Regional Archaeological Service
The regional department of archaeology is responsible for implementing, in the region, the policy of the State in the field of archaeology and more particularly to carry out the following missions: inventory, study, protect and promote the archaeological heritage of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Its field of action extends from the origins of man, in the region, around 1 million years B.C. until yesterday, in the six departments of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Address of the Regional Archaeological Service :
Bât. Austerlitz, 21 allée Claude Forbin, CS 80783 13625 Aix-en-Provence cedex 1
Preventive archaeology
The law for preventive archaeology Enacted in 2001, it has been amended several times since. This act is an important step in archaeology policy. The increase of public or private works, known in the last twenty years, has, in fact, deeply concerned soil and subsoil and gave rise to numerous operations of preventive excavations. It was then necessary to reconcile the constraints of a scientific research work and the imperatives of the development of the layout and construction.
The current legislation proposes the following:
- definition of preventive archaeology and the role of the State. The State Services draw up and update the national archaeological map and prescribe measures for the detection, conservation or safeguarding by scientific study of the archaeological heritage;
- Public monopoly (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research and Approved Local and Regional Authorities) for carrying out diagnostics and opening to competition for carrying out excavations, subject to state approval;
- implementation of a general flat-rate fee for the financing of preliminary diagnoses and excavation operations paid by developers;
- right of custody of movable remains of a maximum duration of 2 years for the operator of the excavation. Ownership by the owner of the land over half of the furniture inventoried;
A decree provided for by the law completes and specifies the devices: decree 2004-490 made for the application of the law and relating to administrative and financial procedures in preventive archaeology.
Orientations
There are 6 territorial commissions for archaeological research. They are established by the Decree 2017-156 of 8 February 2017 on the National Council for Archaeological Research and the Territorial Commissions for Archaeological Research (Official Journal of 10 February 2017) pursuant to Article 71 of Law No. 2016-925 of 7 July 2016 on freedom of creation, architecture and heritage.
The territorial commission of archaeological research South-East consists of the regions Corsica, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Its headquarters are in Aix-en-Provence.
It is chaired by the Prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
It includes 10 members representing the CNRS, Higher Education, the Ministry of Culture, INRAP, the Local Authorities, a licensed operator for preventive archaeology and four specialists (Prehistory, Protohistory, Middle Ages, Antiquity).
A heritage inspector from the Directorate-General for Heritage and the regional curators of archaeology attend the committee sessions, after which a report is drawn up.
The experts of the commission carry out the scientific evaluation of the archaeological operations and their results. It shall be consulted on all questions submitted to it by the representative of the State in the regions. It formulates all proposals and opinions on the whole archaeological activity including studies and publications.
At the end of their four-year mandate, the experts draw up a report on the activity of archaeological research.
The types of action carried out by the service
- the constitution of the regional archaeological map in a database. For each site, the database provides topographic information (commune, locality, coordinates...), archaeological (remains, dating...), administrative (classification, excavation...), and source references (bibliography, prospections...) (consultation reserved ) ;
- research coordination: scheduled searches and rescues, research programmes;
- the scientific publication: Documents d'Archéologie, Bilan scientifique annuel;
- the protection and enhancement of sites;
- the conservation and management of archaeological scientific data in the Centres of Conservation and Study (CCE);
- mounting of dossier exposures;
- the coordination of cultural activities with the National Education, interventions in the university environment;
- documentation: the documentary collection relating to heritage and archaeology;
- the census of excavation sites open to volunteers in Paca;
- border and international cooperation.
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