Archéogéographie et archéologie préventive à la Ferme du Colombier (Seine-et-Marne)

Abstract

The farm of The Colombier in Varennes-sur-Seine, built ex-nihilo at the beginning of the 16th century in a wetland area, is a fine example, of interdisciplinary and multiscale use of the landscape. As a basis and a database of interaction, between individuals and their environments, landscape is indeed regarded as an hybrid piece of study halfway between natural and social phenomenon, Archeological, palaeoenvironmental, historical and archeogeographic data contribute to understanding the landscape regarded both as environment and territory and eventually makes it possible to grasp the social aspects of the site. After confronting this various approaches, the restitution of the original landscape emerges, that is a developped and transformed landscape in which lived a modest rural elite in quest of social recognition right at the corner of the Middle-Ages and the Modern Era.

Keywords

• élites rurales
• milieu humide
• territoire
• estimateur archéologique
• pratiques sociales de l’espace
• fin du Moyen Age -Époque moderne