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Villa/vicus : de la forme de l'habitat aux réseaux de peuplement

2002; Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/ran.2002.1095

2117-5683

Frédérique Bertoncello,

One way of thinking about villa and 'vicus consists of inquiring about means of characterizing these two kinds of settlements in a surface archaeological survey. According to this perspective rural settlement typologies using automatic classification method of sites from their surface look give a proper investigation field. The results of a typology established from 93 first century A. D. sites in the Var departement point out to the awkwardness of classification to make out clearly what is a villa or a group settlement. The descriptive appliance mainly based upon formal qualities of settlements does not allow us to discern which type of settlement is encountered. We have to look upon their insertion into the frame of contemporary settlements by analysis, the shape and the composition of the population net they belong to. A model of the local settlements nets in Frejus area during the 1st century A.D. points out to a specific geographic repartition of Villae and group settlements and the existence of nets of different structures according to their polarisation ta villae or settlements.