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. 

Ouvrages
04/07/2012
Neandertal settlements in northern France

How did Neandertals occupy their territories ? How did they organize their movements? These questions were addressed in numerous studies in recent...

Les découvertes
24/05/2012
Excavation of a prehistoric Solutrean campsite in Boulazac

Since November 2011, a team of Inrap archaeologists has been excavating a large Solutrean site in Boulazac (Dordogne), near Périgueux. This work,...

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08/03/2012
Inrap conducts research in the prehistoric cave of Mas d’Azil

An Inrap team has intervened, under the curation of the State (Drac Midi-Pyrénées), in the monumental cave-tunnel of Mas d’Azil (Ariège...

Revues
27/01/2012
Archéopages HS 3 - New fields of archaeological research

Published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Inrap, this issue presents some major evolutions of archaeological knowledge,...

Ouvrages
25/08/2011
The prehistoric bivouac at Buhot, in Calleville (Eure)

During the construction of the A28 motorway from Rouen to Alençon, a site dated to the Late Upper Paleolithic was discovered and excavated at...

Les découvertes
06/11/2010
50,000 years earlier than in Europe, Homo sapiens used the pressure retouch technique at Blombos, in the southernmost part of Africa

Vincent Mourre, préhistorien à l'Inrap publie avec Paola Villa et Christopher S.

Les découvertes
17/09/2010
When Neanderthal man stopped at Tourville-la-Rivière

A team of a archaeologists from Inrap (The National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) is at present excavating, curated by the...

Revues
18/07/2010
Archéopages 30 - Men and coastlines

Human societies have always been confronted to a modest or ample, slow or sudden rise in sea level, and thus to the retreat or advance of the land...

Revues
18/05/2010
Archéopages HS 2 - Archaeology without borders

Inrap's international activities are inseparable from its missions. With their partners, the archaeologists of the institute intervene according...

Revues
18/04/2010
Archéopages 29 - Recycling and reuse

For archaeologists, and especially for those who study building archaeology, it is clear that the supply of provision for construction sites, ever...

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18/01/2010
Archéopages 28 - Hunting

The management of the different products of hunting is mainly extrapolated from bone deposits: modes of acquisition, subsistence, distribution ......

Revues
18/07/2009
Archéopages 26 - Fishing

A poor relative of mammals, the fish only had for himself that he was particularly prolific. As a result, he is abundantly fished and eaten. The...

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
23/07/2007
Neanderthal News: the Saint-Amand-les-Eaux biface workshops

Numerous Neanderthal artifacts are currently being excavated by a team from the Inrap at Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (Nord).

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
22/09/2006
Neanderthal man discovered in the Eemien. A fundamental discovery.

In the Somme region, a joint team of CNRS and Inrap archaeologists have discovered a site fundamental for our understanding of the history of Neand

Les découvertes
25/08/2006
Under Montpellier, the last great hunters of the Languedoc region

In advance of work on line N° 2 of the Montpellier tramway, an excavation, curated by the Regional Archaeology Service, was carried out at...

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