Une pompe hydraulique romaine en bois en contexte d’incendie à Reims/Durocortorum by Cyril Driard

“…Firefighting is the most frequently cited use of the pump in ancient literature, but heretofore had never been documented by an archaeological discovery.The archaeological context of the discovery of Reims raises the question of possible equipment intended for firefighting. …”
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Le nivellement des aqueducs de Lyon et leurs aménagements de régulation et de ralentissement : analyse et mise en perspective by Laetitia Borau

“…The second chute is the only one to be archaeologically documented (Fage, 2000) and is located at Chevinay, where the aqueduct drops 87 m in altitude in 275 m, i.e. an overall slope of 32%. …”
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Les caves de Reims/Durocortorum à travers les exemples de la fouille du tramway by Magalie Cavé

“…They are either badly affected by recent disturbances, or located at the limit of the excavation area and very often merely a corner of their walls is present and documentable. We were therefore not able to determine the outline or total dimensions of each of the cellars, and it remains impossible to draft a complete typological list based on the available criteria. …”
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Contribution à l’histoire de la boulangerie romaine : étude de « pains/galettes » découverts en Gaule by Andreas G. Heiss, Véronique Matterne, Nicolas Monteix, Margaux Tillier, Camille Noûs

“…The demand for “ready-to-use” grains has sometimes been coupled with a demand for semi-processed ingredients: in Northern Gaul, we know of certain sites from the late La Tène period documenting milling activities largely exceeding the needs of their occupants, probably partly oriented towards the supply of ground or crushed products. …”
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Pierre et carrières dans la Saintonge antique : identification, usages et diffusion by Jacques Gaillard, Egle Conforto

“…If an archaeologically well-defined block is analysed using this method and its discriminatory characteristics relate to a quarry that is referenced, but whose original exploitation has not yet been documented, then it can be affirmed that this quarry was exploited in Antiquity. …”
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Les textiles dans les tombes gauloises à dépôt de crémation en vase métallique : usages pratiques, mises en scène et perspectives anthropologiques (seconde moitié du vie s.-ve s. a... by Elsa Desplanques

“…Gallic ossuaries are particularly well documented in this regard. Although the use of cloth in this context has been regularly attested to since the 19th c., particularly for Gallic and Rhenish sites, the description of this material remained brief and disparate. …”
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Le réseau hydraulique à Pompéi (Italie) de l’époque des Samnites à Auguste (fin ive-fin ier s. av. J.-C.) by Federico Giletti

“…The monumental appearance that, in some cases, frames and marks the outcropping of the deep wells, eloquently portrays the public utility function that these wells must have had in most of the attested cases.On the basis of the research, other types of cisterns in addition to water catchment wells have been identified in the earliest phases of the city of Pompeii, such as the tunnel cistern, a type that was widespread in various contexts in the ancient Tyrrhenian from the Archaic period onwards, and the so-called cylinder or bottle cistern, also evidenced in ancient times and archaeologically documented between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC in a number of Pompeian contexts. …”
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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…All procedures were accurately documented and re-examined at every stage of the research. …”
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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…Background: By their very nature, constitutions are intergenerational documents. With rare exceptions, they are meant to endure for many generations. …”
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Le camp légionnaire romain de Mayence/Mogontiacum (Allemagne) : nouveaux résultats sur l’enceinte et la chronologie by Daniel Burger-Völlmecke

“…Timber phase 2 of the earth-and-timber defensive circuit is the poorest documented of the archaeological features. On the new rear rampart, which had been moved forward, a new earth-and-timber rampart was constructed, the posts of which were also set into parallel running trenches. …”
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