Au Mésolithique, les successeurs des hommes du Paléolithique s’adaptent au brusque réchauffement climatique du début de notre actuelle période interglaciaire, vers - 9600.
Ils conservent néanmoins un mode de vie basé sur la chasse, la pêche et la cueillette, qui s’achève avec l’arrivée des agriculteurs-éleveurs du Néolithique, autour de - 6000 en France.
 

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 Fina

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,...

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)

Ouvrages
13/06/2014
The Early Mesolithic occupations at Basses Veuves (Pont-sur-Yonne)

This book, dedicated to the spatial structure of open-air Mesolithic sites in the valley bottom, presents our current state of knowledge based on...

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,...

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
18/01/2010
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...

Les découvertes
25/06/2008
Hunter-gatherers in Paris

A team of prehistorians from the Inrap has discovered traces of some of the last prehistoric hunter-gatherers, in the 15th...

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).