In France, the Neolithic period, which corresponds to the first farming societies, extended from 6000 to 2200 BCE. During this time, the nomadic way of life was replaced by a sedentary one. Ceramic technology was used make pottery and some stone tools, such as axes, were polished.

Report
07/02/2017
The Siem Reap Airport Excavation Cambodia, February-March 2013

In 2013, for the third consecutive year, Inrap carried out a preventive excavation campaign around Cambodia's Siem Reap International Airport,

Short film
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,...

Animated film
07/02/2017
The Neolithic Age
Publications
20/01/2017
A habitat from the Chasséen culture in Auvergne. Champ Madame in Beaumont (Puy-de-Dôme) from the Néolithique Moyen II

An extensive site occupied during the first half of the fourth millennium, between 4000 and 3500BC, the habitat dating back to the Chasséen period...

Discoveries
07/06/2016
Murderous fury in the Neolithic at Achenheim

A team of Inrap archaeologists has just uncovered the remains of a massacre that occurred more than six-thousand years ago at Achenheim...

Press reviews
31/07/2015
Archéopages 42 - Build in raw clay

What is the status of this building material compared to others? Is its use linked to specific functions of construction? To the social status of...

Publications
26/04/2015
The Final Neolithic in the Deûle Valley. The site of Houplin-Ancoisne le Marais de Santes

The discovery of a vast architectural group including a palisade and buildings dated to early 3rd millennium BC on the edge of the...

Conference
24/10/2014
The roots of war

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

Conference
22/10/2014
The traces of violence in the earliest European societes : the example of Asparn/Schletz (5,000 BC)

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 
by Maria Teschler-Nicola, Natural history Museum of Vienna

Conference
20/10/2014
Early Urbanism, Social Stress, and Violence: 4th Millennium BC Mass Graves at Tell Brak, Syria

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 
by Augusta McMahon, Cambridge University

Conference
17/10/2014
Wartime violence, mass violence: questions of method

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 

Chair : Anne Lehoërff, university of Lille

Conference
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...

Conference
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)

Discoveries
10/09/2014
A Middle Neolithic necropolis in Fleury-sur-Orne

A team of Inrap archaeologists is currently excavating a 20 hectare site in Fleury-sur-Orne. This work, curated by the State (Drac...

Press reviews
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...

Discoveries
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...

Publications
25/07/2013
An Early Neolithic village. Le Pré des Bateaux in Luzancy (Seine-et-Marne).

The site of Luzancy, a few kilometers north of the city of La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, located in a meander of the Marne River, yielded a large...

Press reviews
31/10/2012
Archéopages 35 - Living with animals

From the bee to the elephant, including the carp, the falcon, the pig, the dog and the cat, domesticated species are as diverse as they are...

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