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Past & Curious : award-winning films !

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Boucher de Perthes Award for Best Short Film 2026 18th Amiens Archaeology Film Festival Papyrus that’s a hit & Mezcla! A feast among the ancient Maya Best Archaeological Short Film Award 2025 Nyon International Archaeology Film Festival Papyrus…
Illustration de la Visite Insolite 2026Nathalie Le Tellier-Becquart / UMR TEMPS

Unique Research Experiences: “Clay in All Its Forms”

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"Les Visites Insolites" by CNRS offers unique experiences every year, in small groups, at the heart of research.In 2025, the UMR TEMPS organized a public visit on the theme "Clay in All Its Forms," designed and led by Emmanuel Baudouin,…
Illustration de la Visite Insolite 2026Nathalie Le Tellier-Becquart / UMR TEMPS

Unique Research Experiences: “Clay in All Its Forms”

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"Les Visites Insolites" by CNRS offers unique experiences every year, in small groups, at the heart of research.In 2025, the UMR TEMPS organized a public visit on the theme "Clay in All Its Forms," designed and led by Emmanuel Baudouin,…
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Photos de flûtes préhistoriques en osLaurent Davin

A podcast on musical archaeology with Laurent Davin

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Laurent Davin and Julian Cuvilliez, archaeo-musicologist, luthier, musician and director of the experimental archaeology research and interpretation centre in Finistère, were guests on France Culture's Cabinet des curiosités programme to discuss…
Illustration de la vidéo Présentation du GDR SilexUMR TEMPS

Presentation of the Silex Research Group

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Coordinated by Vincent Delvigne (UMR 8068 TEMPS), the GDR Silex 2059 is entitled ‘Characterisation and provenance of a georesource during Prehistory’. It was created in 2019 and renewed in 2024 for five years. It brings together some…
Illustration de la vidéo : les outils cartographiques du GDR SilexUMR TEMPS

The GDR Silex tools for capturing and sharing cartographic data

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Thanks to an integrated digital chain from the field to publication, data on silicate formations and deposits are captured, validated, shared and made available on the web on the cartographic platform wwww.cartosilex.fr under an Etalab 2.0 open…
Illustration de la vidéo Pourquoi le GDR SilexUMR TEMPS

Why was the GDR Silex created?

Meet the researchers from the UMR TEMPS involved in the GDR Silex at the Science Festival in Nanterre from 9 to 11 October!Since 2006, six Collective Research Projects (PCR) on lithotheque networks, co-funded by the Ministry of Culture,…
Illustration de Pierre Allard présentant la reproduction de la taille préhistoriqueUMR TEMPS

Reproducing prehistoric stone cutting techniques

Reproducing prehistoric stone cutting techniques allows us to reconstruct the operational chain, i.e. the sequence of steps used by prehistoric humans to produce tools from raw stone materials. This reproduction, the results of which can be…
Illustration de l'annonce de la vidéo sur les silicitesVincent Delvigne et al

Études des silicites

Le terme de silicite désigne l’ensemble des roches ayant subi une silicification d’origine chimique, biochimique ou diagénétique (silex, chert, silcrète et silice hydrothermale). Il permet de s’affranchir du terme silex (ou flint),…
Illustration du Film Devenir sédentaires avec bandeauPascaline Gaussein

Becoming sedentary. When the hamlet of Eynan-Mallaha bears witness to the changing world

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‘Becoming Sedentary’ presents the history of the sedentarisation of the last hunter-gatherers of prehistoric times in the Near East. The Eynan-Mallaha site in the Jordan Valley serves as the backdrop for this story, based on 70 years of…
Image d'illustration intervention E. Baudouin ENSAPV 2025ENSAPV

Online video ‘Urgent: desperately seeking an earthen builder for an ethnoarchaeological project’

The recording of Emmanuel Baudouin's talk at the ‘Reactualisation of pre-industrial materials and know-how, historical perspectives’ study day, organised by the Environnements numériques, Cultures Architecturales et Urbaines (EVCAU) laboratory…
Illustration de la conférence du Collège de France de Régis Vallet

In search of a sustainable common future. Water policies in the Near East, from Sumer to the present day.

The conference is online:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OpmDfZd9tE&t=4175s In the Near East, water has always been a fundamental element in the development of human societies. The project entitled ‘Water policies in the Near East,…
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Experimenting differently

The podcast of the roundtable discussion on the challenges of mediation and research in architectural reconstructions and restorations, organized by the APERA association, is available online.In this second episode of the ‘Experimenting…
Petite histoire de la grotte GatzarriaCarnets de fouille

A brief history of the excavations in the Gatzarria cave

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The video presenting the brief history of the Gatzarria cave, with Lars Anderson, is online on the Carnets de Fouilles YouTube channel.https://youtu.be/qza6Bvab0bA?feature=shared  "‘The archaeologist, Lars Anderson, presents…
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Roy Mata : le tombeau d’une légende au Vanuatu

Frédérique Valentin (UMR TEMPs) et Wanda Zinger (Université de Tübingen/UMR 7194) sont les invitées d'Antoine Beauchamp dans l'émission "L'Entretien archéologique" sur France Culture le 21/02/2025.L'entretien archéologique : Roy…
Relevés et dessins d'après la roche gravée - © cliché O. Fuentes, relevés d'après L. Pales et M. Tassin de Saint-Péreuse / relevé O. Fuentes©Oscar Fuentes

The Grotte de la Marche or the birth of the portrait?

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Oscar Fuentes and Geneviève Pinçon were Vincent Charpentier's guests on France Culture on 30 August 2024 to talk about the La Marche cave.With its highly realistic, even caricatured, human representations, the La Marche cave in Lussac-les-Châteaux…
Illustration des vidéos de l'été 2024UMR TEMPS
Roches gravées dans la forêt de Fontainebleau (Emilie Lesvignes/ PCR ARBAP)Emilie Lesvignes/ PCR ARBAP

“A Fontainebleau, de mystérieuses gravures rupestres cachées dans la forêt”

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This article from Le Monde interviews several members of the Collective Research Project on "Prehistoric Rock Art in the Sandstone Chaos of the Paris Basin. Archiving, study and development", coordinated by Boris Valentin. Photograph by Emilie…
Vue d’ensemble du site solutréen de Fragnes-La Loyère en cours de fouille - © J.-B. Lajoux, Inrap© J.-B. Lajoux, Inrap

Discovery of a Solutrean site in Ice Age Burgundy

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An exceptional Solutrean site (24,000 - 22,000 BC) has just been excavated in Burgundy.Listen to the Radio France podcast with Jean-Baptiste Lajoux :
Initiation à la pétrologie des silicites : les stagiaires au travail (photo : Vincent Delvigne)photo : Vincent Delvigne

Initiation à la pétrologie des silicites

Les 23, 24 et 25 janvier, l'UMR TEMPS a organisé une formation de pétrologie à destination d'étudiant.e.s engagé.e.s dans des travaux de Master 2 dans les universités de Bordeaux, de Paris 1, d'Aix Marseille et de Rennes.Au programme,…
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Venus est dans la grotte: un épisode de LSD sur France Culture avec Oscar Fuentes et Boris Valentin

Episode consacré à la préhistoire dans une série de Perrine Kervran "Le nu mis à nu" (LSD, La Série Documentaire sur France Culture), avec des interventions d'Oscar Fuentes et de Boris Valentin.Chapeau introductif de l'émission sur…
Illustration de l'émission 28 minutes avec Fanny BocquentinARTE

Fanny Bocquentin in 28 minutes on ARTE TV on 01/11/2023.

28 minutes ARTE TVFanny Bocquentin was the guest of Elizabeth Quin and her team in 28 minutes on ARTE TV on 01/11/2023."Fanny Bocquentin deciphers funeral rites".https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/117440-001-A/fanny-bocquentin-decrypte-les-rites-funeraires/Also…
Illustration de l'émission de RFI avec Fanny BocquentinRFI

Fanny Bocquentin presents her book “La mort à l’œil nu” (Death with a naked eye)

RFI 24 October 2023Fanny Bocquentin has been invited by Caroline Lachowsky on RFI's 'Autour de la question' programme to present her book 'La mort à l'œil nu' and debate with Julien d'Huy the question: "Why and how have all human societies,…

Projection du documentaire “Dames et Princes de la Préhistoire” de Pauline Coste

"Dames et Princes de la préhistoire" (Arte 2021, 52mn) plusieurs fois primé en festivals sera diffusé ce jeudi 19 octobre à 20h30 au cinéma Le Trianon de Romainville, en la présence de Pauline Coste, réalisatrice et préhistorienne…
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Heritage in danger: stop the demolition!

Nicolas Teyssandier (UMR 5608 TRACES), Bérénice Bellina, et Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento (UMR 7206 / MNHN) sont les invités de Vincent Charpentier dans l'émission "Carbone 14" sur France Culture le 16/09/2023.Carbone 14, le magazine de …