Le terme Paléolithique a été créé à la fin du XIXe siècle. Son étymologie du grec ancien signifie « l’âge de la pierre ancienne », par opposition à « l’âge de la pierre nouvelle », qui désigne le Néolithique qui lui succédera. La période Paléolithique part des premiers témoins de l’activité humaine il y a plus de trois millions d’années jusqu’au grand changement des sociétés humaines qu’est l’invention de l’agriculture et de l’élevage. 

Les découvertes
04/12/2019
A Paleolithic “Venus” is discovered in Amiens

The prehistoric site of Renancourt, in Amiens, has been known for many years and long remained one of the few sites providing evidence for human pr

Les découvertes
15/11/2018
Hunter-gatherers at the end of the Paleolithic in the city of Angoulême

This excavation, conducted since the month of April by team of Inrap archaeologists, has revealed three prehistoric occupations dated from the...

Conférences
09/11/2018
Those other Neanderthals

International conference "Human being ? An archeology of the origins​ by Israel Hershkovitz, university of Tel Aviv, Israël

Conférences
09/11/2018
Neanderthal, yesterday and today

International conference "Human being ? An archeology of the origins" by Pascal Depaepe, National Institute of Preventive Archaeological...

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
Homo sapiens in prehistoric times
Les découvertes
14/03/2016
A bird among the earliest art

Iluminada Ortega and Laurence Bourguignon of Inrap, along with their Spanish colleagues, have announced in the Journal of Archaeological Science...

Conférences
14/06/2015
Homo, the great migrating ape

Archaeology of Migrations 
by Pascal PICQ, Palaeoanthropologist at the Collège de France

Conférences
12/06/2015
Homo sapiens meet the Neanderthal in Europe

Archaeology of Migrations 
by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology...

Les découvertes
21/05/2015
35 000 years ago, Aurignacians were the first modern humans to occupy the cave of Mas d’Azil

A team of archaeologists and geoarchaeologists from Inrap and the Traces Laboratory (CNRS – Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès) have been working s

Conférences
23/10/2014
Did war exist in the Palaeolithic Age ?

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 
 by Marylène Patou-Mathis, CNRS, Prehistory Department of the Museum...

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09/10/2014
A new discovery of a pre-Neanderthal in France: the Tourville-la-Rivière man

On the prehistoric site of Tourville-la-Rivière (Seine-Maritime, Normandy), a team of archaeologists from the French National Institute for...

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
06/08/2014
A Neandertal occupation is discovered on the bank of the Saône river

A team of Inrap archaeologists is excavating, under curation by the State (Drac Rhône-Alpes), a Middle Paleolithic site in Quincieux in...

Revues
31/07/2013
Archéopages 38 - Inhospitable lands

Some environments are believed to have been colonized, or not, by human societies throughout history. Depending on the period, on environmental...

Les découvertes
09/07/2013
A Final Paleolithic burial is discovered in Cuges-les-Pins

Since March 2013, a team of Inrap archaeologists has been excavating 1.8 hectares in the ZAC of Vigneaux in Cuges-les-Pins (Bouches-du-Rhône).

Les découvertes
07/11/2012
A mammoth and humans on the banks of the Marne

A nearly complete mammoth skeleton has just been uncovered at Changis-sur-Marne in the Seine-et-Marne department.

Événements
23/08/2012
The prehistory of the other. "Archaeological and anthropological perspectives"

Collection Recherches - 384 pages - 28 €

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