Poster De Conférence Année : 2023

Timber in Lower Provence medieval rural architecture: new cross-disciplinary approaches

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The absence of woody artifacts in non-subhumid archaeological sites of Lower Medieval Provence hinders the study of architectural timber. New approaches need to be developed to remedy this situation. Rocky medieval sites are not rare in calcareous or sandstone Provence. Although their archaeological potential is known, they have never been the subject of in-depth synoptic work. These sites present numerous notches and negative wood imprints carved in the rock. These notches can provide the minimal morphology of the woods and at least part of the carpentry or joinery treatments they underwent. A specific protocol was developed to systematically record these embedding traces in medieval castellated sites in the Alpilles and Lower Provence. They testify to the use of wood in rural vernacular architecture. They open onto the technical operational sequence of woodworking (carpentry, joinery) and also onto forest and environmental management by villagers. Dendroecology completes and supports the data from the study of the embedding traces. The growth curves of key tree species, selected according to anthracological data of castellated villages, were acquired from present-day fertility stations located close to medieval archaeological sites. They offer new tools to address these questions in archaeology, and were partially completed by pedoanthracological analyses. The interweaving of the three approaches – anthracological, dendroecological and archaeological – makes it possible to propose models of growth or even forest management of the architectural woods used in rural twelfth-fourteenth century construction, especially at castellated villages.

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halshs-05083873 , version 1 (26-05-2025)

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Claire Venot-Tisserand, Aline Durand, Frédéric Guibal. Timber in Lower Provence medieval rural architecture: new cross-disciplinary approaches. 8th International Anthracology Meeting, Aug 2023, Porto, Portugal. ⟨halshs-05083873⟩
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