April 2017

Timber study makes it possible to date the traditional buildings (farms, barns, wine presses, mills, bridge ...) and specify the time variations of relationships between human societies, timber uses and forest management. The studied area is the Durance valley, and, more generally, the southern French Alps. The time window of this study is the medieval times, modern and contemporary periods, when a large amount of material (wood) is available.

A typical list of definitions for the phenomenon known as “climate” tends to range from simple phrases (“average weather”), to quotable sayings (“climate is what you expect, weather is what you get”), to generalized descriptions of a wide range of features associated with the term (“the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period ranging from months to thousands or millions of years”).

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