L'habitat carolingien du Grand Longueron (Champlay, Yonne).

A large part of this book deals with historical interpretation which tries among others to piece together everyday life on a Carolingian farm, giving as many details as possible, using an ethno-archeological type process. All the same the interpretation goes further as it puts the settlement back in its socio-economic context and within a huge agricultural estate based in Champlay : a villa of an important land owner.
It also proves in a convincing way the creation of the settlement during a regional rise in temperature which led to an increase in the amount of land cultivated, hence agricultural production. Therefore, Grand Longueron holds a specific place among the current archaeological problems concerning rural settlements in the early middle ages in the northern part of France. As many others, this settlement was no doubt created in a new place, at the beginning of the Carolingian period, thus giving evidence of both an economic and demographic pressure. But contrary to many other settlements abandoned between the IXth and XIth century, this one was the origin of the medieval hamlet, the current heir of which is Grand Longueron. The result of this huge enquiry is the publication of an almost encyclopedic archeological and scientific work: 238 written pages, 120 illustrations, among which 48 plates, and more than 800 descriptions of excavated objects.