Aurelia Lureau

Come negli anni precedenti le indagini dell’équipe francese di Castrum Novum sono state possibili grazie al sostegno della Soprintendenza per i Beni archeologici dell’Etruria meridionale, dei centri di ricerca CRAE (Université de Picardie, UFR des Sciences historiques, artistiques et politiques), HALMA-IPEL (Université de Lille 3) dell’équipe AOROC (ENS-CNRS), dell’ANR CAECINA e del Comune di Santa Marinella. Ne approfittiamo per ringraziare la Soprintendente dott.ssa Alfonsina Russo, l’ispettrice di zona dott.ssa Rossella Zaccagnini, i colleghi Lorenzo Vinciguerra, Christophe Bident, Marie-Domitille Porcheron, Stéphane Verger, Vincent Jolivet et Kathérine Gruel, il sindaco di Santa Marinella Roberto Bacheca et il vice-sindaco arch. Carlo Pisacane, i membri dell’associazione Yacht Club di Santa Marinella, in particolare Claudio e Fiorenza Caneva, i membri dell’Associazione dei Pescatori Sportivi di Santa Marinella, Giovanni Biagioli e Fausto Bachetti per l’aiuto prezioso.
Durante la campagna del settembre 2014, ai lavori condotti nelle zone A e B hanno partecipato : Naouel Amrani, Michel Athanassiadis, Alice Bourgeois, Maxime Brugelli, Solène Chevalier, Arnaud Deigre, Vincent Godon, Anissa Guedda, Marine Leroy, Benjamin Paris, David Vattier. La documentazione grafica è stata curata da Véronique Picard (IRA-USR 3155 del CNRS, Université de Pau et du Pays d’Adour) e la restituzione fotogrammetrica è stata realizzata da Aurelia Lureau, dottoranda presso l’Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Cultural Heritage documentation in cave environnement using low-cost means for archaeologists. Case study of the Larchant caves in the Fontainebleau forest in France.

Aurelia Lureau, Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, aurelia@lureau.eu
Mehdi Belarbi, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives  (INRAP), mehdi.belarbi@inrap.fr
Pascal Raymond, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives  (INRAP), pascal.raymond@inrap.fr

Régis Touquet, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives  (INRAP), regis.touquet@inrap.fr

The "painting cave" of Larchant is located on the ovest edge of the stoneware plateau of the Fontainebleau forest which gives to the forest its peculiar aspect. The cave was discovered in 1959,
partially excavated, then excavated in the '80s and various numerous artifacts were discovered. The datation is from Mesolithic to the Middle-age, with a permanent dwelling since 8.000B.C.
But what makes this cave unique compared to the other prehistoric caves of this part of the
Fontainebleau forest is that there is a prehistoric painting and also numerous engravings dated from the beginning of the human presence to the modern era.
The project was proposed to us with two objectives : to catalog the engravings in 3D, and, if possible, to have 3D models precise enough to be able to use them in scientific ways. The long-term goal of the project is to realise a GIS of the prehistoric caves of the Fontainebleau forest for a public use via mobile app and a website. But our goal was to try and have precise enough 3dD models for the scientific interpretation of the archaeologists.
We only had reflex and bridge cameras and a theodolite, but we attempted the whole 3D model of the cave to create a map for the engravings and the painting, and then tried to georeferenciate all the models and do measurments on the engravings.

Paper in Session Virtual Reconstruction in Archaeology, CAA2014 Paris