Archeology
Preventive archaeology consists in detecting and safeguarding archaeological heritage elements affected or likely to be affected and destroyed by public or private development works.
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Our missions
The DRAC (regional archaeological service - SRA), in the field of preventive archaeology, studies, protects, preserves and promotes the archaeological heritage of the region. The SRA programs and monitors scientific research in the regions and disseminates the results.
- It ensures the application of legislation and regulations on archaeological excavations and finds, on the use of land and basements and on the protection of archaeological remains. (See "book V of the heritage code article R.523-1 et seq.");
- It prepares programming for planned excavations and annual surveys in accordance with national recommendations;
- It prescribes and controls the preventive archaeological operations (diagnostics and excavations) made necessary by the operations of spatial planning and implemented by various authorized operators. (Aids and procedures);
- It manages the file of deposits and excavations, and more generally of all archaeological documentation. As such, the SRA documentation is a resource open to all;
- Ensures publication of research results;
- Controls search depots;
- It ensures the link with the services of other partners (local authorities, operators...archaeological activity in the region, by engaging in particular actions of animation and information of the public.
Information resources
The vocation of the documentation of the Regional Archaeological Service is a priority to gather and manage all scientific documents (archaeological operations reports, books, journals, reprints, academic briefs, etc. ...) intended for the needs of the service, archaeologists and partners of local authorities. It also welcomes the public.
- The "archaeological map" carries out documentary files identifying and locating archaeological operations - or indices of sites - on the territory of the 1200 municipalities of Ile-de-France.
- The library brings together nearly 5,000 books and 150 journal titles, 1,400 reprints in prehistory and 600 in history.
Specialized in the Ile-de-France region, she has a substantial collection of Ile-de-France publications, including archaeological and heritage journals from local associations. More generally, various regional and thematic scientific journals as well as regional scientific reports from all over France are also kept.
The list of Regional Scientific Reviews published is available on the website of the Ministry of Culture and Communication: http://www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Politiques-ministerielles/Archeologie/Valoriser/Diffusion-scientifique
Since summer 2014, the SRA library references all its new acquisitions (monographs, conference proceedings, articles, etc., dealing mainly with archaeological research in Ile-de-France, and dealing with all periods, from prehistory to the contemporary period) collective catalogue FRANTIQ https://www.frantiq.fr/. It also indicates, as and when, the collection status (years and issues) of the journals it maintains.
In addition, a cataloguing in FRANTIQ of its acquisitions prior to the summer of 2014 is underway.
In total, at the end of October 2023, nearly 3,300 references kept in the SRA library are reported in the Frantiq catalogue.
How to get to the Regional Archaeological Service (RAS) Library New Acquisitions Lists
To access the Frantiq website, presenting the network, its news, the PACTOLS thesaurus, etc.:
Menu Catalogue, click on View catalogue
- Then scroll down the Lists menu bar (located at the top of the site)
All our other purchase lists begin with "IFRA" (IFRA being the abbreviated name of the SRA Ile-de-France library in the Frantiq library network).
Retrouplease read the references ofs recent publications on archaeology in Ile-de-France thanks to the group Zotero SFA:
Zotero is a software to store bibliographic references and write them automatically by choosing a style among many different styles. The Zotero library of the SRA is offered as a showcase for all audiences interested in recent scientific publications on archaeology in Ile-de-France.
Interlocutors
Documentary studies, library and documentation Ms Marie-Alice VIRLOUVET
Programme of an outsourced digitization site for archaeological operations reports
In 2020-2021,The SRA has made the digitization and the océrisation of the archaeological operations reports that it preserves, from the oldest until 2004. It remains to digitize the reports of the period 2004-2012
Authorized operators
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