France

A continental insularity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3918693
AutoresFrançoise Audouze (0000-0002-7646-1642, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), André Leroi‐gourhan (Collège de France)
Año1981
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas170-189
Fecha de publicación1981-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.1981.9979824
OpenAlexW1992785112
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias 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