{"id":37483,"date":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=37483"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:26:55","slug":"entretien-matthieu-menager-chercheur-le-costa-rica-invite-a-depasser-les-definitions-classiques-daires-culturelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/07\/25\/entretien-matthieu-menager-chercheur-le-costa-rica-invite-a-depasser-les-definitions-classiques-daires-culturelles\/","title":{"rendered":"[Entretien] Matthieu M\u00e9nager, chercheur : \u00ab Le Costa Rica invite \u00e0 d\u00e9passer les d\u00e9finitions classiques d\u2019aires culturelles \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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La Marseillaise<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>:<\/b> Qui \u00e9taient les habitants de l\u2019actuel Costa Rica il y a entre 2<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>500 et 1<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>400 ans<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>?<\/b><\/p>\n

Matthieu M\u00e9nager<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>:<\/b> Nous avons du mal \u00e0 les caract\u00e9riser et \u00e0 les nommer. Certains chercheurs ont parl\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0zone interm\u00e9diaire\u00a0\u00bb, puis de populations chibchas –\u00a0du nom d\u2019une langue encore parl\u00e9e par une population autochtone, mais nous ignorons si elle \u00e9tait parl\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque. Aujourd\u2019hui, certains parlent d\u2019aire \u00ab\u00a0isthmo-colombienne\u00a0\u00bb, mais ce n\u2019est toujours pas tr\u00e8s satisfaisant.<\/p>\n

Que sait-on de ces populations<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>? <\/b><\/p>\n

M.M.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>:<\/b> Elles \u00e9taient structur\u00e9es sous forme de soci\u00e9t\u00e9s hi\u00e9rarchis\u00e9es, probablement regroup\u00e9es autour de pouvoirs locaux contr\u00f4lant diff\u00e9rents territoires. Mais les objets que nous retrouvons t\u00e9moignent d\u2019un patrimoine culturel moins homog\u00e8ne que dans d\u2019autres zones, comme celle des Mayas qui est une zone culturelle \u00e0 part enti\u00e8re. Au Costa Rica, c\u2019est moins \u00e9vident et cela invite \u00e0 d\u00e9passer les d\u00e9finitions classiques d\u2019aires culturelles pour imaginer quelque chose de plus dynamique.<\/p>\n

Qu\u2019apporte votre \u00e9tude sur les objets en pierres vertes<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>? <\/b><\/p>\n

M.M.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>:<\/b> Elle permet de mieux comprendre les interactions entre les populations de la r\u00e9gion \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque. Il y avait probablement des contacts entre les \u00e9lites mayas et celles du Costa Rica. Car, parmi les pierres vertes \u00e9tudi\u00e9es, seul le jade t\u00e9moigne clairement d\u2019\u00e9changes \u00e0 longue distance entre les deux r\u00e9gions. Or il est associ\u00e9 aux objets de la royaut\u00e9 maya et se retrouve au Costa Rica <\/a>dans les tombes de personnages apparemment importants. Il reste \u00e0 savoir la raison de ces \u00e9changes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Marseillaise : Qui étaient les habitants de l’actuel Costa Rica il y a entre 2 500 et 1 400 ans ?Matthieu Ménager : Nous avons du mal à les caractériser et à les nommer. Certains …","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6168,1793,174,343,416,1058,353,171,988,2001],"news-destination":[],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-37483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-societe","tag-amerique-centrale","tag-archeologie","tag-avignon","tag-entretien","tag-recherche-scientifique","tag-science","tag-sciences","tag-vaucluse","tag-week-end","tag-weekend","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37485,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37483\/revisions\/37485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37483"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=37483"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=37483"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=37483"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=37483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}