Yes, it's the city museum, also known as Hôtel du Cardinal Fleury. They have some really great palaeontological/geological collections, and the regional prehistory exhibition is great (all renovated in 2018!)
I completely agree, it's one of the most underrated museums! (along with the one in Lodève, if you haven't been there yet :) )
Absolutely it’s Benoit Clarys artwork, here for la Cité de la préhistoire d’Orgnac I think(with Neanderthals, Sapiens and Denisova)
Extented deadline to March 20th! ✨✨
Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Where do I start?! 1/4
La France de Macron c'est aussi ce silence lorsque l'extrême-droite assassine. C'est ce mépris pour les victimes et leur famille. Ce sont des médias de masse complices pour dédiaboliser un parti suprémaciste.
Ce pays a déjà basculé depuis longtemps.
Je serai à jamais antifasciste.
Dessin. Titre : une minute de silence à l'Assemblée nationale pour Quentin Deranque. Une femme demande à Yaël Braun-Pivet : "Et pour les victimes de crimes racistes ?" Celle-ci lui répond : "Des années de silence, ça vous suffit pas ?"
Silence
The artist is Benoit Clarys, I am sure he will answer if you contact him! :)
The Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age represent key phases in human prehistory, marked by technological innovations, evolving subsistence strategies, and changing spatial dynamics across diverse ecological settings. Advancing our understanding of how prehistoric groups organized their territories requires examining different site types—caves, rockshelters, and open-air sites—each preserving distinct dimensions of past human behavior. While caves and rockshelters often provide long-term or recurrent occupations with rich faunal records, open-air contexts frequently offer higher-resolution spatial patterning and insights into short-term or task-specific activities. This session explores how technological practices, subsistence behaviors, mobility strategies, and environmental conditions intersected to shape spatial and settlement dynamics during the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. By integrating evidence of site function, occupation duration, landscape use, and resource exploitation, we aim to refine and update interpretations of how prehistoric groups structured their activities and adapted to shifting ecological and climatic contexts. We particularly welcome multidisciplinary studies that combine technological, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental, zooarchaeological, spatial, or chronometric data to reconstruct territorial organization and mobility. However, discipline-specific research is also encouraged when it contributes meaningful insights into Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age settlement systems. Comparative regional analyses, high-resolution site studies, and integrative models of technological or economic change are especially relevant.
#UISPP2026 Call for papers!
Join us for the MP and MSA Commission thematic session: "Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories"
Deadline: 28 February!
► uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts
The Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age represent key phases in human prehistory, marked by technological innovations, evolving subsistence strategies, and changing spatial dynamics across diverse ecological settings. Advancing our understanding of how prehistoric groups organized their territories requires examining different site types—caves, rockshelters, and open-air sites—each preserving distinct dimensions of past human behavior. While caves and rockshelters often provide long-term or recurrent occupations with rich faunal records, open-air contexts frequently offer higher-resolution spatial patterning and insights into short-term or task-specific activities. This session explores how technological practices, subsistence behaviors, mobility strategies, and environmental conditions intersected to shape spatial and settlement dynamics during the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. By integrating evidence of site function, occupation duration, landscape use, and resource exploitation, we aim to refine and update interpretations of how prehistoric groups structured their activities and adapted to shifting ecological and climatic contexts. We particularly welcome multidisciplinary studies that combine technological, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental, zooarchaeological, spatial, or chronometric data to reconstruct territorial organization and mobility. However, discipline-specific research is also encouraged when it contributes meaningful insights into Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age settlement systems. Comparative regional analyses, high-resolution site studies, and integrative models of technological or economic change are especially relevant.
#UISPP2026 Call for papers!
Join us for the MP and MSA Commission thematic session: "Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories"
Deadline: 28 February!
► uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts
Les Iraniens commencent à découvrir les noms, les photos, les circonstances de la mort de milliers de victimes, tandis que le régime continue sa politique de terreur. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
📰 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool from Ice Age England identified was likely used by Neanderthals or members of Homo heidelbergensis to retouch stone tools
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologymag.bsky.social
archaeology.org/news/2026/01...
Out soon!!
The 6th CONEXP proceedings ✨
#ExperimentalArchaeology #CONEXP
#25ans 17 janvier 2001
Après de longs débats parlementaires, la loi sur l' #archéologie préventive est promulguée le 17 janvier 2001.
Elle a pour fondement légal la Convention européenne pour la protection du patrimoine archéologique, signée à Malte le 16 janvier 1992
18-month Postdoc in Biomolecular Archaeology at CNRS/CEPAM (Nice).
Focus: Lipidomics & starch analysis of West African ceramics for the RainForStory project (Congo Basin agriculture).
📅 Deadline: 12 Jan 2026
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)
Deadline extented until November 30!
Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟
► uispp2026.syskonf.pl
#UISPP2026
Interested in Cores-on-Flakes and Splits?
Our new paper is finally online, and open-access!
►►► "The use of splits and flakes as blanks for debitage or shaping: examples from the late Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Southern France" journals.openedition.org//paleo/10157
#LithicTechnology
Modifications observed on shells from La Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire, France, including perforations made by pressure and pigment staining. CREDIT: Solange Rigaud
Pigments and shells with drilled holes to be used as beads found with Châtelperronian stone tools in France suggest humans—or Neanderthals—were decorating themselves in the Middle Paleolithic, just as Homo sapiens were moving into Eurasia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🔥Our new paper is out!
@6rilviallet.bsky.social @loiclebreton.bsky.social
"Biface industries in southern France during the Middle Pleistocene: A mosaic of technical behaviours"
Historical Biology - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.
She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.
#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane
Photo: Marko Zlousic
& thanks to the colleagues who presented their sites during the excursion at Fontainebleau (Alexandre Cantin, Éric Robert) & Resson (David Hérisson, Julie Dabkowski) 🍃 #ESHE2025
Then organising #ESHE2025 with great colleagues from HNHP! @recherche.mnhn.fr @amelinebardo.bsky.social (& others not on Bluesky)
First, with the French-Albanian Archaeological mission GRAAL ( @6rilviallet.bsky.social ) , reexamining ancient collections and conducting new fieldwork 🦴🐻
Back from a few weeks of intense work, from fieldwork in Albania to organising #ESHE2025 !
🫶 always the best part!
En Allemagne, il présenterait sa démission ce soir, mais nous sommes en France alors il a reprendre deux fois des pâtes en disant que Mediapart c'est rien que des fouilles merde anti France islamo-wokistes.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine?
Sunflower fields - Haute-Garonne
Felid distal phalanx
Coupe Gorge cave - squares excavated
New findings, large herbivores remains
First week of excavation at Coupe Gorge Cave - Montmaurin 🍃🦴
#fieldwork #excavation #middlepalaeolithic
