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Un projet de mise en valeur des roches gravées de la forêt Montravail par la commune de Sainte-Lu... more Un projet de mise en valeur des roches gravées de la forêt Montravail par la commune de Sainte-Luce en Martinique a suscité en juillet 2007 un diagnostic d’archéologique préventive. À environ 200 m d’altitude et 3,5 km du littoral, le terrain diagnostiqué se développe sur le flanc sud d’une ligne de crête dont l’axe est situé à proximité de la limite parcellaire nord. Le flanc nord est planté de mahogany. Il s’agit de la Forêt Domaniale de Montravail. Au pied s’écoule la petite rivière Madame..
Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie, 2018
Prroceedings of the 26th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (Sint-Maarten 2015), 2017
Checking out the archaeological map of Guadeloupe is enough to assess the unequal geographical di... more Checking out the archaeological map of Guadeloupe is enough to assess the unequal geographical distribution of identified Pre-Columbian sites : their density decrease rapidly from the coast towards inland and disappear almost completely from 2 kilometers away the shoreline and 150 meters above sea level. It is legitimate to ask whether this distribution reflects the reality of Pre-Columbian settlements. It could be more likely the result of a survey bias in the knowledge of the inland sites whose the apparent lack could be explained by the difficulties of the archaeological surveying in this heavily wooded region and by the scarcity of civil works in these currently unoccupied areas. We have begun to explore an area of a few square kilometers between 250 and 450 meters above sea level in the highlands of the municipality of Capesterre-Belle-Eau. This area was chosen because of extensive banana fields frequently plowed involving a good visibility of the soil, but also by pieces of evidence of Pre-Columbian presence reported by archaeologists in year 1998. Initial results of our work indicate that these highlands are rather densely occupied. We have found several Neo-Indian settlements and one Meso-Indian campsite dated around 1350 BC. In addition we observe a widespread and scattered but dense presence of lithic artifacts (flakes of volcanic rocks, tools and axes blades) who remains still unexplained and could indicate places of food gardens or lithic working made from volcanic raw material which can be collected in one of the nearby valleys.
Un projet de mise en valeur des roches gravées de la forêt Montravail par la commune de Sainte-Lu... more Un projet de mise en valeur des roches gravées de la forêt Montravail par la commune de Sainte-Luce en Martinique a suscité en juillet 2007 un diagnostic d’archéologique préventive. À environ 200 m d’altitude et 3,5 km du littoral, le terrain diagnostiqué se développe sur le flanc sud d’une ligne de crête dont l’axe est situé à proximité de la limite parcellaire nord. Le flanc nord est planté de mahogany. Il s’agit de la Forêt Domaniale de Montravail. Au pied s’écoule la petite rivière Madame..
Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie, 2018
Prroceedings of the 26th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (Sint-Maarten 2015), 2017
Checking out the archaeological map of Guadeloupe is enough to assess the unequal geographical di... more Checking out the archaeological map of Guadeloupe is enough to assess the unequal geographical distribution of identified Pre-Columbian sites : their density decrease rapidly from the coast towards inland and disappear almost completely from 2 kilometers away the shoreline and 150 meters above sea level. It is legitimate to ask whether this distribution reflects the reality of Pre-Columbian settlements. It could be more likely the result of a survey bias in the knowledge of the inland sites whose the apparent lack could be explained by the difficulties of the archaeological surveying in this heavily wooded region and by the scarcity of civil works in these currently unoccupied areas. We have begun to explore an area of a few square kilometers between 250 and 450 meters above sea level in the highlands of the municipality of Capesterre-Belle-Eau. This area was chosen because of extensive banana fields frequently plowed involving a good visibility of the soil, but also by pieces of evidence of Pre-Columbian presence reported by archaeologists in year 1998. Initial results of our work indicate that these highlands are rather densely occupied. We have found several Neo-Indian settlements and one Meso-Indian campsite dated around 1350 BC. In addition we observe a widespread and scattered but dense presence of lithic artifacts (flakes of volcanic rocks, tools and axes blades) who remains still unexplained and could indicate places of food gardens or lithic working made from volcanic raw material which can be collected in one of the nearby valleys.