USES AND EXPLOTATION OF PLASTER THROUGH LONG DURATION IN CONTRUCTION IN ILE DE FRANCE
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2020-10-26

Gypsum is one of the most important stone ressource in Ile-de-France (region of Paris). As a consequence, plaster has been the most important building material used since Middle Ages. It also has largely been used for render and decoration. However the modern gypsum explotation is well known asmuch by the legislation which begins to be described in the Renaissance than by the quarries before industrialisation, the explotation during Antiquity and Middle Ages is nearly unknown : only two medieval quarries are documented by archaeology.


Author(s): Ivan, Lafarge (Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis)