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Sábado 16 septiembre 2023, 15:00Passed
Setembre 2023
Dissabte 16
15:00 - 16:00
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Château du Grand-Pressigny - Musée de la préhistoire

Rue du Rempart 37350 Le Grand-Pressigny
  • Indre-et-Loire
  • Centre-Val de Loire

Conference "The last hunters of the end of ice ages" by Fiona Kildea (Inrap) and Quentin Dardaillon

Come and discover through a conference presented by the archaeologists of Inrap, the latest archaeological discoveries made in Montlouis-sur-Loire.
Sábado 16 septiembre 2023, 15:00Passed
Fiona Kildea © Inrap

Come discover through a conference presented by the Inrap archaeologists, the latest archaeological discoveries made in Montlouis-sur-Loire. 'In the space of two years, three new archaeological sites of about 12,000 years have been excavated by the same research team of the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) in the middle of the Loire Valley. The end of glacial times is marked by a rapid alternation of cold and more temperate climatic phases generating major changes in river dynamics, vegetation cover and wildlife. Three camps of the last great culture of the Upper Palaeolithic, the Laborian, were excavated between 2020 and 2022 in Muides-sur-Loire (41) and Montlouis-sur-Loire (37). Their study makes it possible to document the evolution of the technical traditions of flint cutting, at the heart of the economies of these groups, in accordance with the available natural resources. Hunting equipment, hunted game, art furniture and the spatial organization of the camps are all fields that are informed by the observations made during the excavations.

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Château du Grand-Pressigny - Musée de la préhistoire
Rue du Rempart 37350 Le Grand-Pressigny
  • Indre-et-Loire
  • Centre-Val de Loire
The castle of the Grand-Pressigny, powerful defensive fortress in the eleventh century then imposing residential homes in the Renaissance, houses a museum of Prehistory entirely restructured, considerably enlarged and enriched since 2009\. The collections present the life and material equipment of men in Touraine, between 100,000 and 1,000 years before our era. They place particular emphasis on Grand-Pressigny flint in its geological, technical, economic and social dimensions. The Pressignian phenomenon of the end of the Neolithic, in the 3rd millennium, occupies a place of choice, with, for the first time, the presentation of the spectacular deposit of the Creusette, methods of cutting the long flint blades, the European diffusion of these masterpieces the size of flint and the projection of a film tracing the manufacture of large flint blades.
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Musée, salle d'exposition, Monument historique, Tourisme et handicap, Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir i Musée de France
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