La période contemporaine s’étend du début du XIXe siècle jusqu’à nos jours.
Du point de vue de l’historien, on la fait souvent débuter en 1789 ou au Congrès de Vienne (1815), qui marque la fin de la période napoléonienne.
En Europe, ces deux siècles se caractérisent par des phénomènes et des événements d’une ampleur inédite : croissance démographique, industrialisation et productivisme, révolutions politiques, mondialisation des crises, extensions et replis colonialistes, nationalismes, guerres… mais encore, extension de la démocratie, épisodes totalitaires, éducation de masse, déclin du christianisme, de l’agriculture, progrès de la médecine… 

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

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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...

Les découvertes

On April 23, 1983, 120 personalities of the Contemporary Art World took part in a banquet orchestrated by the artist Daniel Spoerri in the park of...

Les découvertes

Prior to the construction of a social housing project including a square bordered by a pedestrian street, Inrap archaeologists are excavating,...

Les découvertes

In 2004, François Gentili, Inrap archaeologist and specialist of seigniorial dwellings, explored the 17th century ice-houses of what...

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There are various similarities between mining archaeologists and geologists. They relate at the same time to the methodological aspects, the...

Revues

As a tribute to Jean-Paul Demoule, President of Inrap from 2002 to 2008, this issue brings together a series of contributions on the history of...

Les découvertes

In advance of works in the park of Baillet-en-France castle (Val-d'Oise), an Inrap team directed by François Gentili conducted archaeological resea

Les découvertes

Following prescription from the Regional Archaeology Service, a team of archaeologists from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques...

Les découvertes

While carrying out an evaluation near Saint-Quentin (Aisne), archaeologists from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives (In

Les découvertes

A team from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), has recently excavated part of a Napoleonic army camp at Puits...

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