Three career itineraries that linked prehistory, archaeology, and technology

Sophie A. de Beaune (1, 2)

1 Archéologies environnementales
2 UJML3 LC - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 - Faculté des Lettres et civilisations

There are numerous bridges between technology and prehistoric archaeology. The author will illustrate them herein by reference to three major figures who marked 150 years of history from the middle of the XIXth century to today. The first, Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, can be seen as a forerunner even if the second, Leroi-Gourhan, does not seem to have read his work or, at least, does not cite him in his own writing. Conversely, François Sigaut, the third main figure of our itinerary both read his work and was responsible for him being discovered in France at the end of the 1980s when he was still unknown, as it were.

Mots clés: History of prehistory; history of techniques; anthropology of techniques; Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; André Leroi-Gourhan; François Sigaut

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Histoire

Sophie A. de Beaune. Three career itineraries that linked prehistory, archaeology, and technology: Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) and François Sigaut (1940-2012). Sophie A. de Beaune; Alessandro Guidi; Oscar Moro Abadía; Massimo Tarantini. New Advances in the History of Archaeology, Archaeopress Publishing, pp.96-107, 2021, Proceedings of the session organized by the history of archaeology scientific commission at the XVIII world Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric (UISPP) held in Paris, 4-9 juin 2018, 978-1-80327-072-2. ⟨halshs-03822454⟩