Modern Archaeology of the French Atlantic Region

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

If modern and contemporary archaeology is young in France (the excavation of the modern districts in Paris, under the Louvre museum have been a famous beginning during the years 1980), she grows quickly, especially through preventive archaeology.This session will create a opportunity to make a report on the main results in the Atlantic and Paris area, chose for examplariness of the efficient nature of the discipline of archeology. This one is not redundant with the history studying by the writing documents. The activities of different social level intersect in the urban hub sites. There are exchange networks, delivering commercial activities and factories. Agrarian practices and their rationality emerge from rural sites, and also the expensive aspect of the training for war, very present in this times. All this cases are seen and dated in their constantly changing, types of settelment and consumption.