Après la Préhistoire, qui comprend la Paléolithique, le Mésolithique et le Néolithique, l’âge du Bronze est la première période de la « Protohistoire », appelée aussi « âges des Métaux ». Marqué par d’importantes avancées, tant technologiques que sociales, l’âge du Bronze constitue une étape importante de l’évolution des sociétés européennes. Elle se caractérise par l’usage de la métallurgie du bronze, alliage principalement composé de cuivre et d’étain.

Événements
04/04/2025
Spotlight on the Bronze Age!

The institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (national institute for preventive archaeological research) is dedicating its ninth

Ouvrages
23/04/2020
Villiers-sur-Seine: An aristocratic habitat from the 9th century BC

The known Bronze Age settlements between the Île-de-France and Champagne are usually small, unenclosed family farms. The Villiers-sur-Seine site,...

Les découvertes
05/09/2019
The megaliths of Veyre-Monton (Puy-de-Dôme): aligned menhirs, tomb, cairn, and statue

An Inrap team has recently excavated a group of aligned menhirs at Veyre-Monton (Puy-de-Dôme). This research, prescribed by the State (Drac...

Ouvrages
16/12/2017
Habitat and land use in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age

The Bronze Age cultures have long been arduous for archaeologists to determine because of their diverse manifestations and tenuous remnants. It...

Films d'exposition
07/02/2017
Archeology in 12 Minutes

In an original narrative mode, illustrated with numerous archive images, Christian Rist and Jean-Paul Fargier tell us the history of archeology,...

Synthèse
Programmation et diffusion scientifiques - 20/01/2017
Habitats and land use during the Bronze Age and the Hallstatt period (First Iron age) (2200 – 600 BC)

The creation of a research group and a database relative to settlement patterns in metropolitan France during the Bronze Age and the beginning of...

Conférences
24/10/2014
The roots of war

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 
by Jean Guilaine, member of Institute

Conférences
20/09/2014
Conclusion (1) The archaeology of violence

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence
by Jean Guilaine, member of the Institute, honorary professor at the...

Conférences
19/09/2014
Conclusion (2) The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence   
by Jacques Sémelin, CERI-Sciences Po, (CNRS)

Revues
31/07/2014
Archéopages 40 - Villages

Along with historical and geographic definitions, archaeology poses for all periods the question of how do societies choose to group or not their...

Les découvertes
24/10/2013
An exceptional archaeological site at Obernai: more than 6000 years of occupation

In advance of the construction of an industrial business park by the associated communes of Pays de Sainte Odile, Inrap has just finished a large...

Les découvertes
12/04/2013
Gallic warriors on the plain of Troyes

An Inrap team has just uncovered a Gallic necropolis from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC on the site of the Parc...

Revues
27/01/2012
Archéopages HS 3 - New fields of archaeological research

Published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Inrap, this issue presents some major evolutions of archaeological knowledge,...

Les découvertes
09/01/2012
National survey of the Bronze Age: a first in the field of archaeological research in France

In Bayeux, on November 29 and 39, 2011, Inrap organized a round-table on "Settlement and land occupation during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age...

Les découvertes
16/09/2011
Wissous and the parisii elite at the end of the Gaulish independence

An Inrap team is at present excavating, curated by the State (Drac - Regional Archaeological Service,  Île de France), an important Gaulish site si

Revues
15/07/2011
Archéopages 33 - Big works

The will to start with a clean slate, the need to limit the overflows of private constructions, the ambition to extend its hold, to regulate the...

Revues
05/01/2011
Archéopages 31 - Sweet and salty

Archaeology is not stingy with testimonies on the production of salt and sugar. To obtain these two essential products, men have competed with...

Revues
18/07/2010
Archéopages 30 - Men and coastlines

Human societies have always been confronted to a modest or ample, slow or sudden rise in sea level, and thus to the retreat or advance of the land...

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