Abstract
Until the rise of preventive archaeology, only geographers considered the village and homes as tools for sociological analysis of a society. However, their work only concerned archive documents as well as what can be seen of the village’s ancient origins today. Reflection on the village and home, which are keystones of rurality, only exceptionally included the periods preceding the 17th century, troubled times during which the very destructive Thirty Years War took place, leading to the disappearance of many villages in Lorraine. The multiplication of large-scale archaeological digs as well as more regular studies carried out in the heart of current villages have subsequently enabled archaeologists to spread knowledge beyond this historical barrier by uplifting a whole area of almost unknown history of villages and rural homes, whether today disappeared or still in the process of being remodelled…
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