Articles by Christophe Tufféry

2012 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Harmonisation des méthodes et outils pour l’information archéologique à l’Inrap: constats, enjeux et perspectives pour un établissement national

Alain Koehler, Christophe Tufféry

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The design and progressive implementation of an Archaeological Information System (AIS) at Inrap aims to meet the needs for improving archaeological reasoning as well as regulatory requirements. The term of AIS means here a coherent and organized set of resources (people, data, methods, processes, hardware, software, etc.) to acquire, organize, store, manage, analyze, and publish relevant archaeological information from various forms and sources. The overall objective is to enable Inrap to get consistent and harmonized archaeological information of known quality and managed according to interoperability. This project utilizes several studies and real situation experiments among which those produced for GIS in collaboration with CNRS and University F. Rabelais of Tours (UMR 6173 CITERES).

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2012, Supplemento 3, 229-238

2008 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Utilisation d’un site web intégré de webmapping et de gestion de contenus. L’exemple de recherches en cours en pétroarchéologie du silex appliquée au Paléolithique moyen

Christophe Tufféry, Paul Fernandes, Pierre-André Le Ny

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The nature of flints used in prehistory is essential information for increasing our knowledge of old settlements. The study of this raw material as well as the identification of its source, contribute to the evaluation of the mobility of prehistoric men and their behavior in relation to mineral resources, thus contributing to a better understanding of certain problems related to prehistoric economies. An innovative multi-field approach, based on a series of geological surveys of the siliceous formations of the French Massif Central, of Morocco and of northern Bulgaria, makes it possible today to better determine the limits of the areas exploited. The study is based on a complete examination of the evolution of flint on three scales (macroscopy, microscopy, ultramicroscopy) thus representing an improvement over petro-archaeology which traditionally uses the methods of petrography, mineralogy and micropaleontology. Moreover, the reconstitution of the initial shapes of material clarifies the technical procedures implemented for their exploitation. This methodological innovation, based on a rigorous sampling, makes it possible to present the results of an integrated analysis of the geological samples in their areas of natural diffusion. It proposes a refined paleogeographic vision of the removal made by men in these areas and of their anthropic and natural transformation at the archaeological site. The original diffusion of this scientific study, which is still in progress, is based on a platform of content management and groupware, called Map’N, which integrates access to cartographic webservices and online functions of geocoding of the iconographic and cartographic documents used or produced by these research projects.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2008, 19, 153-166; doi: 10.19282/ac.19.2008.12