Activités humaines et paysages dans le Parc national des Ecrins depuis la Préhistoire.
Résumé
The aim of this seminar is to assess the development of summer activities in the high-altitude zone of the southern French Alps between the Neolithic and the Antiquity. During these periods, there was enormous variety in the nature of high-altitude activity in these valleys. Since the Ancient Bronze Age witnessed the establishment of the first stone-built pastoral structures at 2200 m and above. This marked an important change in the engagement with this landscape, with high-altitude summer pasturing emerging as a new activity. The Iron Age and Roman periods are characterised by a dearth of archaeological structures, but continued palaeoecological signals for pastoral (and possibly mining) activity.