%0 Journal Article
%T Prol¨¦gom¨¨nes ¨¤ une histoire de la m¨¦tallurgie du fer au Levant Sud
%A Sylvain Bauvais
%J Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Fran£¿ais de J¨¦rusalem
%D 2008
%I Centre de Recherche Fran?ais de J¨¦rusalem (CRFJ)
%X La m¨¦tallurgie du fer au Levant sud a ¨¦t¨¦ tr¨¨s peu ¨¦tudi¨¦e, en dehors des premiers temps de son essor. Nous pr¨¦sentons dans cet article une sorte d¡¯¨¦tat des lieux des donn¨¦es disponibles sur cette m¨¦tallurgie et sur les relations commerciales qu¡¯elle a pu engendrer, depuis les premiers objets en fer jusqu¡¯¨¤ l¡¯Empire ottoman. Cette introduction souligne plus la tache qu¡¯il reste encore ¨¤ accomplir plut t qu¡¯elle ne donne une vision claire de l¡¯¨¦volution des techniques et de leur organisation au sein des diff¨¦rentes p¨¦riodes.La r¨¦gion se caract¨¦rise par une distribution de gisements min¨¦raux tr¨¨s irr¨¦guli¨¨re et de faible ampleur qui conduit tr¨¨s vite ¨¤ une situation de d¨¦pendance envers les r¨¦seaux d¡¯approvisionnement. Elle est ¨¦galement le th¨¦atre d¡¯une multitude de conqu¨ºtes militaires et d¡¯occupations qui ont apport¨¦ leur lot d¡¯innovations techniques mais aussi boulevers¨¦ les r¨¦seaux d¡¯acquisition de la mati¨¨re premi¨¨re en fonction des affinit¨¦s g¨¦opolitiques. The iron and steel metallurgy in the south Levant has been little studied apart its first period of development. A kind of overview is presented in this article, about data available on this metal industry and on the trade connections which it has been able to provoke, since the first iron objects until the Ottoman Empire. This introduction underlines most-of-all the task which it still remains to carry out rather than it gives a clear vision of the evolution of these techniques and of their organization within various periods.This region is characterized by a very irregular distribution of mineral deposits of a weak scale which leads very fast to a situation of dependence to networks of supplying. It is also the theater of a multitude of military conquests and occupations which brought their lot of technical innovations but also disrupt acquisition networks of the raw material according to their geopolitical kinship.
%K iron and steel industry
%K south Levant
%K diachronic study
%K crafts
%K networks of trade
%K raw material
%K history of techniques
%K sid¨¦rurgie
%K Levant sud
%K ¨¦tude diachronique
%K artisanat
%K commerce
%K mati¨¨re premi¨¨re
%K histoire des techniques
%U http://bcrfj.revues.org/5996