The Société préhistorique française is a society founded in 1904, recognized as being of public utility in 1910. It obtained the Grand Prix de l'Archéologie in 1982. Its main activities are the organization of scientific meetings and the publication of monographs, of proceedings of conferences and of the journal ''
Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
Bulletin or The Bulletin may refer to:
Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals)
* ''Bulletin'' (online newspaper), a Swedish online newspaper
* ''The Bulletin'' (Australian periodical), an Australian magazine (1880–2008)
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''.
Past presidents
The French Prehistoric Society was notably chaired by
Léon Henri-Martin,
Léon Coutil,
Armand Viré,
Jean Pagès-Allary,
Félix Régnault,
André Vayson de Pradenne,
Paul Rivet
Paul Rivet (; 7 May 1876 – 21 March 1958) was a French ethnologist known for founding the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. In his professional work, Rivet is known for his theory that South America was originally populated in part by migrants ...
,
Saint-Just Péquart,
Henri Breuil
Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (28 February 1877 – 14 August 1961), often referred to as Abbé Breuil (), was a French Catholic Church, Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He studied cave art in the Somme ( ...
,
André Leroi-Gourhan
André Leroi-Gourhan (; ; 25 August 1911 – 19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.
...
,
Louis-René Nougier,
Camille Arambourg
Camille Arambourg (February 3, 1885 – November 19, 1969) was a French vertebrate paleontologist. He conducted extensive field work in North Africa. In the 1950s, he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian.
Du ...
,
René Joffroy
René Joffroy (10 June 1915 – 5 May 1986) was a French archaeologist. He was curator of the National Archaeological Museum from 1964 to 1984.
Publications
*1960: ''L'Oppidum de Vix et la civilisation hallstattienne finale'' thèse d'État
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,
Pierre-Roland Giot,
Jacques Briard
Jacques Briard (November 7, 1933 in Saint-Malo, France – June 14, 2002 in Chantepie, France) was a French archaeologist of prehistory. He was a student of Pierre-Roland Giot, the creator of modern Armorican archeology.
After his university ...
,
Denise de Sonneville-Bordes,
Yves Coppens
Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and a ...
,
Jean Roche,
Jean Clottes
Jean Clottes is a prominent French prehistorian. He was born in the French Pyrenees in 1933["Jean Cl ...](_blank)
et
Jacques Jaubert.
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Gérard Bailloud, Christiane Éluère,
Jean Clottes
Jean Clottes is a prominent French prehistorian. He was born in the French Pyrenees in 1933["Jean Cl ...](_blank)
,
Yves Coppens
Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and a ...
,
Henri de Lumley,
Jean Guilaine, Jean-Pierre Mohen, Claude Constantin and Jean Leclerc are honorary presidents.
References
External links
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1904 establishments in France
Historical societies of France
National archaeological organizations
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