the Old Kingdom.…”
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The rescue of a medieval, painted tabernacle from Marianka Pasłęcka, north Poland by Natalia Gruszczyk

“…The effects of that are – among others – gunshot holes on the painted Man of Sorrows on the door, his extremely damaged face and almost archaeological condition of the oak wood. The aim of treatment was to stop the process of damage and enable the tabernacle to continue fulfilling its functions while preserving its historic and artistic values.…”
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