Warning:

The data comes from archaeological sites, essentially directly related to human activity. Species presence can have a varied origin: food leftovers (farming, hunting, fishing or harvesting); crafts (working shell, horn, but also bones preserved inside prepared skin, etc ...) with the possibility of interaction between human group; commensal anthropophilic species (rat, mouse, sparrow, cockroach); or accidentally present species.

Do not be surprised to find cod or mackerel in Paris in the late Middle Ages (14th-15th c.)... The sea did not come that far, but trade did.

In compliance with laws and intellectual property practices in the scientific world, unpublished data under five years (from excavation reports, analyses, but also academia) is never communicated.

The dots represent the sites for which a study (or a simple recording) of fauna and / or flora was performed; these sites were recorded in the database Zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical inventories of France (I2AF) . The lack of dots can mean both a lack of data and / or lack of recording.

The dots remain gray when the selected species is absent from the site. Symbols of different colour mark the presence of the species in different periods.

To select / deselect one or more periods or to remove the dots corresponding to the listed sites, check / uncheck in the right side.

Hovering a dot reveals in the left corner at the bottom of the map, the name of the department or municipality. One click enables the list of sites present on the municipality.

The selection of a site opens a new page that displays general information relating thereto (other name(s) known, location...), the bibliographical reference(s) connected to the species, and a summary of plant and animal species identified per large time period.

A zoom per department facilitates the reading and the selection of municipality.

A timeline summarizes all known information on the species. The relevant periods or sub-periods when the detail is known, are highlighted in red.
Tool tip: passing over a period (Palaeolithic for example) displays the date range of the period.

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Access to more detailed information is accessible only by convention, after login, for scientists affiliated to groups or institutional programs (National Center of Scientific Research, National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research, for example) or associations (International Council for Archaeozoology, for example).