Christophe Sévin-Allouet

Éveha International

Over the past few years, the development and application of a statistical Bayesian method on British collective graves have considerably changed our models relating to questions of chronology, time and use duration of such graves. By taking these results as a starting point, the thesis supported throughout this work is that there is often a memoria...

This third campaign of the French Archaeological Mission in Khor Jarama took place from the 1st of February to the 6 of March 2020. The aim of this operation was to undertake the excavation of the third tomb (tomb 3), the biggest of the necropolis. This tomb is located at the top of the small promontory bordering the wadi Jarama.

The two first campaigns of the French Archaeological Mission in Khawr Jirama, under the authority of the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism of Oman and the French Institut des Deserts et des Steppes took place during winters 2018 and 2019. The objective of this program is to lead a new archaeological mission in the Ja’alan area, around the Khawr Jira...

This project in the far omani Ja'alan aims to study a site likely to belong to the Iron Age period. This site is located at the junction of the wadi Hasid and wadi Bani Khalid, which lead directly to the sea downstream and go up towards the foothills of the Jebel Hajar upstream. The preponderant role of the point of Ja’alan in the regional exchange...

Oman, Iron Age, Hillfort, Archaeology

Since 2001, archaeological research has been conducted in the Molène Archipelago, an area that is particularly rich in remains from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, with an exceptional concentration of megalithic monuments. Several settlements are attested by the presence of domestic refuse dumps. At the point of Beg ar Loued (Molène Island), one...

This first campaign of the French Archaeological Mission in Khor al-Jarama, under the authority of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture of Oman and the French Institut des Déserts et des Steppes, took place from the 5 of February to the 11 of March 2018. There were two objects. The first one was to make an aerial and photogrammetric survey of the s...

De Newgrange en Irlande à Hal Saflieni à Malte ou Gavrinis en Bretagne, les tombeaux néolithiques sont connus pour leur caractère monumental. Loin d’être de simples “contenants” mortuaires, destinés uniquement à recueillir les restes corporels des défunts, ces tombes sont des architectures complexes et multiples, conçues pour accueillir des rites f...

Recent studies, based on the introduction of radiocarbon datings in a bayesian framework, have allowed me to reconsider and refine the chronology of the collective tombs of the Orkney Islands in the far north of Scotland (Sévin-Allouet 2013). From these results, it appears that a major rupture in the social organization of populations of the archip...

Burial monuments with collective inhumations appear in Britain in the early centuries of the 4th millennium BC. This development hence follows very closely after the transition from hunter-gatherer populations to a Neolithic way of life. Associated with that ‘Neolithic revolution’, the monumentalization of burials and the practice of collective inh...

After the discovery in 2006 of an engraved stone near Ādam, dated by Serge Cleuziou to the third millennium BC, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture in the Sultanate of Oman allowed and assisted the team to set up an archaeological study of the region of Ādam, which is the last oasis north of the Umm al-Samīm and Rubʿ al-Khālī deserts. For centurie...