This book, offered to Béatrice Cauuet by her colleagues and friends, brings together more than seventy authors and over thirty contributions dealing with all the fields of the research she carried out during her career as researcher at the CNRS. The articles gathered here cover a large part of Europe and a broad chronology spanning from the Neolithic to the modern period. The structure of the volume follows this chronological path, which shows, over four millennia, the importance of the mines and metals for the ancient societies. Through presentations of mining sites or mining areas, ref lections on the tools, techniques and management of mining operations, as well as approaches dealing with the uses of metals, the economic and societal aspects of mining and metallurgical production are also revealed.

This book is included in DOAB.