What were human burial practices like in late prehistoric times? Why did the Gauls dig underground? How can a Breton manor house disappear from the collective memory? These are just some of the questions that the In Trémuson, history is watching you! exhibition aims to answer.
⏵ Adapted as a digital version, it echoes the exhibition presented between September 21 and December 1, 2024 at the Graine de Culture media library in Trémuson (22).
It's now possible to play like it used to be
. Locus Ludi is a European multidisciplinary research group that studies and reconstructs ancient games that can be tested online. It is also possible today to listen to the sound of an
Aurignacian flute thanks to experimental archaeology.
These extraordinary examples of archaeological reconstructions show that play, whether musical or ludic, is a particularly rich object of study. Interpretation of the remains allows us to guess at the rules, but only to imagine the many ways in which games were played in different eras.
This exhibition aims to introduce the diversity of game-related artifacts from Inrap excavations, and how they renew our understanding of ludic and musical cultures through time.
For more than thirty years, preventive archaeology has allowed, by the number of excavations and their extent, to open many windows on the past of Clermont-Ferrand and the Clermont basin. A selection of objects testifies to the metamorphoses and continuities of this territory: tools of Paleolithic aurochs hunters, everyday objects from the Neolithic period, elegant Arvernian ceramics, merchandise labels from Augustonemetum (Clermont-Ferrand)...
Marseille is the only city in France that can claim twenty-six centuries of continuous urban history. Each period of occupation has partly covered the one that preceded it. The history of Marseille is therefore to be unearthed in the subsoil with archaeological discoveries of prehistoric occupation, site excavations of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Modern Era.
You can also discover the archaeological atlas
ARCHITEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF THE CITY OF MARSEILLE
Far from being fixed in time and space, architecture combines several goals which go, as Vitruvius reminded us in his "De architectura" in the first century BC, from the search for solidity to convenience and beauty. Today, we could probably add to this the will to establish constructions capable of ensuring the conservation and transmission of past productions. This exhibition proposes to approach this vast subject through four sections:
The materials and tools of construction:
The techniques of decoration
The functionalities of the building
The funerary architecture and memory
What is a face ? A nose, a mouth, two eyes: these are the elements that make it up, as taught to young children. During archaeological excavations, many faces have been unearthed. They reveal the fascination of societies throughout the ages for this part of the body, to which different meanings have been given.
Realistic portrait, simple sketch or even mask, the reality of the face is sometimes reproduced, sometimes questioned, according to religious beliefs and social practices.
Digging, clearing, building roads, bridges, cities: from time immemorial, men have never ceased to explore the possibilities of developing their territory. Through a selection of 30 objects from preventive excavations conducted by the Inrap in Brittany around Corseul (Côtes d'Armor) and ancient collections, this exhibition offers you a focus on the Roman road, an essential vector of the economic life of the territories during antiquity.
At that time, a vast road network was set up on the scale of the Roman Empire. Connected to river and sea routes, it favored exchanges and trade and allowed the diffusion of cultural modes and practices.
Is archaeology only about rocks? Don't be fooled by appearances. Objects unearthed during excavations that appear as simple stones often reveal a more complex reality. The mineral material, worked or transformed, is exploited in different forms and for a variety of uses. It bears witness to the life of past societies, to the exploitation of natural resources, to technological developments, to trade, to religious beliefs or even to the aesthetic concerns of populations. Sometimes tools, building materials, sometimes supports of artistic expression or elements of adornment, we invite you to discover the multiple facets of the pebbles discovered by archaeologists and which are as many objects to be studied, from Prehistory to contemporary times.
Rings, necklaces, torques, pendants, fibulae... Elements of adornment are frequently found in funerary contexts. They allow us to better understand the practices related to the rituals surrounding death in different periods. Richly worked, they reflect the rank and status of their owners and bear witness to the skills of craftsmen and fashions over the centuries. Gold, ivory, glass, amber, garnets... since the Bronze Age, the elites have been looking for rare and precious materials transformed into prestigious objects.
Le Néolithique , l'Inrap ouvre sa 5e saison culturelle. En France, la période néolithique , correspond aux premières sociétés d'agriculteurs, elle se situe entre 6000 et 2200 avant J.C. La sédentarisation progressive des populations est l'une des conséquences majeures de ce nouveau mode de vie.
From the beginning, man has been in contact with the animal with which he shares the same living space. It is essential to his survival by providing him with food and means to cover his daily needs, such as the manufacture of bone tools. At the beginning of the Neolithic (from 6,000 to 2,200 BC in France), the domestication of certain species modifies the relationship between man and animal : it becomes a larger and controlled resource and their relationship is then more intimate. The relationship with the animal is also deeper: man contemplates it in the wild, admires its rarity, its qualities and fantasizes its virtues. The animal is sometimes observed, sometimes imagined and even divinized.
This exhibition offers you a panorama of the most diverse links that man and animals of all kinds (but also feathers and scales) have maintained and sometimes still maintain. Close relations which testify of an important debt of the man towards the fauna which it côtoie.
This exhibition devoted to the practices and representations of violence through the centuries, presents a selection of twenty-three objects from preventive archaeological excavations conducted by Inrap in recent years. Coming from different deposits, these objects testify to the richness, diversity and complexity of our relationship to violence.
We invite you to discover them!
