L'Age du fer dans la dépression permienne, et dans les massifs des Maures et de l'Estérel (Var)

Abstract

The geographic area of the Permian depression, the Massif des Maures and the Estérel is heterogeneous. During the Iron Age human implantation basically corresponds to local circumstances. The fortified hill-top habitat remains the principal dwelling place and is no longer occupied after the years 30/20 B. C. It has never been possible to study the internal arrangement of this habitat exhaustively. Non-fortified hill-top habitats are rare. The settlements in the plain, at the foot of a hill, on the slope or on the plateau are always open and exist during practically the entire Iron Age. Those in the plain develop particularly during the Ist century B.C. in the shape of hamlets, when the hill-top habitats are abandoned. Caves are not much used. There are few indigenous places of worship and few cremation tombs. During the entire Iron Age the region studied presents a cultural continuity, an undeniable archaism and a tendency to marginalization.

Cult Places at Former Oppida in South‐East Gaul: Questions of Memory, Tradition and Identity

“…The Roman‐period shrine was established on a settlement of approximately one square kilometre which had been recently abandoned during the third quarter of the first century BC. The shrine was probably located inside the fortification, specifically in the western part (Brun et al , 16–17) and on the highest point (Bérato et al , CD‐Rom no. 136) (Fig.…”

La déesse Dexiua du Castellar (Cadenet, Vaucluse). Confrontation des témoignages épigraphiques et des données archéologiques à l’occasion des premières fouilles

“…J.-C., probablement à l'intérieur de la fortification, en particulier dans la partie occidentale (Brun et al 1993, 16-17), point culminant de l'oppidum (Bérato et al 1995) ?…”

Caring about Sediments

“…It appears that during the Early Iron Age, the Sainte Victoire was quite marginal when compared with the neighbouring areas. Other zones in eastern Provence appear to have had reasonably high levels of population, whilst the Sainte Victoire was neglected (Trément 1993;Bérato 1995;Walsh and Mocci 2003). The perception of peoples from beyond the Sainte Victoire may well have been one that saw this micro-region as too risky and difficult to manage.…”