ECVAU

The aim of this paper is to highlight the need to carry out field surveys among populations still practising traditional earthen architecture. By adopting an ethnoarchaeological approach, this work documents a disappearing intangible heritage while exploring technical exchanges within present-day communities, offering new research perspectives for understanding the mechanisms linked to the emergence and development of earthen architecture in the Neolithic Near East.

It forms part of the study day on ‘Reactualisation of pre-industrial materials and know-how, historical perspectives’, organised by the EnVironnements numériques, Cultures Architecturales et Urbaines (EVCAU) laboratory and the École nationale d’architecture Paris-Val de Seine.

Poster and programme