France

A continental insularity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3918693
AutoresFrançoise Audouze (0000-0002-7646-1642, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), André Leroi‐gourhan (Collège de France)
Ano1981
Volume13
Fascículo2
Páginas170-189
Data de publicação1981-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.1981.9979824
OpenAlexW1992785112
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas30

French archaeology has experienced a separate development from the rest of Europe partly because of the preponderant importance of Palaeolithic researches. After a century dedicated to classification of artefacts, the interest has shifted towards excavations. The largest improvements and changes during the past two decades have been concerned with methods and strategies of excavation as well as data collecting. Open‐air and urban excavations have been adopted under the influence of B. Soudsky and British and Dutch archaeologists. Ethnographic excavations are a more specific creation of French palaeolithic archaeologists. Several approaches are currently developing which focus on ecology, technology and socio‐economics. But discoveries and improvements are due to individuals, and if a dynamic policy of development of the field is not engaged in the next years, French archaeology will suffer a serious crisis

Archaeology · Ethnography · Excavation · Geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology