Au Bronze final II/IIIa, le site du Touar est implanté en bordure d'un marécage subpermanent, en relation avec des barrages travertineux développés sur le cours de l'Argens et dont les niveaux tourbeux sont datés du Chalcolithique. L'habitat qui s'y implante est saisonnier. Les ressources alimentaires de ce groupe humain sont principalement liées à la chasse et à l'élevage, les terres exploitées étant encore de superficie restreinte. La datation C14, après correction dendrochronologique, est de 1400-1030 av. J.-C. Ultérieurement, des apports détritiques remblaient le marécage qui transgresse ; le site n'est plus habité mais toujours utilisé. Au premier Age du fer, le milieu est plus sec et l'habitat devient permanent. La vie pastorale est alors mieux organisée mais c'est l'agriculture qui est désormais dominante dans l'alimentation. L'augmentation des volumes de céréales à stocker se traduit par l'apparition de grands récipients de réserve et cela antérieurement aux sollicitations économiques du monde méditerranéen. Le site est abandonné au début du Ve s. av. n. è.

The accidental discovery of two cremations burial places in the central Var department has revived the knowledge of the funeral practices of the Early Iron Age in this region. The well-preserved burial places are presented in their structural lay-out (in plain earth, whitout any particular protection or marking) and ritual arrangement (bones collected from the pyre, relation to the personal objects of the deceased, accompanying offerings or libations). Besides pottery, part of which is finely decorated, some metal or bone objects (ornaments, arms, plaques) strike us because of their technical quality and their close relation to the products of the Hallstatt cultures in the Northern Alps. Lastly, a built-up ustrinum has been excavated. The burial places can be to dated to the VIth c. ; the cremation area, however, is somewhat more recent (between the end of the VIth and the end of the Vth c. B.C.).

Prospectings and soundings bring a knew knowledge of protohistory in the Arcs-sur-Argens village district. During the Final Bronze II it was a small dwelling place on the slope of the Colobrère forest. From the Final Bronze II/IHA (C 14/ 1400- 1030 B.C.) until the first Iron Age (C14:1013-799 B.C.), dwellings were located in the Touar plain. During the Iron Age, dwellings were then constructed on the tops of the hills. For instance, the Castel-Diol oppidum with a 3,000 m2 in area dated back to the first half of the 5th century B.C. La Cabredor, a 1,600 m2 oppidum, with a rampart. Dwellings are grouped together in rows, each one being separated from the other by narrow spaces and from the wall by an open space. This oppidum is dated back to the end of the second century and the just half first century B.C. The Castelard, a 6,200 m2 oppidum with a double rampart and a 2,800 m2 central redoubt. In a second stage of occupation dated from the middle of the 2nd century B.C., dwellings lean on the wall. The hypothesis of an ancient path permitting an access to the permian depression of the Saint-Tropez gulf is evoqued, as well as the possible causes of the shift of population from the plain to the Maures massif.

As an addendum to their article published in the DAM 12 (1989), the authors give two sets of results of radiocarbon dating of Late Bronze II/IIIa and Early Iron Age lewels. The chronological margins obtained tend to push the beginning of the Iron Age in the Provence back to a much earlier date.