Titre : Applying the Concept of Panarchy in Archaeogeography: the Example of the Resilience of Routes over the Longue Durée Auteurs : Sandrine Robert, Revue : Archaeology, Society and Environment Numéro : Issue 1:
Résilience and Landscape Volume : 2 Date : 2021/01/25 DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0614 ISSN : 2752-4507 Résumé : This paper discusses the application of the resilience conceptual framework, proposed in ecological resilience, to the study of major route systems, described as resilient systems. Major routes in the north of France are studied at the macro-, meso-, and micro-scales. The analysis shows that a large part of the current French network originated in Antiquity. Nevertheless, no one specific road is resilient throught time. Rather, the itineraries are made of several paths and roads that may coexist, substitute one another, or are abandoned but then re-used. Three levels, corresponding to different rhythms of change, interact and account for the routes’ resilience. The itinerary represents the macro-scale: broad and slow level (up until 2,000 years), while at the micro-scale, the structure of paths and roads undergoes numerous and frequent changes (less than 25 years). On the meso-scale, the path and road patterns present non-linear temporalities and appear as a key level for routes’ resilience with possibilities of hiatuses, reuses, etc. The complex dynamic of routes can match the concepts of adaptive cycle and panarchy proposed by C. S. Holling and collaborators. Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience