<jats:p>Terraced agroecosystems (TAS)—apart from being an important cultural heritage element—are considered vital for sustainable water resource management and climate change adaptation measures. However, this traditional form of agriculture, with direct implications i...

Evidence for specialised bone tools has recently been reported for the Middle Stone Age of North Africa [one], which complements similar finds of slightly younger age in South Africa [two, three]. However, until now scant reference has been made to lesser known tools al...

<jats:p>The objective of this study is to conduct a mineralogical and chemical characterization of the mortars Roman archaeological site of Volubilis to rebuild spare mortars for restoration. We take samples of mortar, broken tile palate garden, and pavement mosaic Fala...

International audience; The present work is focused on spectroscopic study of four samples of Argan wooden artifact pertaining to the 17 th , 18 th , 20 th and 21 st centuries. The objective is to characterize their unknown structures by the study of their non degraded ...

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Les corpus hagiographiques du Moyen Age offrent un catalogue impressionant de maladies car Dieu met les fidèles à l'épreuve en les accablant de maux spectaculaires, signes visibles qui marquent l'élection spirituelle. Le saint est, quant à lui, en pérpétuelle lutte avec...

The question of cognitive complexity in early Homo sapiens in North Africa is intimately tied to the emergence of the Aterian culture (~145 ka). One of the diagnostic indicators of cognitive complexity is the presence of specialised bone tools, however significant uncer...

Recent years have seen increasing interest in the study of Oldowan technological variability, and the observed inter-assemblage diversity has been attributed to a number of causes, including raw material availability, different hominin species, and cultural and diachron...

<jats:p>Throughout the last decades, many authors have published empirical correlations between rock mass classification systems that have arisen from a series of measurements and observations with the special conditions of the work site; this means that the validity of...

International audience; The archaeological site of Rajal del Gorp is located in asinkhole in the Causse du Larzac (785 m alt.). The cave was inhabited from the Mesolithic (earliest occupation dated to the VII-VI Millennia B.C.) up to the late Antiquity (IVth century A.D...