Franchthi Cave, bordering Kiladha Bay, in Greece, is a key archaeological site, due to its long occupation time, from * 40,000 to * 5000 year BP. To date, no clear evidence of Neolithic human dwellings in the cave was found, supporting the assumption that Neolithic people may have built a village where there is now Kiladha Bay. During the Neolithic period/Early Holocene, wide areas of the bay were indeed emerged above sea level. Bathymetric and seismic data identified a terrace incised by a valley in * 1 to 2 m sediment depth. Eight sediment cores, up to 6.3-m-long, were retrieved and analysed using petrophysical, sedimentological, geochemical, and chronostratigraphic methods. The longest core extends into the exposure surface, consisting of a layer of carbonate rubble in a finer matrix, representing weathering processes. Dated organic remains place this unit at * 8500 cal year BP. It is overlain by stiff silty mud representing an estuarine environment. This mud is capped by reduced sediments with roots marking an exposure surface. A shell-layer, dated to * 6300 cal year BP, overlies this terrestrial sequence, reflecting the marine transgression. This layer occurs at 10.8 mbsl, 7.7 m deeper than the global sea level at that time, suggesting tectonic subsidence in the area. It is overlain by finer-grained marine carbonate-rich sediments. The top of the core shows traces of eutrophication, pebbles and marine shells, all likely a result of modern anthropogenic processes. These results are interpreted in the context of human occupation: the exposed surface contains pottery sherds, one dating to the Early to Middle Neolithic period, indicating that Neolithic people were present in this dynamic landscape interacting with a migrating coastline. Even if the artefacts are isolated, future investigations of the submerged landscape off Franchthi Cave might lead to the discovery of a Neolithic village, which eventually became buried under marine sediments.
Lucien Coche nous a quittés le 23 juillet, au terme d'une vie exceptionnellement active et efficace. Les études et la guerreIl est né le 9 mars 1918 à Viroflay. Son père était au front pour quelques mois encore, avant de reprendre son métier d'avocat à la cour.En 1936 il n'avait que 18 ans quand il a été reçu major à Polytechnique. Un résultat qui ne devait rien au hasard : en sciences comme en lettres, ses dons étaient évidents. Rue Descartes, il a appré-cié particulièrement deux professeurs : LeprinceRinguet, encore tout jeune, et qui dépoussiérait dans l'enthousiasme la vieille physique traditionnelle, et Truffaut dont le cours d'histoire analysait pertinemment la montée du nazisme et ses consé-quences prévisibles. La guerre serait inévitable ; il fallait s'y préparer.Et c'est ce que fait sa promotion au sortir de l'École. La suite éventuelle des études, l'École des Mines pour lui, sera pour plus tard. Artilleur, il va faire ses classes à Fontainebleau, avant de rejoindre le 15 e Régiment d'artillerie stationné dans le nord et d'y rester pendant la « drôle de guerre », en attendant un choc inévitable.Correctement équipé de 75 tractés par des véhicules tout terrain, mais pratiquement dépourvu de moyens de défense anti-aérienne, le régiment pénètre en Belgique le 10 mai 1940, et doit ensuite se replier sur des positions successives jusqu'à Dunkerque, où il capitule le 3 juin après un dernier tir d'arrêt et après avoir détruit les armes qui lui res taient.Et c'est la captivité dans un Offlag de Poméranie. Hostile à l'inactivité stérile, Lucien Coche utilise ses loisirs forcés à étudier la mécanique quantique avec des documents envoyés de France. En mai 1941, heureuse surprise, il est libéré avec les prisonniers dont le métier est la mine, et l'administration française, pour une fois bien inspirée, a classé comme tels les élèves des Écoles des Mines, y compris ceux qui, comme lui, n'y ont pas encore mis les pieds.Le voici libre, dans la mesure où l'on est libre dans un pays occupé. Il se marie en août et rejoint l'École des Mines en octobre.
The nurse already appears in the Odyssey as a key character in Greek family life, showing all the characteristics that will remain hers throughout Greek Antiquity: she is a slave and has been working in her master's house before the child's birth; she has been chosen specially for the task of nursing and rearing the newborn, as she attends the delivery and is the first one to take the baby in her arms; later on, she takes care of the general education of the child and follows her "protégé" in his/her adult life; sometimes, she carries out the same tasks for her protégé's children. While recent research has often focused on her servile status, basing its arguments mostly on literature, this paper is based on iconography. The Greek nurse has the peculiarity of being very often represented as an old woman, even in the company of small children. The analysis of the context of representations of the trophos and of their chronological evolution allows us to reach a conclusion about this peculiar feature that goes beyond a realistic interpretation or a simple "caricature". The old age shown by the Greek trophos, and the Greek paidagogos also, is a means to express the ideal of personal renunciation that is expected of them: it seems that the Greek trophos was not so much attached to her functions of nursing and educating as to the child itself, acting as a kind of protective daimon for it.
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