La route des Flandres

Le groupe Champagne-Ardenne organisait les 18 et 19 septembre son premier voyage d’étude depuis sa reconstitution en décembre 2005 à Rotterdam, via Bruxelles. Une trentaine d’adhérents de toute la région, de la bibliothèque de Warnecourt (Ardenne) à la toute nouvelle bibliothèque Robert de Sorbon de l’université de Reims, ont visité tour à tour le musée de l’Imprimerie, la chalcographie de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique et la Bibliothèque centrale du réseau de Rotterdam

Revisiting and modelling the woodland farming system of the early Neolithic Linear Pottery Culture (LBK), 5600–4900 B.C

International audienceThis article presents the conception and the conceptual results of a modelling representation of the farming systems of the Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK). Assuming that there were permanent fields (PF) then, we suggest four ways that support the sustainability of such a farming system over time: a generalized pollarding and coppicing of trees to increase the productivity of woodland areas for foddering more livestock, which itself can then provide more manure for the fields, a generalized use of pulses grown together with cereals during the same cropping season, thereby reducing the needs for manure. Along with assumptions limiting bias on village and family organizations, the conceptual model which we propose for human environment in the LBK aims to be sustainable for long periods and can thereby overcome doubts about the PFs hypothesis for the LBK farming system. Thanks to a reconstruction of the climate of western Europe and the consequent vegetation pattern and productivity arising from it, we propose a protocol of experiments and validation procedures for both testing the PFs hypothesis and defining its eco-geographical area

Ichnological and archaeological evidence from Gombore II OAM, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia: An integrated approach to reconstruct local environments and biological presences between 1.2 and 0.85 Ma

New ichnological data are available at the prehistoric site of Melka Kunture, Upper Awash Valley in Ethiopia. Excavation of new test pits enabled us to explore the volcanic and fluvio-lacustrine sequence at the Gombore II Open Air Museum archaeological site (ca. 0.85 Ma). This has allowed a detailed reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment and of the fauna present in the time interval between 1.2 and 0.85 Ma. Various-sized mammals, birds, molluscs as well as hominins left tracks throughout the sequence, and document a varied fauna and associated behaviours. Most of the hominin tracks were made by young individuals on the basis of size and are some of the earlier child tracks to be reported. The mollusc traces document the presence and orientation of water streams which, according to the associated vertebrate traces, were visited by hominins, mammals and birds. Most of these traces were found within levels traditionally considered barren for archaeology, yet they all document life activity and are always in situ. This confirms the potential of the ichnological research as an important complementary tool for archaeological investigations

Région parisienne

Bailloud Gérard. Région parisienne. In: Gallia préhistoire, tome 12, fascicule 2, 1969. pp. 401-415

Présence de Néolithique danubien en Beauce et dans le Gâtinais

Bailloud Gérard. Présence de Néolithique danubien en Beauce et dans le Gâtinais. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France, tome 59, n°5-6, 1962. pp. 339-344

Les céramiques « cannelées » du Néolithique morbihannais

Bailloud Gérard. Les céramiques « cannelées » du Néolithique morbihannais. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Études et travaux, tome 72, n°1, 1975. pp. 343-367

Publications de Gérard Bailloud

Bailloud Gérard. Publications de Gérard Bailloud. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 108, n°3, 2011. pp. 555-558

Le néolithique dans le bassin parisien

Gallia préhistoire. Suppléments, supplément 2, 1974. Le néolithique dans le bassin parisien

Constantin (Claude).-Fin du rubané, céramique du Limbourg et post-rubané. Le Néolithique le plus ancien en Bassin Parisien et en Hainaut, 1985 (BAR S 273)

Bailloud Gérard. Constantin (Claude).-Fin du rubané, céramique du Limbourg et post-rubané. Le Néolithique le plus ancien en Bassin Parisien et en Hainaut, 1985 (BAR S 273). In: Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie, n°27, printemps 1987. p. 94

Chasséen et Michelsberg. Camps et enceintes. Texte introductif

Bailloud Gérard. Chasséen et Michelsberg. Camps et enceintes. Texte introductif. In: Revue archéologique de Picardie, n°1-2, 1984. La néolithique dans le nord de la France et le bassin parisien. pp. 103-104