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From Lagoon to River: Bank Management at the Submerged Late Bronze Age Settlement of La Motte (Agde, France)
Thibault Lachenal · 2024
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- date assertion Western Mediterranean interaction networks — date assertioninforms · contextualizes · Lower Hérault palaeogeography and settlement setting
Provides a coastal and riverine context.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: lowinforms · contextualizes · Lower Hérault settlement context
Provides a southern terminus case.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: lowinforms · contextualizes · Lower Hérault settlement context
Provides a southern terminus case.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: lowinforms · contextualizes · Lower Hérault settlement context
Provides a southern terminus case.
- date assertion Southern French Late Bronze Age ceramic sequences — date assertioninforms · dates · La Motte assemblage and chronology sections
Provides a securely contextualized southern sequence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides archaeological observation · La Motte ceramic and chronological sections
Provides a well-dated local sequence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 21-45, sections 2.2-2.5
Provides stratigraphy, palaeogeography and bank structures.
- date assertion La Motte at Agde — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 21-45
Provides settlement, bank and chronology evidence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 21-45, sections 2.2-2.5
Provides stratigraphy, palaeogeography and bank structures.
- date assertion Mailhac I ceramic style — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · La Motte ceramic assemblage and chronology
Documents Mailhac I pottery at La Motte.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides archaeological observation · La Motte ceramic and chronological sections
Provides a well-dated local sequence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Ceramic assemblage and chronology sections
Documents Mailhac I pottery in context.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Ceramic assemblage and chronology sections
Documents Mailhac I pottery in context.
- date assertion Reorganization of Rhône-Saône connections — date assertionEvidence confidence: lowsupports · contextualizes · Lower Hérault settlement context
Provides a southern terminus case.
- relationship La Motte at Agde — situated in interaction setting — Western Mediterranean interaction networksEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · contextualizes · Palaeogeographic setting
Provides coastal-riverine context.
- relationship Rhône-Saône interaction corridor — connects to — Western Mediterranean interaction networksEvidence confidence: lowsupports · contextualizes · Lower Hérault setting
Provides a southern comparative case.
- geography assertion Western Mediterranean interaction networks — geography assertionsupports · contextualizes · La Motte water-edge setting
Provides a second coastal case.
- entity Western Mediterranean interaction networksEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · contextualizes · Lower Hérault palaeogeography and settlement setting
Provides a coastal and riverine context.
- event Reorganization of Rhône-Saône connectionsEvidence confidence: lowsupports · contextualizes · Lower Hérault settlement context
Provides a southern terminus case.
- claim The earliest Mediterranean contacts with southern France and Corsica must be dated by secure site context rather than by assuming a single arrival horizon.Evidence confidence: highsupports · dates · Radiocarbon model and ceramic sequence
Provides a tenth-to-eighth-century southern French case.
- entity Southern French Late Bronze Age ceramic sequencesEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · dates · La Motte assemblage and chronology sections
Provides a securely contextualized southern sequence.
- relationship La Motte at Agde — anchors regional sequence — Southern French Late Bronze Age ceramic sequencesEvidence confidence: highsupports · dates · Chronology and assemblage sections
Provides local anchor.
- geography assertion La Motte at Agde — geography assertionsupports · locates · Figure and site-setting sections
Provides the site and palaeogeographic setting.
- causal hypothesis La Motte bank structures as adaptive water-edge managementEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · proposes interpretation · pp. 21-45, sections 2.2-2.5
Provides the bank-management model.
- entity La Motte at AgdeEvidence confidence: very highsupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 21-45
Provides settlement, bank and chronology evidence.
- claim Contemporaneous Mediterranean disruption does not establish a single European crisis in France around 1200 BCE.Evidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · La Motte sequence
Provides a later southern trajectory.
- entity Mailhac I ceramic styleEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · La Motte ceramic assemblage and chronology
Documents Mailhac I pottery at La Motte.
- event Regional reorganization of southern French ceramic and settlement sequencesEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · La Motte ceramic and chronological sections
Provides a well-dated local sequence.
- event Mailhac I assemblage at La MotteEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Ceramic assemblage and chronology sections
Documents Mailhac I pottery in context.
- event Bank management and water-edge construction at La MotteEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 21-45, sections 2.2-2.5
Provides stratigraphy, palaeogeography and bank structures.
- date assertion Regional reorganization of southern French ceramic and settlement sequences — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · La Motte ceramic and chronological sections
Provides a well-dated local sequence.
- date assertion Mailhac I assemblage at La Motte — date assertionEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Ceramic assemblage and chronology sections
Documents Mailhac I pottery in context.
- date assertion Bank management and water-edge construction at La Motte — date assertionEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 21-45, sections 2.2-2.5
Provides stratigraphy, palaeogeography and bank structures.
- relationship La Motte at Agde — attests style — Mailhac I ceramic styleEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Ceramic assemblage
Direct attestation.
- relationship Southern French Late Bronze Age ceramic sequences — records selective contact with — Western Mediterranean interaction networksEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · La Motte assemblage and setting
Provides a coastal settlement case.