Alexandre Disser
@cnrs.fr/fr
Institut National des Sciences Humaines et Sociales
10
Scopus Publications
343
Scholar Citations
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Scholar h-index
11
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Scopus Publications
- Hidden riches in the Early Medieval Rhine Delta: Iron working at Merovingian Oegstgeest
Tobias Heal, Alexandre Disser, Florence Mercier, Guillaume Sarah, and Frans Theuws
Elsevier BV - The medieval bombards of Meaux: Manufacturing processes and supply of the metal
Emilie Bérard, Philippe Dillmann, Alexandre Disser, Enrique Vega, Catherine Verna, and Valérie Toureille
Elsevier BV - Transformations of the chemical signature of slag inclusions throughout experimental refining and first shaping of bloomery iron: New methodological developments
Alexandre Disser, Sylvain Bauvais, and Philippe Dillmann
Elsevier BV - Multi-classifier majority voting analyses in provenance studies on iron artefacts
Grzegorz Żabiński, Jarosław Gramacki, Artur Gramacki, Ewelina Miśta-Jakubowska, Thomas Birch, and Alexandre Disser
Elsevier BV - A 15th century ear-dagger and its scabbard from the found at castel-minier (French pyrenees)
Florian Téreygeol, Alexandre Disser, Julien Flament, and Guillaume Sarah
Editorial CSIC
[fr] Il est peu commun de mettre au jour de l’armement dans un contexte archéologique minier. La découverte faite à Castel-Minier est d’autant plus importante qu’elle est intervenue dans un contexte archéologique maitrisé. Elle met en lumière une dague à oreilles de la fin du XVe siècle qui diffère largement de celles connues dans les collections par sa sobriété. C’est la première fois que cet équipement offensif est découvert en contexte archéologique. Au-delà de la raison d’être de ce poignard dans une mine d’argent au XVe siècle, son étude permet de mettre en lumière pour la première fois une dague à oreilles de facture catalane destinée à un marché bien différent de celui des exemplaires connus dans la bibliographie. - The ties that bind: archaeometallurgical typology of architectural crampons as a method for reconstructing the iron economy of Angkor, Cambodia (tenth to thirteenth c.)
S. Leroy, M. Hendrickson, S. Bauvais, E. Vega, T. Blanchet, A. Disser, and E. Delque-Kolic
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - ‘Guard the Good Deposit’: Technology, Provenance and Dating of Bipyramidal Iron Semi-Products of the Durrenentzen Deposit (Haut-Rhin, France)
S. Bauvais, M. Berranger, M. Boukezzoula, S. Leroy, A. Disser, E. Vega, M. Aubert, P. Dillmann, and P. Fluzin
Wiley
In the early days of iron metallurgy in Western Europe, the most widespread type of ‘trade iron’ (semi-product) was bipyramidal in shape. Although they are frequently found, little is known about how they were manufactured and circulated, or even about their age. An interdisciplinary approach was applied to the Durrenentzen deposit (Haut-Rhin, France), the third-largest in Europe in terms of artefact quantities, in an attempt to reconstruct the technological, social and economic context that caused them to be abandoned. A morphometric study of the 51 iron bars revealed a high degree of homogeneity, despite variations in detail. Four objects were selected for archaeometric studies. Metallographic analyses show internal differences (quality of the material, nature of the alloys and manufacturing techniques). Chemical analyses also showed different provenances. Finally, radiocarbon analyses of the carbon in steel (iron/carbon alloy) linked this deposit to the early Iron Age. This study provided the first benchmark for more general research, significantly changing perceptions of the economics of iron at the beginning of the Iron Age. - Circulation of iron products in the North-Alpine area during the end of the first Iron Age (6<sup>th</sup>-5<sup>th</sup> c. BC): A combination of chemical and isotopic approaches
Philippe Dillmann, Roland Schwab, Sylvain Bauvais, Michael Brauns, Alexandre Disser, Stéphanie Leroy, Guntram Gassmann, and Philippe Fluzin
Elsevier BV - Iron Supply for the Building of Metz Cathedral: New Methodological Development for Provenance Studies and Historical Considerations
A. Disser, PH. Dillmann, M. Leroy, M. L'Héritier, S. Bauvais, and PH. Fluzin
Wiley
This paper develops new reflections regarding the provenance of iron artefacts, by defining the trade networks that might have supplied the building yard of the Metz city belfry at the end of the 15th century. Regional field surveys were carried out in Lorraine in order to constitute a chemical repository, including ironmaking zones considered as the most probable metal providers. The chemical characterization—both major and trace elements—of slag inclusions entrapped in the metallic matrix of iron reinforcements was performed in order to compare their chemical signature to the reference set. A statistical approach based on the combined use of descriptive multivariate analyses was developed to infer the origin of the metal supplied to the building yard. As the multiplicity of potential metal providers was assessed from former studies, the results obtained underline the place taken by local workshops in the supply strategy developed by the builders. This study thus provides crucial information supporting a discussion about the scale and the organization of such networks at the end of the Middle Ages - Technological analysis, provenance study and radiocarbon dating of iron bipyramidal semi-products of the durrenentzen deposit (Haut-Rhin, France): A renewed vision of the iron economy during iron age i
Marion Berranger, Sylvain Bauvais, Mostepha Boukezzoula, Stéphanie Leroy, Alexandre Disser, Enrique Vega, Michel Aubert, Philippe Dillmann, and Philippe Fluzin
OpenEdition
Durant les premiers temps de la metallurgie du fer en Europe occidentale, le type de demi-produit le plus repandu est de forme bipyramidee. Bien que plus d'un millier de pieces soit connu, leurs conditions de fabrication et de circulation et meme leur datation restent mal apprehendees Une approche interdisciplinaire a ainsi ete appliquee au depot de demi-produits bipyramides de Durrenentzen (Haut-Rhin), le troisieme en Europe par son importance numerique, afin de reconstituer le contexte technologique, social et economique qui a conduit a son abandon. L’etude morphometrique des cinquante-et-un bipyramides revele une grande homogeneite globale du lot malgre des variations de detail. Quatre objets ont ete selectionnes pour etudes archeometriques. Les analyses metallographiques mettent en evidence des differences internes significatives en ce qui concerne la qualite des materiaux, la nature de l’alliage et les techniques de fabrication. Les analyses chimiques revelent egalement des signatures differenciees. Enfin, des analyses radiocarbones realisees sur le carbone contenu dans les aciers permettent de rattacher ce lot au premier âge du Fer. Les resultats de l’etude de ce depot exceptionnel permettent ainsi d’implanter le premier jalon d’une analyse plus generale modifiant significativement la perception de l’economie du fer au premier âge de Fer. - Lead it be! Identifying the construction phases of gothic cathedrals using lead analysis by LA-ICP-MS
Maxime L'Héritier, Adrien Arles, Alexandre Disser, and Bernard Gratuze
Elsevier BV - The bridge of dieulouard (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France): A fresh perspective on metal supply strategies in carolingian economy
Alexandre Disser, Philippe Dillmann, Marc Leroy, Paul Merluzzo, and Stéphanie Leroy
OpenEdition
A rescue excavation has unearthed the remains of a bridge crossing the Moselle River at Dieulouard (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France). This constitutes one of the rare examples of non-religious monumental architecture from the Carolingian period in France. The present archaeometrical study, conducted on a set of architectural iron fastenings, provides an opportunity to examine the modalities through which early medieval building yards acquired ferrous materials. Located within the vicinity of active ironmaking zones, a hypothesis was subsequently put forward that the iron supply was provided by a local market. The results nevertheless highlight a more complex acquisition strategy than expected, relying at least partially on metal salvaging. This study therefore stimulates current discussions of the importance of recycling in the Carolingian economy, and of the value attributed to material and its transformation. - Iron reinforcements in Beauvais and Metz Cathedrals: From bloomery or finery? The use of logistic regression for differentiating smelting processes
A. Disser, P. Dillmann, C. Bourgain, M. L'Héritier, E. Vega, S. Bauvais, and M. Leroy
Elsevier BV
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Acies Ferri: construction and provenance of Merovingian seaxes from 5th-8th century Alsace
T Heal, A DISSER, T FISCHBACH
HMS Research in Progress meeting 2024 - Les techniques et la trs longue dure: rflexions croises
F Jarrige, JB Fressoz, A Marrec, M Durand, A Disser
Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines, 207-227 2024 - Acies Ferri. Fabrication de scramasaxes mrovingiens retrouvs en Alsace
T Heal, A Disser
Journe d'tude de la SAFEMM 2024 - Recherches rcentes sur l’histoire sidrurgique des Pyrnes franaises orientales (Arige et Pyrnes-Orientales)
A Disser, G Pags
L'analyse rgionale des productions primaires de fer 2024 - La base de donnes CHIPS
A Disser, L Costa
Rencontres annuelles de la SAFEMM 2024 - Etude d’un chantier mdival: Matriaux, techniques et provenance
A Disser
2024 - Le val Saint-Barthlemy Champigneulles (Meurthe-et-Moselle) au XIVe sicle, tmoin matriel d’initiatives techniques en mtallurgie
A Disser
2024 - Les dynamiques d’extraction et de production du fer dans la moiti orientale des Pyrnes de la Protohistoire l’utilisation de la force hydraulique au Moyen ge
G Pags, A Disser
VIIe Rencontre d’archologie dpartementale 2024 - The iron industry in the eastern half of the Pyrenees from Antiquity to the 17th century: new data and research perspectives
G Pags, A Disser, C Verna, P Dillmann, L Costa, J Mach, JN Lamiable, ...
Archaeometallurgy in Europe 2024 - What might iron circulation have looked like in the Merovingian north-western Europe? From initial results to future research
A Disser, T Heal, F Theuws, SB De Sigoyer
Archaeometallurgy in Europe 2024 - De la truelle la toile. Acquisition, traitement et diffusion de donnes archologiques et physico-chimiques
A Disser, G Pags
Sminaire'Matrialit' 2024 - Hidden riches in the Early Medieval Rhine Delta: Iron working at Merovingian Oegstgeest
T Heal, A Disser, F Mercier, G Sarah, F Theuws
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 53, 104236 2024 - Le site de hauteur du Roc de Malbzi Quirbajou et Marsa (Aude)
F Guillot, A Despratx, A Le Saout, R Trton, P Pergent, A Disser
Traces 2024 - Rapport intermdiaire 2024 du Programme Collectif de Recherche (2024-2026) le FER en Arige et dans les Pyrnes-Orientales (PCR FERAPO)
A Disser, G Pags, P Fernandez, MC Jolly-Saad, JN Lamiable, ...
CNRS; Ministre de la culture et de la communication; Drac-SRA Occitanie 2024 - Recherches sur l’extraction et le traitement des minerais de fer en Arige, de l’Antiquit l’poque contemporaine
A Disser, C Dubois, JN Lamiable
Journe dpartementale de l'archologie en Arige 2023, 102-117 2024 - Rapport d'expertise sur le projet de publication ‘Ateliers de production du fer et savoir-faire techniques en Lorraine aux 13e-15e sicles’
A Disser
Ministre de la culture; CNRS 2024 - Rapport d'expertise sur le projet de fouille du site de Saint-Nicolas 2 (Steinbach, Haut-Rhin)-2024
A Disser
Ministre de la culture; CNRS 2024 - Acies Ferri: Archaeometallurgical Study of Merovingian Seaxes and Swords from Alsace
TS Heal, T Fischbach, A Disser
The World of Iron at 10 2023 - Au-del de la typologie: l'apport des analyses palomtallurgiques pour l'tude de l'armement mrovingien
T Fischbach, TS Heal, A Disser, L Van Wersch
L’objet mrovingien: de sa fabrication sa (re-) dcouverte 2023 - De terre, de verre et de fer. Regards croiss sur les productions mrovingiennes de Huy
L Van Wersch, A Disser, SB de Sigoyer, C Pters, G Pags
L'objet mrovingien. De sa fabrication sa (re-) dcouverte 2023
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Iron reinforcements in Beauvais and Metz Cathedrals: from bloomery or finery? The use of logistic regression for differentiating smelting processes
A Disser, P Dillmann, C Bourgain, M L'Hritier, E Vega, S Bauvais, ...
Journal of archaeological science 42, 315-333 2014
Citations: 77 - Iron supply for the building of Metz cathedral: new methodological development for provenance studies and historical considerations
A Disser, PH Dillmann, M Leroy, M l'Hritier, S Bauvais, PH Fluzin
Archaeometry 59 (3), 493-510 2017
Citations: 53 - Circulation of iron products in the North-Alpine area during the end of the first Iron Age (6th-5th c. BC): A combination of chemical and isotopic approaches
P Dillmann, R Schwab, S Bauvais, M Brauns, A Disser, S Leroy, ...
Journal of Archaeological Science 87, 108-124 2017
Citations: 51 - The ties that bind: archaeometallurgical typology of architectural crampons as a method for reconstructing the iron economy of Angkor, Cambodia (tenth to thirteenth c.)
S Leroy, M Hendrickson, S Bauvais, E Vega, T Blanchet, A Disser, ...
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10, 2137-2157 2018
Citations: 35 - Multi-classifier majority voting analyses in provenance studies on iron artefacts
G Żabiński, J Gramacki, A Gramacki, E Miśta-Jakubowska, T Birch, ...
Journal of Archaeological Science 113, 105055 2020
Citations: 28 - Provenance et circulation des alliages ferreux
S Leroy, P Dillmann, A Disser, M L'Hritier, S Bauvais, P Fluzin
Circulation et provenance des matriaux et des objets dans les socits 2014
Citations: 23 - ‘Guard the Good Deposit’: Technology, Provenance and Dating of Bipyramidal Iron Semi‐Products of the Durrenentzen Deposit (Haut‐Rhin, France)
S Bauvais, M Berranger, M Boukezzoula, S Leroy, A Disser, E Vega, ...
Archaeometry 60 (2), 290-307 2018
Citations: 19 - Production et circulation du fer en Lorraine (VIe s. av. J.-C.-XVe s. ap. J.-C.)
A Disser
Universit de technologie de Belfort-Montbliard 2014
Citations: 18 - Transformations of the chemical signature of slag inclusions throughout experimental refining and first shaping of bloomery iron: New methodological developments
A Disser, S Bauvais, P Dillmann
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 34, 102653 2020
Citations: 14 - Analyse technologique, tude de provenance et datation par le radiocarbone du dpt de demi-produits ferreux de Durrenentzen (Haut-Rhin, France): une vision renouvele de l
M Berranger, S Bauvais, M Boukezzoula, S Leroy, A Disser, E Vega, ...
ArcheoSciences. Revue d'archomtrie, 45-67 2017
Citations: 13 - The bridge of Dieulouard (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France): a fresh perspective on metal supply strategies in Carolingian economy
A Disser, P Dillmann, M Leroy, P Merluzzo, S Leroy
ArcheoSciences. Revue d'archomtrie, 149-161 2016
Citations: 12 - Lead it be! Identifying the construction phases of gothic cathedrals using lead analysis by LA-ICP-MS
M L'Hritier, A Arles, A Disser, B Gratuze
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6, 252-265 2016
Citations: 11 - The Alsatian Altenberg: a seven-hundred-year laboratory for silver metallurgy
J Gauthier, P Fluck, A Disser, C Chteau
Archaeometallurgy in Europe III. Der Anschnitt Beiheft 26 2015
Citations: 11 - Dernires avances des tudes sur la production, la circulation et la datation des mtaux ferreux archologiques
P Dillmann, S Leroy, A Disser, S Bauvais, E Vega, P Fluzin
Les nouvelles de l'archologie, 28-34 2015
Citations: 10 - La mtallurgie du fer l'ge du Fer dans le bassin versant du Crould: organisation des productions et tude de provenance
S Bauvais, A Disser, P Dillmann
Les sites ruraux du second ge du Fer dans le bassin versant du Crould en 2018
Citations: 9 - Le fer des principauts:L’conomie du fer dans le nord-est de la France au Hallstatt D et La Tne A1
S Bauvais, M Berranger, P Dillmann, A Disser, S Leroy, P Fluzin
Vix et le phnomne princier. Colloque international de Vix, 27-28 octobre 2016 2021
Citations: 6 - Le chantier de la tour de Mutte Metz: regards sur la production du fer en Lorraine la fin du Moyen ge. Fouille de donnes, analyses prdictives et traitement spatial des
A Disser, M L’Hritier, P Dillmann, A Arles
Journal de la Socit franaise de Statistique 158 (2), 13-39 2017
Citations: 6 - L’H ritier M., Bauvais S., Fluzin P. 2016: Iron supply for the building of Metz cathedral: new methodological development for provenance studies and historical considerations
A Disser, P Dillmann, M Leroy
Archaeometry 59 (3), 493-510
Citations: 6 - The medieval bombards of Meaux: Manufacturing processes and supply of the metal
E Brard, P Dillmann, A Disser, E Vega, C Verna, V Toureille
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41, 103307 2022
Citations: 5 - Circulation of iron products in the Iron-Age of Eastern France and Southern Germany: Multidisciplinary and methodological approaches towards the provenance of ancient iron
S Bauvais, P Dillmann, A Disser, S Leroy, M Berranger, G Pags, E Vega
IRAMAT-LMC-IRAMAT-Laboratoire Mtallurgies et Cultures; ANR (Agence 2015
Citations: 5