Books by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
Supplément Revue Archéologique de Narbonnaise n° 53, 2023
Contrairement aux réseaux d’alimentation romains, dont les structures tant monumentales que mod... more Contrairement aux réseaux d’alimentation romains, dont les structures tant monumentales que modestes ont fait l’objet de nombreux travaux, les réseaux d’évacuation sont souvent délaissés. Et lorsqu’elle est faite, leur étude se cantonne en général à une description succincte de certaines installations. De nombreuses questions demeuraient ainsi sans réponse : existe-t-il différents statuts entre les égouts, sont-ils présents dans la totalité des agglomérations romaines, comment s’organisent-ils, sont-ils efficaces, quelles formes peuvent-ils adopter, et quels liens entretiennent-ils avec le reste des aménagements urbains romains ? La présente étude s’est donnée pour ambition de répondre à la majorité de ces interrogations. Pour cela, l’analyse minutieuse du réseau d’évacuation d’une trentaine de quartiers antiques répartis dans six agglomérations de Gaule Narbonnaise (Fréjus, Glanum, Narbonne, Nîmes, Orange, Saint-Romain-en-Gal) a été réalisée. Les techniques utilisées dans la mise en place du réseau d’évacuation ont ainsi pu être étudiées et leur efficacité mesurée. Pour comprendre ce qui régissait l’installation, l’entretien et l’utilisation des structures évacuatrices, il a été nécessaire de confronter aux données archéologiques recueillies les sources historiques qui abordent, d’une manière ou d’une autre, ces installations méconnues.
While the Roman water supply network’s gigantic and modest structures have often been the focus of many studies, the sewer drainage system is often overlooked. Its study is usually limited to a brief description of certain parts of the system. Therefore many questions remained unanswered. What is the legal status governing the sewers? Are they widespread throughout Roman settlements? How are they organized? Are they efficient? How are they structured and how are they linked to other Roman urban infrastructures? This study aims to answer most of these questions. In order to achieve this, a detailed analysis of about thirty ancient neighborhoods in six settlements of Gaul of Narbonne (Fréjus, Glanum, Narbonne, Nîmes, Orange, Saint-Romain-en-Gal) was conducted. As a result, the techniques used in constructing the sewer systems have been studied and the effectiveness of the sewer system as a whole can start to be evaluated. It was necessary to compare the historical sources to the collected archaeological data addressing these rather unknown systems to better understand how the sewer system was run, the maintenance and usage of drainage infrastructures, the contextualization of the sewers in Roman daily life as envisioned by the Romans from their subjective point of view.
Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise, 2023
Coordination dossier : La gestion des eaux indésirables dans le monde romain sous la direction Je... more Coordination dossier : La gestion des eaux indésirables dans le monde romain sous la direction Jean-Baptiste Lebret, Sandrine Agusta-Boularot
Papers by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
Revue Archéologique de Narbonnaise, 2023
https://hal.science/hal-04118129
Frontière·s, 2022
Les réseaux hydrauliques en contexte urbain sont de nos jours extrêmement normés. Cette réglement... more Les réseaux hydrauliques en contexte urbain sont de nos jours extrêmement normés. Cette réglementation est le fruit d’importantes politiques urbaines empreintes des théories hygiénistes du xixe siècle. Ainsi, il existe actuellement deux frontières strictes qui structurent les systèmes hydrauliques : l’une entre les réseaux d’alimentation et les réseaux d’évacuation, l’autre entre les installations collectives gérées par l’autorité publique (ou une entreprise mandatée) et les aménagements privés. Ces séparations sont souvent reprises par les archéologues pour décrire et identifier les conduites hydrauliques retrouvées lors des fouilles archéologiques. À travers l’analyse de réseaux d’évacuation romains et la reprise de dossiers parfois connus, cette contribution propose une réflexion quant à la pertinence de l’utilisation de ces frontières pour étudier, dans le monde romain, les réseaux en contexte archéologique.
Water systems in an urban context are nowadays extremely standardized. This regulation is the result of important urban policies influenced by the hygienic theories of the 19th century. Thus, there are currently two strict boundaries that structure hydraulic systems: one between supply networks and drainage networks, the other between collective installations managed by the public authority (or a mandated company) and private developments. These separations are often used by archaeologists to describe and identify the hydraulic pipes found during archaeological excavations. Through the analysis of Roman drainage networks and the recovery of sometimes known files, this paper proposes a reflection on the relevance of using these boundaries to study networks in the Roman world in an archaeological context.
Ad Ostium Tiberis, Proceedings of the Conference Ricerche Archeologiche alla Foce del Tevere, Studia Academiae Belgicae, 2022
Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise, 2017
Historique des publications de la revue archéologique de Narbonnaise à l'occasion de ses 50 ans d... more Historique des publications de la revue archéologique de Narbonnaise à l'occasion de ses 50 ans d'existence
Talks by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
THESIS by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
Contrairement au réseau d'alimentation romain, dont les structures tant monumentales que modestes... more Contrairement au réseau d'alimentation romain, dont les structures tant monumentales que modestes ont fait l'objet de nombreux travaux, le réseau d'évacuation est souvent délaissé. Et lorsqu'elle est faite, son étude se cantonne en général à une description succincte de certaines des installations.
Conference announcement by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
https://eauxsalesantiq.sciencesconf.org/
Table-ronde (Lyon, 15.11.2019) organisée par B. Clément (Univ. Franche-Comté) et M. Lépée (Univ. ... more Table-ronde (Lyon, 15.11.2019) organisée par B. Clément (Univ. Franche-Comté) et M. Lépée (Univ. Lyon 2 / UNIL).
Call for papers by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
The application of quantitative methods in archaeology has grown exponentially over the past deca... more The application of quantitative methods in archaeology has grown exponentially over the past decades. This tendency towards quantification is mainly driven by the need to build more robust interpretations about the past, limiting the subjective factors of qualitative analyses. Quantification has gone hand in hand with the development and spread of digital tools, whose generalization has facilitated the replicability and reproducibility of archaeological studies. Besides, the application of quantitative and computational methods has allowed to address broader and more complex research questions and to handle far larger datasets. Even though over the past years there has been an increased emphasis on transparency and reproducibility in archaeological sciences, such efforts have often ended up in making available datasets with either raw data or extended information about the processed data, using either open repositories or papers' supplementary information. However, critical issues such as replicability and transferability of research methods are often left in the background. As a result, there has also been a proliferation of custom methodological protocols designed for and applied to a specific casestudy. We argue that this "methodological atomization" hinders our ability to compare results on a broader scale. Are we making the most effective use of the promising potentials of these digital and quantitative tools? This session seeks to bring together scholars from different disciplines (from paleoanthropology or lithics to ceramology or architecture) working on different periods (prehistoric and historic archaeology) who use well-defined workflows for data collection, analysis, and visualization. These practices should not only be conceived to allow research reproducibility, but also replicability, reuse of data and methods, and facilitation of methodological transfer across disciplines. We encourage presentations about specific case studies from different disciplines and periods, and dealing with questions at different scales, as well as formal strategies from research groups, projects, or institutions.
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Water is a resource of vital importance for humans, requiring efficient management and planning s... more Water is a resource of vital importance for humans, requiring efficient management and planning strategies for its use and control. Therefore, in Antiquity, hydraulic constructions were built to collect water from various sources (groundwater, rainwater or surface water) or to divert its flow. Likewise, although aqueducts, particularly in Roman times, allowed a greater supply in terms of water quality and quantity, it did not eliminate the practice of water catchment, which continued to be employed for a complementary use or with a storage strategy (to accumulate surplus or to avoid water shortages). We are referring to wells, cisterns, reservoirs, water channelling. These archaeological structures survived over time and were frequently reused, making certain dating difficult. In some cases, the typology of these structures is the result of the cultural influences of each community and its adaptation to the natural environment, otherwise a choice influenced by water law.
In this session we emphasize the importance of hydraulic infrastructures in the ancient world, with a particular focus on Europe and the Mediterranean region from Iron Age to Late Antiquity, both as exclusive or complementary means of water supply for human settlements, and also as a method of draining and evacuating water. Papers can present topographic, structural or volumetric analyses of these facilities, as well as their hydrogeological and environmental contextualisation. Contributions addressing methodological aspects focused on the research and archaeological record of these structures are also welcome, including remote sensing techniques for their detection, and GIS analysis. We also accept studies related to the historical background of these hydraulic constructions and their relationship to the cultural evolution of the ancient communities, as well as their role in water planning strategies.
Prolongation appel à contribution Colloque International jusqu'au 15 mai 2020 Montpellier, 15-16 ... more Prolongation appel à contribution Colloque International jusqu'au 15 mai 2020 Montpellier, 15-16 octobre 2020 Eaux sales, eaux troubles , eaux de ruissellement : la gestion des eaux indésirables dans le monde romain.
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Books by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
While the Roman water supply network’s gigantic and modest structures have often been the focus of many studies, the sewer drainage system is often overlooked. Its study is usually limited to a brief description of certain parts of the system. Therefore many questions remained unanswered. What is the legal status governing the sewers? Are they widespread throughout Roman settlements? How are they organized? Are they efficient? How are they structured and how are they linked to other Roman urban infrastructures? This study aims to answer most of these questions. In order to achieve this, a detailed analysis of about thirty ancient neighborhoods in six settlements of Gaul of Narbonne (Fréjus, Glanum, Narbonne, Nîmes, Orange, Saint-Romain-en-Gal) was conducted. As a result, the techniques used in constructing the sewer systems have been studied and the effectiveness of the sewer system as a whole can start to be evaluated. It was necessary to compare the historical sources to the collected archaeological data addressing these rather unknown systems to better understand how the sewer system was run, the maintenance and usage of drainage infrastructures, the contextualization of the sewers in Roman daily life as envisioned by the Romans from their subjective point of view.
Papers by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
Water systems in an urban context are nowadays extremely standardized. This regulation is the result of important urban policies influenced by the hygienic theories of the 19th century. Thus, there are currently two strict boundaries that structure hydraulic systems: one between supply networks and drainage networks, the other between collective installations managed by the public authority (or a mandated company) and private developments. These separations are often used by archaeologists to describe and identify the hydraulic pipes found during archaeological excavations. Through the analysis of Roman drainage networks and the recovery of sometimes known files, this paper proposes a reflection on the relevance of using these boundaries to study networks in the Roman world in an archaeological context.
Talks by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
THESIS by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
Conference announcement by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
Call for papers by Jean-Baptiste Lebret
In this session we emphasize the importance of hydraulic infrastructures in the ancient world, with a particular focus on Europe and the Mediterranean region from Iron Age to Late Antiquity, both as exclusive or complementary means of water supply for human settlements, and also as a method of draining and evacuating water. Papers can present topographic, structural or volumetric analyses of these facilities, as well as their hydrogeological and environmental contextualisation. Contributions addressing methodological aspects focused on the research and archaeological record of these structures are also welcome, including remote sensing techniques for their detection, and GIS analysis. We also accept studies related to the historical background of these hydraulic constructions and their relationship to the cultural evolution of the ancient communities, as well as their role in water planning strategies.
While the Roman water supply network’s gigantic and modest structures have often been the focus of many studies, the sewer drainage system is often overlooked. Its study is usually limited to a brief description of certain parts of the system. Therefore many questions remained unanswered. What is the legal status governing the sewers? Are they widespread throughout Roman settlements? How are they organized? Are they efficient? How are they structured and how are they linked to other Roman urban infrastructures? This study aims to answer most of these questions. In order to achieve this, a detailed analysis of about thirty ancient neighborhoods in six settlements of Gaul of Narbonne (Fréjus, Glanum, Narbonne, Nîmes, Orange, Saint-Romain-en-Gal) was conducted. As a result, the techniques used in constructing the sewer systems have been studied and the effectiveness of the sewer system as a whole can start to be evaluated. It was necessary to compare the historical sources to the collected archaeological data addressing these rather unknown systems to better understand how the sewer system was run, the maintenance and usage of drainage infrastructures, the contextualization of the sewers in Roman daily life as envisioned by the Romans from their subjective point of view.
Water systems in an urban context are nowadays extremely standardized. This regulation is the result of important urban policies influenced by the hygienic theories of the 19th century. Thus, there are currently two strict boundaries that structure hydraulic systems: one between supply networks and drainage networks, the other between collective installations managed by the public authority (or a mandated company) and private developments. These separations are often used by archaeologists to describe and identify the hydraulic pipes found during archaeological excavations. Through the analysis of Roman drainage networks and the recovery of sometimes known files, this paper proposes a reflection on the relevance of using these boundaries to study networks in the Roman world in an archaeological context.
In this session we emphasize the importance of hydraulic infrastructures in the ancient world, with a particular focus on Europe and the Mediterranean region from Iron Age to Late Antiquity, both as exclusive or complementary means of water supply for human settlements, and also as a method of draining and evacuating water. Papers can present topographic, structural or volumetric analyses of these facilities, as well as their hydrogeological and environmental contextualisation. Contributions addressing methodological aspects focused on the research and archaeological record of these structures are also welcome, including remote sensing techniques for their detection, and GIS analysis. We also accept studies related to the historical background of these hydraulic constructions and their relationship to the cultural evolution of the ancient communities, as well as their role in water planning strategies.