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Topic Neolithic
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.
An Inrap team has recently excavated a group of aligned menhirs at Veyre-Monton (Puy-de-Dôme).
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).

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

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence
by Maria Teschler-Nicola, Natural history Museum of Vienna
A team of Inrap archaeologists is currently excavating a 20 hectare site in Fleury-sur-Orne.
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