Archaeology of the passage of death

The contemporary emotion aroused by abandoned landscapes raises the theoretical question of the relationship between ruin, wear and tear and collapse. Here, we attempt to address this question through a concrete analysis of the material conditions of production and interpretation of archaeological remains, taking up the traditional case of abandoned villages. While the development of paradigms specific to the environmental sciences and archaeogeography, as part of the development of preventive archaeology, favours the transformation of landscapes over the long term, the passage of death still remains legible.

Contents

• At Wharram Percy, a disaster slow in coming
• The theatricality of abandoned landscapes: ruin porn and the evaporation of the world (Thomas Reverdy, Il était une ville, 2015)
• Michigan Central Station between Renaissance and collapse (Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, Detroit, vestiges of the American dream, 2010)
• La voiture du docteur Desourteaux à Oradour-sur-Glane ou le paradoxe des décombres (Laurent Olivier, Le Sombre Abîme du temps. Mémoire et archéologie, 2008)
• The Facciatone at Siena Cathedral in 1348: a time-stop ?
• "(Yves Renouard, "Conséquences et intérêt démographique de la Peste de 1348", Populations, 1948)
• Construction sites: an economy of recovery (Robert Lopez, "Économie et architecture médiévale. Would it have killed this?", Annales ESC, 1952)
• Maurice Beresford in search of England's lost villages
• Archéologie des villages désertés et traditions néo-malthusiennes d'histoire économique (Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Jean-Marie Pesez, "Les villages désertés en France: vue d'ensemble", Annales. ESC, 1965)
• "Le villaige du dit Draichez est du tout inhabitable et en désert": archaeology of abandonment (Jean-Marie Pesez, "Dracy, ou la nécessité de la fouille pour l'histoire de l'occupation des sols", Archéologie du village et de la maison rurale au Moyen Âge, 1998)
• Plague, war, plagues and environmental conjuncture: "the pandemic was triggered not because Yersinia pestis arrived in Europe, but because it arrived in 1347, at a time that climatic conditions made optimal for its spread" (Jean-Philippe Genet, "À propos de la 'grande transition': mesure et histoire", Histoire & Mesure, 2017)
• How to think together about the pandemic event and the spatial dynamics of rural settlement over the long term: MagalieWatteaux, " Évaluerla crise démographique de la peste noire (1347-1352) par ses conséquences sur le peuplement et les paysages. Des objets de recherche traditionnels aux nouveaux "proxys"" (presentation at the December 13, 2021 conference)
• Du défrichement à l'abandonment, réorganisation de l'habitat et recomposition des fortunes: Marie-Claude Taupin, "Le Hameau de Trainecourt, ^{XIIIe-XVesiècle} ", Ruralia I, 1995)
• Also in medieval Africa, large-scale spatial reorganizations and political refoundations (François-Xavier Fauvelle, "La peste comme Deus ex machina en histoire de l'Afrique", presentation at the June 22, 2021 symposium)
• Artifacts and ecofacts, the use of proxies : the example of lead pollution
• The ichthyological index: Benoît Clavel, "L'animal dans l'alimentation médiévale et moderne en France du Nord (^XIIIe-XVIIe siècles)", Revue archéologique de Picardie, 2001
• Palynologie et reforestation (Per Lageras dir., Environment, Society and the Black Death. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Late-Medieval Crisis in Sweden, 2015)
• In the mountains, enslaved space ?
• The new interpretative frameworks of preventive archaeology: historicity and geography
• Black earth is no longer the stuff of the Middle Ages (Quentin Borderie, L'espace urbain entre Antiquité et Moyen Âge, analyse géoarchéologique des terres noires : études de cas, 2011)
• For the new sedimentary historians, the^14th-century crisis is no longer legible (Joëlle Burnouf, Archéologie médiévale en France. Le second Moyen Âge (^{XIIe-XVIesiècle} ) 2008)
• Une archéologie des persécutions antisémites: quand la peste fait événement (Lukas Clemens, "Les communautés juives d'Europe", in Jean-Paul Demoule dir., L'Europe archéologique, 2021)
• A Black Death "treasure" in Colmar? A Jewish wedding ring hidden in 1348
• To salute a master of archaeological reversal (Yann Potin and Vincent Lemire, "Diogène historien : Yvon Thébert (1943-2002)", Afrique & Histoire, 2005