{"id":1108,"date":"2017-06-02T19:35:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T17:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpchronocarto.gaillard.info\/2017\/06\/02\/excavation-in-bourges-cher\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:36:18","slug":"excavation-in-bourges-cher","status":"publish","type":"projet","link":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/projet\/excavation-in-bourges-cher\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavation in Bourges (Cher)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Researchers\u00a0:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Olivier Buchsenschutz, DR CNRS, AOROC,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laurence Augier, Dr en arch\u00e9ologie, Bourges Plus,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marylin Salin, Dr en arch\u00e9ologie, Bourges Plus,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jacques Troadec, Dr du service municipal d\u2019arch\u00e9ologie de Bourges Plus,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ian Ralston, Pr \u00e0 Edimbourg, directeur de l\u2019institut d\u2019arch\u00e9ologie,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophie Krausz, MCU Bordeaux,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christophe Batardy, Ing\u00e9nieur au Minist\u00e8re de la Culture, SIG.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Students<\/strong> : mainly from Tours and Paris Universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The construction of Bourges, \u00ab the fairest city in almost all of Gaul \u00bb according to Julius Caesar (1st century BC), began in the 6th century BC. The city belongs to the aristocratic complex of the 6th century BC, associating princely tombs and fortified settlements of prestige (such as Vix, C\u00f4te-d\u2019Or, or the Heuneburg, Baden-W\u00fcrtemberg).<br>This excavation focuses on 15 hectares in the outlying areas of the hill settlement, today buried under the modern town of Bourges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excavation results reveal the presence of an artisanal neighborhood, where bronze, iron and lignite jewelry were manufactured. Pearls of glass, amber and coral were imported and sometimes crafted on site. The Greek and Proven\u00e7al ceramic imports were few but found throughout the site, indicating the high status of these artisans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of today, this is the largest settlement area dedicated to artisanal production to be explored in Celtic Europe with Hochdorf (Baden-W\u00fcrtemberg). Several hundreds of thousands of objects, bones and traces of metalwork have been inventoried. Their distribution on the site was studied by using a GIS. The results were published in 2012.<br>The RACF supplement \u00ab\u00a0Port Sec Sud\u00a0\u00bb is now freely available on Perseus:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/sracf_1159-7151_2012_mon_41_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/sracf_1159-7151_2012_mon_41_1<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/sracf_1159-7151_2012_mon_41_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/sracf_1159-7151_2012_mon_41_2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students : mainly from Tours and Paris Universities. &nbsp; The construction of Bourges, \u00ab the fairest city in almost all of Gaul \u00bb according to Julius Caesar (1st century BC), began in the 6th century BC. The city belongs to the aristocratic complex of the 6th century BC, associating princely tombs and fortified settlements of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1109,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[145,171,169,152,147,170,163,146,164,168],"langue":[305],"type-de-publication":[12],"class_list":["post-1108","projet","type-projet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aoroc-umr8546-cnrs-ens","tag-archea-association","tag-bourges-plus-communaute-dagglomeration","tag-cnrs-centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique","tag-ens-ecole-normale-superieure-paris","tag-ministere-de-la-culture-france","tag-nakala","tag-psl-paris-sciences-et-lettres-universite-de-recherche","tag-tgir-huma-num-tres-grande-infrastructure-de-recherche","tag-university-of-edinburgh","langue-autre-langue","type-de-publication-collections-iconographiques-aoroc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projet\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projet"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projet\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projet\/1108\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"langue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/langue?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"type-de-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronocarto.ens.fr\/wpchrono\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-de-publication?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}