Conques-sur-Orbiel – Arques

Ce diagnostic répond au projet de construction d’un supermarché au lieu-dit Arques à Conques-sur-Orbiel sur une emprise totale de 8 542 m2. À l’aide d’une pelle mécanique à chenille de 20 tonnes, munie d’un godet lisse de 1,80 m de large, 15 tranchées de sondage ont été réalisées (soit 9 % de la surface d’étude). L’opération a révélé des traces d’occupations néolithique et antique le long de la départementale RD101, au pied du versant, dans une zone à forte accumulation sédimentaire. L’occupa..

Conques-sur-Orbiel – Centrale photovoltaïque de Villeraze

Le diagnostic mené sur des terres polluées en amont de la construction d’une centrale photovoltaïque de 24,5 ha à Villeraze à Conques-sur-Orbiel dans l’Aude s’est révélé largement positif et apporte des éléments nouveaux sur l’occupation du Carcassonnais. Les témoins les plus anciens sont dispersés au sud de l’emprise et sont attribués au Néolithique. Ils sont matérialisés par un niveau de sol, des foyers à pierres chauffées et du mobilier associé aux structures ou épars. Au nord de l’emprise..

Bram – Contournement de Bram, rond-point sud

Ce diagnostic archéologique, réalisé en vue de la construction d’un giratoire le long de la départementale D33 à la sortie de Bram en direction de Carcassonne, n’a livré aucune structure archéologique. Les huit sondages d’une superficie totale de 270 m2 (soit 8 % de l’emprise) ont seulement permis d’observer la présence erratique de quelques fragments de céramiques gallo-romaines datant de la période tardo-républicaine et du Haut-Empire. On les rencontre dans la plupart des niveaux recouvrant..

Universal Superfluid Transition and Transport Properties of Two-Dimensional Dirty Bosons

We study the phase diagram of two-dimensional, interacting bosons in the presence of a correlated disorder in continuous space, using large-scale finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We show that the superfluid transition is strongly protected against disorder. It remains of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type up to disorder strengths comparable to the chemical potential. Moreover, we study the transport properties in the strong disorder regime where a zero-temperature Bose-glass phase is expected. We show that the conductance exhibits a thermally activated behavior vanishing only at zero temperature. Our results point towards the existence of Bose bad-metal phase as a precursor of the Bose-glass phase

Les ateliers du IVe au VIe siècle en Narbonnaise première : le secteur de Béziers-Agde (Hérault)

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Carcassonne (Aude) : La Fajolle

Guillaume M., Sanchez Guilhem. Carcassonne (Aude) : La Fajolle. In: Archéologie du Midi médiéval. Tome 32, 2014. pp. 25-28

Enfin un site de production du fer chez les Gaulois du Midi : premier aperçu de l’atelier de réduction des Érables à Combaillaux (Hérault, France)

International audienceIn 2016-2017, at Combaillaux (Hérault, France), the preventive excavation carried out by the Inrap allowed the study of an exceptional set of three slag pit furnace with multiple use related to the direct iron ore reduction in 700 m2 open area. All three are based on the same model: an oblong access pit leading to a circular excavated heating chamber with a natural ventilation system activated by 5 vents arranged around the bottom of the chimney. Around the furnace, some twenty structures reflect the organization of work within the workshop. The workshop is close to several contemporary protohistoric settlements: 17 km north-east of Sextantio (Castelnau-le-Lez), 15 km north of the Gardies oppidum and 27 km from the Lattara harbour. The site would have been frequented from the beginning of the 5th century BC to the end of the 3rd century BC, but the metallurgical activity would have functioned for less than one century and would have produced between 15 and 20 tons of iron according to estimates. Today, Combaillaux Les Érables site is the oldest evidence of an iron production workshop in southern Gaul. Chemical analyses of reduction slags have revealed a specific chemical signature that can now be tracked

Enfin un site de production du fer chez les Gaulois du Midi : premier aperçu de l’atelier de réduction des Érables à Combaillaux (Hérault, France)

International audienceIn 2016-2017, at Combaillaux (Hérault, France), the preventive excavation carried out by the Inrap allowed the study of an exceptional set of three slag pit furnace with multiple use related to the direct iron ore reduction in 700 m2 open area. All three are based on the same model: an oblong access pit leading to a circular excavated heating chamber with a natural ventilation system activated by 5 vents arranged around the bottom of the chimney. Around the furnace, some twenty structures reflect the organization of work within the workshop. The workshop is close to several contemporary protohistoric settlements: 17 km north-east of Sextantio (Castelnau-le-Lez), 15 km north of the Gardies oppidum and 27 km from the Lattara harbour. The site would have been frequented from the beginning of the 5th century BC to the end of the 3rd century BC, but the metallurgical activity would have functioned for less than one century and would have produced between 15 and 20 tons of iron according to estimates. Today, Combaillaux Les Érables site is the oldest evidence of an iron production workshop in southern Gaul. Chemical analyses of reduction slags have revealed a specific chemical signature that can now be tracked