ABSTRACT
SUMMARY: Excavations at the Cartier-Roberval site have discovered artefacts related to everyday activities and mineral exploration. They offer a picture of an extremely hierarchical society that transferred European social order and means of subsistence to North America. Preliminary study of the ceramics suggests the existence of a trade route with branches stretching from south-west France to Normandy, along which goods were conveyed to vessels outfitted for commercial, exploratory and colonizing missions.
