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
05/03/2009
A Gallo-Roman vineyard in Gevrey-Chambertin

Gevrey-Chambertin, located 12 km from Dijon, is world famous for its Burgundy wine.

Revues
17/10/2008
Archéopages 23 - Shores and local residents

The river landscape is organized and decomposed into areas of running water and stagnant water, semi-aquatic and terrestrial areas, which maintain...

Revues
17/09/2008
Archéopages 22 - Mines and quarries

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

Les découvertes
25/06/2008
Hunter-gatherers in Paris

A team of prehistorians from the Inrap has discovered traces of some of the last prehistoric hunter-gatherers, in the 15th...

Revues
18/05/2008
Archéopages special issue 1 - Constructions of archaeology

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...

Revues
17/04/2008
Archéopages 21 - Limits and territories

The sources of rapprochement and remoteness which essentially unite and divide men have been demonstrated by the anthropologist and the...

Les découvertes
29/01/2008
A neolithic "mother-goddess" from Auvergne?

The fragment of a ceramic feminine statuette has been found during the excavation of a Middle Neolithic site in Pont-du-Château (Puy-de-Dôme), by...

Les découvertes
22/11/2007
Bergerac, first Neolithic village in the South-West of France

A team from the National Inrap is at present excavating the remains of a Neolithic village in the Vaures quarter of Bergerac. While the Bergerac re

Revues
17/08/2007
Archéopages 19 - Signs of power

Do power relationships exist in all societies? Where to search for the key to ancient organizations, traces and signs of distinction? What...

Les découvertes
15/02/2007
Marseille before Massalia, the oldest Neolithic unfired brick architecture in France

A team from the Inrap is carrying out a major excavation on the boulevard Charles-Nédélec in Marseille where, over eight millennia, Neolithic, Gree

Revues
17/01/2007
Archéopages 18 - Migrations

Trying to understand how different settlements have emerged is one of the major goals of archaeology. Basing itself on material data, it provides...

Les découvertes
29/06/2006
The menhirs of Belz, discovery and extensive excavation of a Mesolithic ensemble in Morbihan: a first in France

Inscribed in the landscape, menhirs and arrangements of upright stones make the Morbihan a favoured region for the study of megalithic monuments....

Les découvertes
13/09/2005
The first Marseillais dined on limpets and winkles !

A team from the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (Inrap),working in collaboration with the municipal archaeology service...

Les découvertes
20/07/2004
A Neolithic cemetery of major importance for both French and Swiss archaeology

In 2002, the National Institute for Preventive Archaeology (INRAP) discovered the Genevray site on the route of the future Thonon-les-Bains bypass...

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