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, Inrap, Paléotime and, in some cases, local authorities, have enabled the French petroarchaeology community to reach a consensus on a single method for inventorying and characterising silicites at three levels of observation: macro, meso and microscopic.

In 2022, a round table organised by the Société Préhistorique de France provided an opportunity to take stock of 15 years of experience and outline prospects for this work in the coming years.

Bibliographic reference

‘PCR “Lithotheque Network” and GDR “Silex”: Review of fifteen years of dynamic approach to silicites’. Specialised session of the French Prehistoric Society, Lyon, Lugdunum Museum, 15 and 16 November 2022. Proceedings to be published in 2026.