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Cultures et environnements : Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM)

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CEPAM develops research on past societies and human-environment interrelationships in various geographical and cultural contexts, from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. Drawing on a wide range of methods, the study of cultural, biological and geological archives feeds into themes related to the material and symbolic expressions of societies, the evolution of environments and territories and the manufacture and use of monuments and documents.

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À première vue, peu de choses affleurent à la surface de ce bloc de construction de deux mètres de long pesant une demie tonne. Le bloc de l'Alcazar, découvert à Marseille et conservé au Musée d'Histoire de la ville, est pourtant une curiosité sans équivalent. Eclairé sous une nouvelle lumière, c'est une partie de l'histoire de la Méditerranée d'il y a 2600 ans qu'il raconte alors… Il fait apparaitre des centaines de graffiti antiques superposés, de lettres, de silhouettes humaines et…

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Bloc d'Alcazar en lumière (Le)
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In the forest of Plougastel, located in Finistère in Brittany, fragments of shale plates have been discovered, along with other archaeological materials. Decorated with abstract and naturalistic engravings, these tablets would date back to the early Azilian period, about 14,000 years ago. This period, still little known to prehistorians, is nevertheless important because it marks the transition between the previous period, the Magdalenian, and the Azilian, the period at the beginning of which…

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Azilian puzzle (The)

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