Urban archaeology and environmental data: the Lyon experience

Abstract

Restricted to the perimeter of Lyon, the City Archaeological Service has developed an adapted methodology to better exploit geoarcheological data in the context of a completely urbanized area.General characteristics of geoarcheological practices in urban areasConsidering environmental factors in the understanding of the shape, function, and even disappearance of archaeological remains, geoarchaeology is submitted to the following constraints in urban environments:quasi-complete disappearance of (...)