Gender relations in prehistory
PublicationA new article by Anne Augereau has been published in the open-access journal ‘Mondes sociaux’.
Gender differences often materialise in a variety of areas: clothing, ornaments, food, origin, and so on. Applied to the Linearbandkeramik Culture…
Ath « les Haleurs » : deux occupations Rubané et Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (Néolithique ancien)
PublicationPublication monographique des données de la fouille préventive d’Ath « les Haleurs » sous la forme d’un volume « Thema » dans la revue Anthropologica et Praehistorica, disponible en accès libre !
Denis S., Deramaix I., Jadin…
De Courbet à Lascaux. Une origine du monde préhistorique/ Ouvrage de Boris Valentin paru le 17/10/2024 aux Éditions de l’INHA (collection « Dits »)
PublicationDans des chaos de grès proches de Fontainebleau se trouve un triptyque gravé il y a 21 000 ans, à la même époque que la grotte de Lascaux. Deux chevaux encadrent un pubis de femme, qui rappelle au visiteur actuel le tableau de Gustave…
Emergence and development of an Upper Palaeolithic culture, the Magdalenian. The Taillis des Coteaux cave (Antigny, Vienne, France).
Publication"The Magdalenian certainly is the technocomplex that has undergone the most profound upheaval over the last twenty years, both in terms of the characterisation of its identity and its chronological margins. Within this debate, the Taillis…
Perceiving the Women of the Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK). Contributions and Limits of a Gender Approach in Neolithic Archaeology.
PublicationWhere are the women? Archaeology of gender in prehistory and protohistory: is France off the beaten track of gender studies?
PublicationL’oppidum du Castellas à Murviel-lès-Montpellier (Hérault). Nouveaux acquis sur l’occupation de la fin de l’âge du Fer (IIIe-Ier s. av. n. è.)
PublicationThis article presents the results of the excavation campaigns carried out between 2010 and 2018 on the summit of the Castellas de Murviel-lès-Montpellier site, which is best known for the Gallo-Roman period. The investigations focused on the…
New edition of Que sais-je? on ‘The Palaeolithic’ by Boris Valentin.
PublicationThe history of mankind is essentially Paleolithic: for three million years, humans did without agriculture and animal husbandry, gathering all their resources. These prehistoric societies nevertheless followed a variety of paths, while humans…
Oceanian hecatomb. History of the depopulation of the Pacific and its consequences (16th-20th century)
PublicationThis book questions the official account of the impact of the first Western contacts in Oceania, which holds that the populations of the majority of the islands were little affected by the introduction of new viruses and bacteria, resulting…
‘Feeling at home in Vanuatu’ : The place of newcomers from the East during the last millennium
PublicationThe paper examines the hypothesis that Polynesian biological affinities observed in ancient individuals from Vanuatu are gendered or sex-specific, and that some of the Polynesian migrations during the last millennium may have involved practices…
Aplicación del enfoque tecnológico al análisis cerámico: guía introductoria
PublicationValentine ROUX, Catherine LARA. Aplicación del enfoque tecnológico al análisis cerámico: guía introductoria. Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima. ISBN: 978-612-4358-22-7, 118 p., 22x 22 cm.
This guide offers Spanish-speaking…
“Mille et un chemins vers un autre monde” (A thousand and one paths to another world)
Publication MédiaFanny Bocquentin publishes "Mille et un chemins vers un autre monde" (A thousand and one paths to another world) in the special edition of Le Monde des Livres entitled "La mort en face" (Facing death): pp. 50-51. In it, she looks at how the…
Plant based red colouration of shell beads 15,000 years ago in Kebara Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel)
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Une équipe internationale d'archéologues, d'archéomètres et de chimistes dirigée par Laurent Davin (Université hébraïque de Jérusalem et CNRS) et Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet (laboratoire MONARIS, Sorbonne Université/CNRS) a découvert…
Digging up the Homeland: A History of Archaeology in Palestine – Israel
PublicationDigging up the Homeland: A History of Archaeology in Palestine - Israel, by Chloé Rosner, will be published on 19 October 2023 by CNRS Editions.
Archaeology has always had a close and ambiguous relationship with politics, between science,…
A booklet to mark 15 years of excavations at the Ormesson site available online
Fieldwork, Publication ValorisationThis booklet was produced to mark 15 years of excavations (2009-2023) at the multi-layered Palaeolithic site of Ormesson in Seine-et-Marne (110,000 - 20,000 years ago). With 271 pages, it is the fruit of the collective work of around thirty…
Prehistory: the beginnings of human societies
Publication ValorisationThe October-December 2023 special issue of Histoire is devoted to prehistory. You will find several contributions by members of UMR Temps.
https://www.lhistoire.fr/parution/collections-101
Fanny Bocquentin. “La Mort”, collection “à l’œil nu”, illustrated by Caroline Gamon, to be published on 5 October 2023, 158 pages.
PublicationThis book, published by CNRS Éditions, is aimed at a wide readership and looks at the biological aspects of death and the material and social handling of corpses, past and present.
https://www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/histoire/la-mort-a-l-oeil-nu/
Summary…
Atlas of threatened archaeological sites. Heritage to protect
PublicationPeninsular Thailand. Memory conflicts on the maritime Silk Roads. Bérénice Bellina
Find out more about the publication on the INEE website: https://www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/atlas-des-sites-archeologiques-menaces
Listen to Bérénice Bellina:…
Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millennium ce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception
PublicationHoppál, K., Bellina, B., & Dussubieux, L. (2023). Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millennium ce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-24. doi:10.1017/S095…
Multidisciplinary study of the Lower Palaeolithic site of Cimitero di Atella (Basilicata), Italy
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The Lower Palaeolithic site of Cimitero di Atella is located in the Basilicata region (Southern Italy), about 10 km south of the extinct Monte Vulture volcano. The site was discovered in the early 1990s and was continuously excavated for…
Mesolithic occupations in the middle Seine valley: the rue Farman site in Paris (15th arrondissement).
PublicationSOUFFI B. (dir.) 2023. Occupations mésolithiques dans la moyenne vallée de la Seine : le site de la rue Farman à Paris (15e arr.). Paris : CNRS Éditions ; INRAP, 2023. 282 p. (Recherches Archéologiques ; 24).
https://inrap.hal…
Bone aerophones from Eynan-Mallaha (Israel) indicate imitation of raptor calls by the last hunter-gatherers in the Levant
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Une équipe internationale d’archéologues, archéozoologues et ethnomusicologues dirigée par Laurent Davin (Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem. Israël et CNRS) et José-Miguel Tejero (Université de Vienne. Autriche…
Les signatures géochimiques d’artefacts en pierre comme traceurs des voyages inter-insulaires polynésiens dans l’ouest du Pacifique au cours du dernier millénaire
PublicationUne étude archéométrique basée sur la signature géochimique d'artefacts en pierre a été menée par des chercheurs CNRS de l’UMR 8068 Temps et de l’IPGP en collaboration avec les archéologues du Centre Culturel du Vanuatu. Celle-ci…
Préhistoire, nouvelles frontières
PublicationPréhistoire, nouvelles frontières, un ouvrage dirigé par Jean-Michel Geneste, Philippe Grosos et Boris Valentin
Plusieurs chercheurs de l’UMR 8068 TEMPS (Fanny Bocquentin, Élisa Caron-Laviolette, Catherine Perlès, Catherine…
Les survivants de l’Âge de glace, une publication dans la revue Nature : Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers
PublicationPlusieurs chercheurs associés de l’UMR 8068 TEMPS (Olivier Bignon-Lau, Pierre Bodu, Grégory Debout, Laurent Klaric, Bénédicte Souffi & Frédérique Valentin) et de Géoarchéon (Marie-Anne Julien) ont participé à cette étude. La…
Social context of Mesolithic rock engravings in the Fontainebleau sandstone region (Paris Basin, France): Contribution of the experimental study
PublicationAnthropogenic engravings were made within more than 2000 small natural cavities found in the sandstone boulder fields of the central Paris Basin, in an area of 1800 km2 to west of the town of Fontainebleau. These engravings consist mainly of…
La Chasse aux mammifères marins
PublicationLes mammifères marins ont joué un rôle important dans les communautés côtières pendant des milliers d'années, ce qui s'est manifesté dans l'art rupestre, les vestiges zooarchéologiques et les systèmes techniques de chasse. Ce dossier…