Henri-Georges Naton- MS
- Principal Investigator at Geoarcheon
Henri-Georges Naton
- MS
- Principal Investigator at Geoarcheon
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Introduction
Free researcher in Geoarchaeology in France and Luxembourg. Founder of Géoarchéon, private laboratory for geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironnement studies. Collaborations with french and luxembourgian public institutions (CNRS, University, INRAP, CG, CNRAL,...) and private operators of preventive archeology (Archéopôle, Archeodunum, Paléotime, Archeoverde, ...).
Current institution
Geoarcheon
Current position
- Principal Investigator
Additional affiliations
September 2009 - December 2020
Geoarcheon
Position
- Principal Investigator
Education
September 1997 - June 1998
September 1995 - May 1997
Musée dauphinois
Field of study
- Geology and archaeology
September 1994 - June 1995
Publications
Publications (56)
Présentation d'une phase d'incendie naturel datée de 90 000 ans. Les éléments de contextes ainsi que les signatures taphonomiques tendent donc à confirmer l’hypothèse d’un épisode d’incendie naturel de forte intensité. Les mesures physiques et chimiques en cours des charbons eux-mêmes et des sols permettent de mieux caractériser cet épisode. Les ét...
Diagnostic phase is the first of an archaeological intervention. It is essential for geoarchaeologists because, if no archaeological remains or structures are found, it is the only opportunity to access the stratigraphic sequences. The valley bottom sectors, due to the power of their sedimentary records and the good conservation of ecofacts, are es...
By analyzing the mechanisms that govern the interactions between environmental factors and ecosystems, paleoecology refines our knowledge of the mechanisms that are structuring plant communities, helping us to understand the complexity of past environments. While undertaking palaeoecological analyses, it is necessary to analyze and to understand th...
A Greenlandian (Early Holocene) palaeochannel of the Meuse River is described from Autrecourt-et-Pourron in the Ardennes region of northern France. During the Younger Dryas, fluvial deposits represent a high-energy, sinuous palaeochannel, but at the onset of the Holocene, progressive channel abandonment resulted in the establishment of a low-energy...
A Greenlandian (Early Holocene) palaeochannel of the Meuse River is described from Autrecourt-et-Pourron in the Ardennes region of northern France. During the Younger Dryas, fluvial deposits represent a high-energy, sinuous palaeochannel, but at the onset of the Holocene, progressive channel abandonment resulted in the establishment of a low-energy...
Flint mining site in Champagne (France) from the Middle Neolithic
This paper reports the results of new malacological analyses from a thick tufa sequence at Direndall (Luxembourg). The study is temporally contextualised with radiocarbon dates and an age–depth model. The malacological study focuses on species associations to reconstruct palaeoenvironmental developments. The gradual appearance of several shade-dema...
This paper reports the results of new malacological analyses from a thick tufa sequence at Direndall (Luxembourg). The study is temporally contextualised with radiocarbon dates and an age–depth model. The malacological study focuses on species associations to reconstruct palaeoenvironmental developments. The gradual appearance of several shade-dema...
Archaeological excavations in alluvial environments, carried out before the extraction of aggregate, allow us to better understand both palaeoenvironmental data and human occupations. Due to the high-resolution palaeoenvironnemental records, a plury-disciplinary approach was carried out to reconstruct the natural and « cultural » landscape. Industr...
La séquence sédimentaire du gisement paléolithique d'Ormesson
À l’échelle européenne, la répartition actuelle des différentes espèces de mollusques terrestres est d’abord paramétrée par les températures et les espèces en présence diffèrent d’une région à l’autre selon une logique climatique. À l’échelle du Quaternaire, dans le nord-ouest de l’Europe, il existe une relation entre l’évolution de la distribution...
Les Bossats site at Ormesson, in addition to its Badegoulian, Solutrean, Gravettian and Mousterian levels, has also delivered a Châtelperronian occupation over a large area, in the form of a thin layer and whose integrity has not suffered from mixtures, or to a very limited extent, with older or newer layers. This occupation has been excavated in t...
Notre communication visera à présenter le potentiel informatif des interventions hors sites. Elle présentera des expériences d’adaptation de interventions face à l’évolution de l’aménagement des zones humides. Elle interrogera les limites de la définition classique du « site » alors que les notions d’anthropisation et de paléo-environnement s’inter...
Les vallées alluviales, comme d’autres types de zones humides, sont au cœur de différentes problématiques archéologiques, notamment chronologiques et environnementales. Objet d’un aménagement intensif, notamment par l’exploitation des graviers, elles sont régulièrement citées comme exemple de destruction rapide des traces du passé. Au delà des vest...
Des opérations de fouilles, menées par le Conseil Départemental des Ardennes et GéoArchÉon, ont été réalisés à Autrecourt-et-Pourron entre 2012 et 2016. Ces recherches s’inscrivent dans une démarche géoarchéologique et paléoenvironnementale afin de reconstituer l’évolution des conditions naturelles de dépôt. Les données géoarchéologiques ont montré...
Abstract
The ancient urban area of Grand (Vosges, Lorraine, France) is characterised by numerous hydraulic infrastructures including a canalisation, crossing the ‘Rue du Ruisseau’ site, which has been in the focus of multidisciplinary investigations. Stratigraphic study and characterisation (sedimentology and micromorphology) of sediments filling o...
Les tufs calcaires sont des formations carbonatées se déposant à proximité des sources ou en marge des rivières et des lacs. Ils sont composés en majorité de calcite (parfois plus de 95% de CaCO3) résultant de processus de dissolution dans l’aquifère puis de reprécipitation à l’air libre et à température ambiante. Ces processus nécessitant des cond...
La fouille de la Rue du Ruisseau à Grand (Vosges, France), a permis la mise au jour d'une conduite hydraulique traversant l'ensemble de la parcelle fouillée. Cette conduite à l’architecture particulièrement soignée a été observée sur une longueur totale de 42 m. Le dénivelé aux deux extrémités de l’aire de fouille, est assez important (1,23 m). Apr...
Les tufs calcaires sont des carbonates continentaux de plein-air caractéristiques des interglaciaires et des témoins-clé pour en comprendre les dynamiques environnementales et climatiques. Ils sont propices à des approches pluridisciplinaires associant stratigraphie, sédimentologie, paléontologie et géochimie. Le tuf de Direndall (vallée de la Mame...
In the Paris Basin, open-air Palaeolithic sites generally belong to the final Magdalenian with examples such as Pincevent, Etiolles and Verberie. It is on these sites that the palethnographic approach of A. Leroi-Gourhan and his disciples was elaborated. However, for a long time, periods prior to the end of the Upper Palaeolithic did not focus a lo...
A new multidisciplinary study is in progress at Direndall in the Mamer Valley in Luxembourg, combining stratigraphy, geochemistry, malacology and palynology. As it covers a wide part of the Holocene (C14 dating between c. 10 000 to 900 ka BP), the 8m-high tufa deposit provides a great opportunity to discuss modalities and timing of the so-called ‘l...
Tufa deposits are proven to record high quality palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic information. They also appear to be influenced by human activities as indicated by the ‘late Holocene tufa decline’ observed in Europe from the Atlantic optimum, when tufa should be well developed regarding climatic conditions. The studied tufa comes from the Mam...
In 2002 rescue excavations on the track of the future high speed train line LGV-Est in the Meuse department, eastern France, led to the discovery of a medieval rural settlement, giving evidence of a long-lasting occupation during early and high medieval times (6th – 12th c. AD). This rural occupation, covering a total surface of about 1 hectare, wa...
In the Paris Basin, the Gravettian techno-complex is documented by a limited number of sites, and radiocarbon dates are available for only three locations: Arcy-sur-Cure (Grande Grotte and Grotte du Renne, Yonne), La Pente-des-Brosses (Montigny-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne) and Chamvres (Yonne). This period of human prehistory is poorly known in the r...
The downloadable version concerns only the archaeobotanical study.
The Solutrean and particularly the Middle Solutrean is a period that is very poorly understood in the Île-de-France region. With the exception of the site of Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières (Essonne), excavated by Beatrice Schmider between 1983 and 1985, and some chance finds which may or may not be leaf-shaped points, very little material from this peri...
Le Solutréen est un techno-complexe peu documenté en Île-de-France et le Solutréen moyen reste relativement méconnu à l’échelle de la France. À l’exception du gisement de Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières (Essonne) fouillé sous la direction de Béatrice Schmider entre 1983 et 1985 et de quelques découvertes isolées et contestables de pièces foliacées, très...
The Upper Paleolithic (ca. 40-10 Ka BP) of Western Europe coincides with the emergence of what are often termed "fully modern" human cultures in a glacial environment (Late Pleistocene, Weichselian glaciation). During this period the increasing structuration of living-spaces, as well as favorable preservational contexts, allows for the investigatio...
The recent discovery (2009) and excavation of the open-air site of Ormesson (Seine-et-Marne e France)
was initially intended to document a Gravettian occupation floor dated around 29,000 cal. BP and related
to a preferential bison hunt. Whilst checking the thickness of the loess in which the Gravettian level was
found, several other prehistoric set...
Actes du 29 e colloque interrégional sur le Néolithique Villeneuve-d'Ascq 2-3 octobre 2009 Textes réunis par Françoise BostyN Emmanuelle MartiaL ivan Praud à la mémoire d' Yves Lanchon RAP-n° spécial 28-2011-Le Néolithique du Nord de la France dans son contexte européen.
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist ein besseres Verständnis der Funktionszuweisung der neolithischen Langbauten mittels Verteilungskarten des Phosphors und deren Evolution. Ein besonderer Akzent liegt auf den jüngeren Studien mehrerer endneolithischer Häuser. Die Karten wurden mithilfe von systematischen Phosphortests und einigen gezielteren Gesamt-Phosphatana...
Located in the Moselle valley in Luxembourg, the Wintrange basin has been the subject of systematic geoarchaeological investigations for the last fifteen years. According to observations made upstream, the study area could represent a system of lower terraces build up of two stepped alluvial formations (M2 +10m, M1 +3-5m). A recent synthesis of pal...
The Alzette River rises within France, approximately 4 km south of the French-Luxembourg border, and has a total length of 73 kilometres before joining the Sauer which is a left-bank tributary of the Moselle River. During the construction of the "Nordstrooss" motorway (going north from Luxembourg city towards Ettelbruck) a viaduct was built that cr...
The study of karstic infillings in northern Alps and southern Jura allows to distinguish two type of sedimentary deposits corresponding to different climato-sedimentary processes. At the first type fits three sites presenting infillings earlier than Tardiglacial and some clues of mousterian occupations Pré Létang, Balme-Rousse et la Chênelaz. They...
