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The sites of Teviec and Hoedic, located in Brittany and excavated from 1928 to 1934 by Marthe and Saint-Just Pequart, have yielded twenty-odd graves dating to the end of the Mesolithic and containing almost forty individuals. Nearly a century later, they remain the most important funerary groups ever discovered in France for this period, and two major French Mesolithic sites. Until these days though, despite previous re-examinations of part of the unearthed material, no general review of the field data or of the human remains had ever been carried out, and all the debates concerning the...

Connu depuis le milieu du 19e siecle, le site du Placard est un site majeur du Paleolithique superieur francais. Paradoxalement, en raison de l'anciennete des premieres fouilles, mal documentees, les dizaines de milliers de vestiges qui y ont ete decouverts sont pour la plupart inedits ou n'ont fait l'objet que d'etudes ponctuelles et souvent obsoletes. C'est le cas en particulier des restes humains, dont l'attribution culturelle etait par ailleurs jusqu'a recemment discutee. Leur datation montre qu'ils appartiennent a plusieurs epoques, mais la plus grande partie d'entre eux constitue un lot...

Papers on skull interpretations and related archaeological issues from a roundtable event organized by La Musee National de Prehistoire, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac (Dordogne, France), in October 2010. Contents: 1) Decapitation/decollation: une distinction justifiee ? (Bruno Boulestin et Dominique Henry-Gambier); 2) Tetes coupees, tetes-trophees. L'exemple de l'ile de Paques (Nicolas Cauwe); 3) Pourquoi couper des tetes ? (Alain Testart); 4) Quelques reflexions a propos des coupes craniennes prehistoriques (Bruno Boulestin); 5) Tetes coupees: donnees archeo-anthropologiques et lignee neandertalienne...

Megalithic monuments from Neolithic Europe have long been considered as rough copies of the monumental architectures built by the first civilizations of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. When radiocarbon dating jeopardized this diffusionist pattern, though, specialists could not but wonder why and how these Neolithic societies, usually considered as small village communities', had erected such monuments. In order to answer these questions and seek explanations in the social, political or religious contexts of recent or present megalith-building societies, the ethnological frame of...