En France, la période néolithique, qui correspond aux premières sociétés de paysans, est comprise entre 6000 et 2200 avant notre ère. Elle est caractérisée par l’abandon du mode de vie nomade, l’utilisation de la céramique pour fabriquer des poteries et le polissage de certains outils en pierre tels que les haches.

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).

Reportages d'actualité
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,

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,...

Films d'animation
07/02/2017
The Neolithic Age
Ouvrages
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...

Les découvertes
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 (Bas-Rhin).

Revues
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...

Ouvrages
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...

Conférences
24/10/2014
The roots of war

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

Conférences
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

Conférences
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

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

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 

Chair : Anne Lehoërff, university of Lille

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)

Les découvertes
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.

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 e

Ouvrages
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...

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