CALL FOR PAPERS – PREHISTORIC CONGRESS OF FRANCE, CLERMONT-FERRAND, JUNE 8–13, 2026
The Prehistoric Congress of France will take place in Clermont-Ferrand (France) from June 8 to 13, 2026, under the theme “Constrained spaces, imposed spaces? Prehistoric territories put to the test by the physical environment.”
Fifteen half-day sessions are proposed. To submit a paper, you must contact directly the organizers of the relevant session(s); their email addresses are provided on each dedicated session page.
Your paper proposal must include:
- Authors’ first and last names
- Institutional affiliation
- Title of the paper
- An abstract of approximately 1,500 characters
- Contact details
Papers will be reviewed starting February 28, which is the deadline for submissions (please note that some session organizers may require earlier submission dates—see the deadlines indicated on the individual session pages). The final program will be published in early April 2026.
Sessions:
- Session 1: Mountain spaces as structuring elements of Paleolithic mobility: from barriers to inhabited spaces
- Session 2: Environmental and social constraints during the Gravettian: what boundaries at the dawn of the Last Glacial Maximum?
- Session 3: From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean: islands between geographic contraction and cultural transgression
- Session 4: From the high altitudes of Central Asia to the high latitudes of Siberia: what challenges for the peopling of the Asian continent?
- Session 5: Identifying, characterizing, and representing constraints through the study of resource use by past and present societies
- Session 6: Our own constrained space: prehistorians put to the test of facts. Reflections on the weight of interpretive models in the ways of doing, saying, and seeing prehistory
- Session 7: Occupation of coastal and insular spaces challenged by marine spray
- Session 8: Where prehistory hides: how to detect, study, and preserve prehistoric sites in constrained, remote, and often neglected spaces
- Session 9: Interactions between human groups and the environment during the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean Alps
- Session 10: Emergence, diffusion, and resistance to technical innovation in Prehistory
- Session 11: Mountain megaliths from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age: erecting stones, reshaping landscapes, delineating territories, establishing power?
- Session 12: Beyond the prehistoric site: archival repositories and movable collections between undefined territories and constrained spaces
- Session 13: The mountain as space between wilderness and agropastoralism: prehistoric exploitation of high-altitude lands through bioarchaeology
- Session 14: Subterranean spaces: symbolic conquests, refuges, and challenges
- Session 15: Plain–mountain interactions during the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Western Europe
More information is available on the conference website.
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Amélie Duquesne (February 5, 2026). CALL FOR PAPERS – PREHISTORIC CONGRESS OF FRANCE, CLERMONT-FERRAND, JUNE 8–13, 2026. AFEQ CNF-INQUA. Retrieved June 10, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/15mv0


