Habitats de l'Age du Fer et structures agraires d'époque romaine aux Escaravatiers. Puget-sur-Argens, Var

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ID24219834
AuthorsJean-Luc Fiches, George B Rogers, Jean Latour, Michiel Gazenbeek, Michel Dubar, Gérard Chouquer, Daniel Brentchaloff, Jacques Berato
Year1995
Volume52
Issue1
Pages205-261
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGallia (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-4119 • E-ISSN: 2109-9588
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/galia.1995.3140
OpenAlexW2050521402
LanguageFR
Citations received7
References cited12

Recent research on the palaeo-environment and the landscape has allowed us to characterize more closely the occupation of the Escaravatiers plateau site, well known through intensive fieldwork. Towards the end of the 6th century B.C., a native population occupied this exceptional site, which has no other parallel in the lower valley of the river Argens with the exception of Fréjus itself. At this time, however, the infilling of the valley was far from reach Fréjus. The choice of the Eastern part of the Escaravatiers plateau was probably due to the need of controlling the coast, which may then have been at a distance of less than a kilometer. This settlement was probably abandoned in the first quarter of the 1st century B.C. ; the Western part of the plateau on the other hand was occupied throughout the Republican period. This new occupation may have been connected with an enclosure in the form of a ditch revealed by photo interpretation. On both sites, the Gallo-Roman buildings probably correspond to two villae occupied until the end of Antiquity, and the Eastern one has yielded burials and a legionary funerary inscription. The site and the lower plain of the river Argens are strongly marked by a centuriation (Fréjus A), whose fonction which was used for draining the wetlands, and to which another field-system was added probably later on (Fréjus C). The combination of the assumptions concerning palaeo-hydrology and the antique land parcels shows a strong correlation.

centuriation · field systems · Fréjus · funerary practices · Gallo-Roman villa · Iron Age · paleohydrology · Roman Republican period · settlement abandonment · wetland drainage · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeological and Historical Studies

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