Travaux et Recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES)

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TRACES is a research laboratory in archaeology. Techniques and technologies, material production, settlement history, habitat forms, economic systems, symbolic and funerary expressions, resource exploitation, dietary behaviors, etc. are thus examined from prehistory to the end of the medieval period, particularly in Eurasia and Africa.

Researcher in archaeozoology, she reconstructs the interactions between humans and animals, particularly large mammals, during the Paleolithic.

Several organised deposits containing hundreds of bronze objects have been uncovered at the site of a fortified settlement from the Final Bronze Age, near Gannat in the Allier department.

The Pomongwe shelter, in the Matobo Hills of Zimbabwe, is known for its rock paintings, done in a great variety of styles, painting techniques and colors.

It was previously thought that modern humans had reached the European continent 43 to 45 millennia ago, definitively replacing the Neanderthal populations.

The art of the first nomads of central Asia

Steles in Mongolia

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