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Anita Herle, Boris Wastiau, Guido Gryseels, Hamady Bocoum et Friedrich von Bose © musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Cyril Zannettacci Mme Anita HERLE La création du musée du quai Branly a donné lieu à de nombreuses controverses à Paris et dans le monde entier. Son ouverture en 2006 a stimulé les débats d’ordre muséologique autour de la politique de la représentation, de l’héritage du colonialisme dans les collections des musées, des relations entre les approches fondées sur l’arch..

Discussion avec le public

De la salle Merci pour ces intéressantes communications. Nous sommes en train de nous interroger sur les apports du modèle du quai Branly, sur les différences et les ressemblances entre différents projets. Une m’est apparue et me semble tout à fait intéressante. À l’origine et en amont de ces projets, il y a presque toujours eu une discussion sur la réunion ou non des collections européennes et extraeuropéennes. Cela ne se pose évidemment pas pour Boris qui a fait le choix de remettre tout ce..

The Middle Stone Age of Atlantic Africa: A critical review

Evidence of early Homo sapiens populations at the Atlantic coast of Africa remains relatively poorly known in relation to other regions of the continent. Nevertheless, available data across the continent provides a good starting point for current and future research investigations. The many sites known, documented and studied contribute in an increasingly way to the global understanding of the human emergence, including evidence of human evolutionary and technological advances, specific adaptations to diverse environments, the diffusion of Homo species and how humans interacted with each other from the “Early Stone Age (ESA)” through to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) from northern and southern Africa to the West. The differences of knowledge between the Atlantic coast in regard to other regions might be attributed to a number of reasons including but not limited to the history of scientific interest, site formation processes or economic, institutional and political constraints. However, the region received a renewed attention and funds that, combined with new methods and techniques, has been allowing an increased training of new researchers and the acquisition of high-resolution archaeological, paleoenvironmental and chronological data. Together, these inputs will reduce the differences of knowledge between the Atlantic coast and the Northern, Southern and Eastern Africa regions. The African Atlantic Coast represents more than 40% of the continent's perimeter, covering all Africa's climate zones, the hot arid environments, mountainous regions, and tropical rainforest could become relevant barriers for human mobility, but the shallow continental platform, and the great number of river basins allowed mobility between north and south coastal biomes into the continental interiors. These may have provided predictable patchy clusters of resources allowing human populations to thrive, enabling greater mobility and consequent diffusion of cultural traits, resources, and DNA. In this paper we review the record about the prehistory, paleoenvironments and paleoanthropological visibility and potentiality of Atlantic Africa

Histoire des sciences au Moyen Âge

Programme de l’année 2010-2011 : I. Les intérêts scientifiques dans les commentaires bibliques (suite). — II. Les transformations de la matière et leurs théories médiévales (suite)

Les traditions mégalithiques de Sénégambie

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Towards other Atlantic shores: Reviewing Senegambian megalithism

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