Presentation

ISSN 2108-6532

An archaeology journal supporting a holistic approach to past societies.

Palethnology is a bilingual archaeology journal in which each contribution is published in both French and English. Its exclusively digital platform enables the texts to be accompanied by numerous high definition illustrations in any format, including video and 3D models. The journal’s editorial policy and the evaluation criteria for submitted articles (anonymous peer review) ensure that new research of the highest academic standard is made widely available to both French- and English-speaking readers.

Palethnology publishes work which aims to reconstruct the socio-cultural dimensions of past communities. Material culture is studied through aspects such as technology, zooarchaeology, art and architecture, as well as human palaeobiology and palaeoenvironmental studies. The journal is open to all approaches, such as monograph-type collections of texts and methodological, historiographical or epistemological essays. No region of the world, prehistoric or historical period or archaeological school is given precedence.

Palethnology’s objective is therefore one of true comparative archaeology which goes beyond the material dimension of the remains, in order to promote the reconstruction of the gestures, intentions, representations, social structures, and the day-to-day environments of the men and women of the past, which made up society. Through this approach, Palethnology intends to participate in a reflection on an archaeology which will – by its methods, concepts, multiple links to other disciplines, and also by the temporal depth it incorporates – occupy a unique position within the human sciences. In promoting this palethnological conception of archaeology, the journal encourages dialogue with the whole of human sciences.

Palethnology publishes an annual thematic volume, as well as a regularly updated volume of miscellany. Since 2015, Palethnology has been published by the Presses Universitaires du Midi (Toulouse).

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P@lethnology 9 – 2017 Archéologie et sciences sociales sous la direction de Philippe BOISSINOT 7 articles

P@lethnology 8 – 2016 Household Archaeology: A Transatlantic Comparative Approach directed by Claude CHAPDELAINE, Adrian L. BURKE and Karim GERNIGON 11 articles

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P@lethnology 7 – 2015 Aurignacian Genius : Art, Technology and Society of the First Modern Humans in Europe directed by Randall White, Raphaëlle Bourrillon, with the collaboration of François BON 17 articles

P@lethnology 6 – 2014 Techniques and Territories New Insights into Mesolithic Cultures directed by Auréade HENRY, Benjamin MARQUEBIELLE, Lorène CHESNAUX et Sylvène MICHEL 13 articles

P@lethnology 5 – 2013 Pleistocene Art of the World Short articles directed by Jean CLOTTES 145 articles

P@lethnology 4 – 2012 Palethnology of Africa directed by François-Xavier FAUVELLE-AYMAR 10 articles

P@lethnology 3 – 2011 Hunting Camps in Prehistory. Current Archaeological Approaches directed by François BON, Sandrine COSTAMAGNO and Nicolas VALDEYRON 19 articles

P@lethnology 2 – 2010 The Taphonomy of Burned Organic Residues and Combustion Features in Archaeological Contexts directed by Isabelle THÉRY-PARISOT, Lucie CHABAL and Sandrine COSTAMAGNO 17 articles

P@lethnology 1 – 2009 Projectile Weapon Elements from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic directed by Jean-Marc PÉTILLON, Marie-Hélène DIAS-MEIRINHO, Pierre CATTELAIN, Matthieu HONEGGER, Christian NORMAND and Nicolas VALDEYRON 17 articles

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