English translation: rescue digs [here preferred], rescue archaeology [the general term]
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French term or phrase:
fouilles de sauvetage
English translation:
rescue digs [here preferred], rescue archaeology [the general term]
French to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Archaeology / Digs
French term or phrase:fouilles de sauvetage
I get the general idea, but what is the "terme consacrée"?
Thanks.
I've also got "science consacrée" in relation to archaeology: "l'émergence de l'archaeologie en tant que...", which I believe means "science in its own right" or "as a separate science"...
Explanation: e.g. when a motorway is being built and the surveyors come across some important Iron Age finds right in its path. The work is held up for an agreed period while the archaeological team races against time to chart and record the site for posterity.
"science consacrée": "a science in its own right" seems most apt.
Lunchbreak and possibly a siesta in 5 mins!!! Thanks Bourth, informative as usual. Re builders' gripes: concepts of what constitutes "progress" vary, I guess.
The asker has declined this answer Comment: Sorry, my fault for lapsing into Franglais - I want the accepted standard translation of "fouilles de sauvetage".
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rescue digs [here preferred], rescue archaeology [the general term]
Explanation: e.g. when a motorway is being built and the surveyors come across some important Iron Age finds right in its path. The work is held up for an agreed period while the archaeological team races against time to chart and record the site for posterity.
"science consacrée": "a science in its own right" seems most apt.
IanDhu France Local time: 18:03 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 4
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Thanks Adam!
12 mins confidence:
archaeological mitigation
Explanation: Or some other way of introducing "mitigation".
The EIS for the motorway was accepted by the National Monuments Section and the
recommended archaeological mitigation strategy was approved. ... www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIPol.nsf/0/ c482804d1d7ed85980256de4004092ad/$FILE/EAA%20Duffy%20statement.doc
Archaeological Services WYAS undertook an archaeological mitigation
strategy and ... Holmfield Interchange in advance of the main motorway works ... www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/ a_roads/a1/darrington_dishforth/details/page05.htm
In France, whenever a construction project covering a certain minimum area is to go ahead, the zone must first yield up any archaeological interest. This involves archaeologists excavating trenches covering 10% (?) of the total surface area, to a depth of 50 cm. As someone pointed out at a local council meeting, it's really pretty pointless - but compulsory nonetheless - when you know that the ground concerned has been built up 80cm with imported fill in the last 50 years!
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What really annoys builders is that there is no requirement for the archaeologists to backfill their trenches once they have finished!
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I guess \"rescue digs\" is another side of the same coin, in circumstances where one is not required to carry out an archaeological survey beforehand, or where the survey fails to detect items of interest.
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But the text below indicates \"archeological mitigation\" was carried out before construction of the road even started. Having determined that the sites were worthy of interest (but not preserving intact), \"data recovery excavations\" (rescue digs?) were carried out.
MSG conducted phase III archeological mitigation excavation at two prehistoric sites, 33WY674 to and 33WY783, in Antrim Township, Wyandot County, Ohio. These studies were completed for the Ohio Department of Transportation as part of the U.S. Route 30 relocation project. Phase I and II investigations of the sites concluded both sides were eligible for the national register of historic places, and as a result, phase III data recovery excavations were undertaken by MSG to mitigate the effects of the proposed highway.
MSG conducted phase III archeological mitigation excavation at two prehistoric sites, 33WY674 to and 33WY783, in Antrim Township, Wyandot County, Ohio. These studies were completed for the Ohio Department of Transportation as part of the U.S. Route 30 relocation project. Phase I and II investigations of the sites concluded both sides were eligible for the national register of historic places, and as a result, phase III data recovery excavations were undertaken by MSG to mitigate the effects of the proposed highway.
[http://www.msi-mec.com/experience/p3arch.htm]
I THINK \"fouilles de sauvetage\" refers to saving what MIGHT be there but which is not known about, i.e. preventing putting things of interest under tons of concrete without even realizing it, rather than (solely) saving what is known to be there beforehand.
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Confirmed:
Rue Saint Jean :
1992 : La réalisation d\'un chemin communal perpendiculaire à la rue Saint Jean donne lieu à des fouilles de sauvetage (Barbé, Barret, 1993). Ils ***découvrent*** des murs appartenant probablement à un bâtiment lié au groupe épiscopal.
1993 : A l\'occasion de la construction d\'un pavillon, des fouilles de sauvetage sont entreprises sous la direction d\'H. Barbé (Service Régional de l\'Archéologie). Cette parcelle (propriété de Mr Tétart) ***recelait*** des vestiges de maisons (XIème- XIIème siècle) installées en front de rue et un important mur gallo-romain parallèle à la rue dont la destination est encore inconnue.
[http://perso.wanadoo.fr/therouannearcheo/fouillesarcheo.htm]
xxxBourth Local time: 18:03 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 57
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