Lattara et l’Étrurie : nouvelles données sur l’installation d’un comptoir vers 500 av. J.-C.

Lebeaupin, Denis; Séjalon, Pierre

doi:10.3406/galia.2008.3330

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“…The settlement was a very important port-of-trade in the Mediterranean from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century AD (Janin and Py, 2008). From its foundation at the end of the 7th century BC some elements suggest the presence of exogenous communities in the site (possibly Etruscan; Lebeaupin and Séjalon, 2008;Gailledrat, 2014;Daveau and Py, 2015). But from the 5th century BC (475-450 BCE), imported pottery finds indicate a reorientation of the commercial activity of the city, now dominated by the Greek colony of Marseille.…”

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Livestock production, politics and trade: A glimpse from Iron Age and Roman Languedoc

Espinet

Lamas

Bosch

et al. 2020

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Mobility is crucial in animal husbandry to overcome scarcity of food and the related over-grazing of pastures. It is also essential to reduce the inbreeding rate of animal populations, which is known to have a negative impact on fertility and productivity. Complex societies with a strong territorial component developed during the Iron Age in Southern France and across Europe. The impact of this phenomenon over animal husbandry is not yet fully understood, but a general small size of animals is attested in different parts of Europe at that time. This paper presents the main zooarchaeological results (main domesticates species representation, mortality profiles, osteometry, pathologies) of two major Iron Age sites in Languedoc-La Monédière (Bessan) and Lattara (Lattes). In addition, the strontium isotopic ratios (87 Sr/ 86 Sr) of 44 sheep and 16 cattle teeth from these sites are provided together with some baseline isotopic data. La Monédière and Lattara represent good case studies to characterise the geographic range of meat provisioning in coastal urban centres in the mid Iron Age (6th-4th c. BC). Their archaeological record enables us to analyse whether different species may have had different mobility patterns. In addition the strontium ratios of 4 Roman cattle from these sites were analysed for comparative purposes. The results are contextualised with other archaeological and zooarchaeological data from Languedoc and neighbour Catalonia, and suggest that the socio-political context has a major influence on animal production.

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Livestock production, politics and trade: A glimpse from Iron Age and Roman Languedoc

Espinet

Lamas

Bosch

et al. 2020

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“…Plus précisément, les fouilles menées dans cette zone ont révélé l'existence d'une phase d'installation directement au contact du substrat, datée des environs de 500 av. J.-C. (Py et al 2006 ;Lebeaupin, Séjalon 2008 ;Py 2009, p. 39-53 ;Lebeaupin dir. 2014).…”

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Lattes/Lattara (Hérault), comptoir étrusque du littoral languedocien

Gailledrat¹,

Vacheret²

2020

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Excavations recently carried out in Lattes/Lattara (Hérault) had revealed a new window onto the foundation levels of that lagoonal protohistoric trading post, sparsely accessible due to the thickness of the stratigraphic sequence. These new data invite us to take stock of our knowledge about the nature of this first occupation and the role played by the Etruscans. The scale of the urbanistic program conducted by the latter at the beginning of the 5th c. BC is confirmed, as well as the brutal destruction that affects the site around 480/470 BC. The morphology of the block suggests the evidence of multi-room houses and a rigorous orthonormal plan. However, a new previous sequence was highlighted here, and corresponds to the strictly speaking installation phase. A regular division of the land precedes the building of a wattle-and-daub apsidal house which plan and metrology find convincing parallels in Padanian Etruria. This succession between a land division, a temporary settlement and an urban program testify of a real planned undertaking, that must be linked to the renewed commercial dynamic of the City-States of Southern Etruria at the end of the 6th-beginning of the 5th c. BC.

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“…In the sixth century BC, more Etruscan amphorae reached southern France; here, the combination of amphorae with bucchero kantharoi, Etruscan drinking vessels also exported 4 to Sardinia (Santocchini Gerg 2014, 248-52), has led to suggestions that Etruscan trade included wine (Gras 1986: 355;Long and Surrisseau 2002)-as is now confirmed by biomolecular analysis of pre-475 BC amphorae from Lattes in eastern Languedoc (McGovern et al 2013). After roughly 540 BC and through to the late sixth century, exports to southern France decreased as Ionian and Attic ceramic drinking vessels increased, although the occurrence of Etruscan amphorae is variable there even before considering the unparalleled record at Lattes (Lebeaupin et al 2008). In Sardinia, we see a complementary, albeit distinct, trajectory: in the third quarter of the sixth century BC, Ionian B2 cups, widely distributed from Etruria to Spain and probably produced in southern Italy or Sicily (Krotscheck 2015), replaced Etrusco-Corinthian pottery (Santocchini Gerg 2014: 212-13).…”

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Wine Production and Exchange and the Value of Wine Consumption in Sixth-century BC Etruria

Riva

2018

JMA

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This paper attempts to bridge the gulf between two often separate research agendas in Archaic period Etruria, one concerned with the archaeology of wine and agricultural production and redistribution, the other with figured representations of drinking and the associated symbolic visual language. It does so by examining the relationship between changing processes of production, consumption and exchange and the symbolism of drinking in the visual and material culture of sixth-century BC Tyrrhenian Etruria. In this analysis, I maintain that changing modes of agricultural production and distribution had an impact on such symbolism in elite funerary and domestic contexts, with key evidence also coming from sanctuaries. In particular, it is argued that during the seventh century BC, the visual language related to wine drinking alludes to experiences of bodily otherness; this is indicated by the symbolic correlation between accessibility to wine, the dangers of maritime travel and death. From the sixth century BC, we can trace a shift towards a visual language that centred on cultural difference or otherness: this is noticeable in the introduction of Dionysiac imagery and new mythological narratives of cross-cultural encounters, as well as a new emphasis on codified drinking and culturally differentiated drinking vessels. This shift is more or less contemporary with other changes, namely the production and distribution of 2 agricultural surplus in the Tyrrhenian region and beyond, and shifting values of objects in that exchange.

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Lattara et l’Étrurie : nouvelles données sur l’installation d’un comptoir vers 500 av. J.-C.

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Livestock production, politics and trade: A glimpse from Iron Age and Roman Languedoc

Livestock production, politics and trade: A glimpse from Iron Age and Roman Languedoc

Lattes/Lattara (Hérault), comptoir étrusque du littoral languedocien

Wine Production and Exchange and the Value of Wine Consumption in Sixth-century BC Etruria

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