Gestion et fonction des déchets amphoriques et céramiques : l’exemple d’Arles
Résumé
An indispensable complement to the land routes, the Rhône was an essential penetration route to the interior
in Roman antiquity. From the end of the first century BC, the port of Arles thus received all the products of the
Mediterranean. Faced with this massive influx of amphoras, which quickly became quite cumbersome, many
questions arose. How to treat this useless waste? Which areas were conducive to recycling and, failing that, to
rejection? If the causes of amphora discharges into the Rhône can be explained fairly well, given the port context,
the presence of hundreds of thousands of ceramics in the river raises questions. What do they correspond to? Can
relevant information on trade be extracted from them? Based on the excavations and the lifting of the Arles-Rhône 3
barge, which allowed a large quantity of material to be extracted from the Rhône, the study of the AR3 port dump
will provide some elements of an answer.
Domaines
Archéologie et Préhistoire
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