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After losing control of the capital Sanaa to Yemen's northern Houthi movement, which is aligned with forces loyal to the former president ʿAli ʿAbd Allah Salih, current Yemeni President ʿAbd Rabbu Mansur Hadi turned to Saudi Arabia for help. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and its coalition of nine states began a bombing campaign in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world. Prior to the conflict, Yemen was already 90-percent dependent on imported food and had been battling a severe water deficit. A twenty-eight-month-long siege of its civilian population has left the country in a situation that some humanitarian groups deem to be worse than the crisis in Syria. The media has barely covered Yemen's catastrophic crisis, partially because of overt censorship by the Saudi kingdom and a shielding of its systemic violations of international law by powerful allies including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. These countries are clearly more concerned with billion-dollar arms deals with the kingdom than with putting an end to what has been described as the worst food crisis since the establishment of the United Nations.

Grâce aux nombreuses recherches et fouilles entreprises, la période sudarabique, qui s'étend du IXe siècle av. J.-C. au IVe siècle ap. J.-C., est la mieux documentée de l'archéologie yéménite. Toutefois, nous savons encore peu de choses sur la Préhistoire dans cette région du monde, tout particulièrement en ce qui concerne sa chronologie. Il n'existe par exemple aucune preuve d'un contrôle de la nature ni d'une sédentarisation sur les sites dits néolithiques, ces éléments sont pourtant ceux qui habituellement caractérisent cette période. La pertinence de ce découpage chronologique est alors questionnée. Dans ce contexte, depuis quelques années, la recherche préhistorique au Yémen se développe et tente, pour faire face au manque de données et de moyens, d'employer des expériences méthodologiques innovantes.

Preventive archaeology and archaeological rescue and heritage protection operations have grown over the last decades in Yemen. Local authorities quickly became aware of the danger that modern territorial developments could pose to preserving the scientific knowledge of the past. Similarly, looting against the law in force on the protection of antiques has developed in parallel with the growing interest of art dealers. This article attempts to place the place of emergency scientific actions within more traditional archaeological research, compared with the situation in France. The framework of Yemeni law is also analysed to determine its value and application. Recent operations are then presented, with a view to the more organised development of preventive archaeological research in Yemen. ; http://www.cefas.com.ye/cy/cy13/01_Crassard_Archeo.pdf ; Preventive archaeology and archaeological rescue and heritage protection operations have grown over the last decades in Yemen. Local authorities quickly became aware of the danger that modern territorial developments could pose to preserving the scientific knowledge of the past. Similarly, looting against the law in force on the protection of antiques has developed in parallel with the growing interest of art dealers. This article attempts to place the place of emergency scientific actions within more traditional archaeological research, compared with the situation in France. The framework of Yemeni law is also analysed to determine its value and application. Recent operations are then presented, with a view to the more organised development of preventive archaeological research in Yemen. ; International audience Preventive archaeology, rescue archaeological operations and actions for heritage protection have been increased in Yemen these last decades. Local authorities have quickly realized the danger of modern town and country planning on the preservation of the scientific knowledge of the past. Otherwise, lootings done against the current law on the protection of ...

L'archéologie préventive et les opérations de sauvetage archéologique et de protection du patrimoine se sont amplifiées au cours des dernières décennies au Yémen. Les autorités locales ont rapidement pris conscience du danger que pouvait représenter les aménagements modernes du territoire sur la préservation des connaissances scientifiques du passé. De même, les pillages opérés à l'encontre de la loi en vigueur sur la protection des antiquités se sont développés parallèlement à l'intérêt croissant des marchands d'art. Le présent article tente de situer la place des actions scientifiques d'urgence au sein de la recherche archéologique plus traditionnelle, en comparaison avec la situation observée en France. Le cadre de la loi yéménite est également analysé afin de déterminer sa valeur et son application. Des opérations récentes sont ensuite présentées, dans la perspective du développement plus organisé des recherches archéologiques préventives au Yémen.