The excavation of tomb IGN 117 in Madâ’in Sâlih, ancient Hegra, in Saudi Arabia, produced a large amount of bones, objects and materials (leather, fabric, fruit, wood, amorphous organic substances) of the Nabataean‐Roman period (first to early fourth century AD). Two pieces of fabric and leather are of particular interest because they contained pierced dates (Phoenix dactylifera) strung together using date‐palm leaflets. These exceptional discoveries are poorly attested in Near Eastern funerary contexts. Together with other data from Madâ’in Sâlih, the southern Near East and Egypt, this interdisciplinary analysis leads to the reconstruction of part of the funerary practices related to the preservation and preparation of the body that occurred in tomb IGN 117. Finally, the analysis allows the questioning of the symbolic role of plant jewellery and the date palm in a funerary context.
A stratigraphie unit very well grouped (showing well dated crockery coherent with quite a number of coins) in the beginning of the 5th century of our era was recently excavated in Arles. It is located precisely in the Esplanade district, south of the city, just outside the ramparts. Authors mainly present the ceramic material from a dumping ground which yielded a significant number of amphorae, most of which came from eastern imports.
Sur le site du Bastidon, l'occupation humaine, s'est faite dans un milieu marécageux subpermanent. Le sondage a mis en évidence, dans une zone en creux, un habitat caractérisé par un radier en pierres, une fosse, un foyer et de la céramique. Une activité de bronzier y est vraisemblablement associée. Le faciès céramique homogène et deux datations 14C placent ce site, unique dans le Var, dans le Bronze final IlIa.
L'étude de la faune de plusieurs villae romaines du département du Var permet de caractériser certains aspects de l'économie rurale en Provence. La conformation des animaux, les variations des classes d'âges, des espèces et des proportions d'animaux sauvages et domestiques montrent des différences significatives en fonction du niveau de richesse des occupants, de la taille des domaines et des productions agricoles (viticulture, oléiculture ou élevage).
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