Archaeology today seeks, by multiplying its specialized approaches, no to leave out any aspect of the ancient societies.

The subsistence mode (hunting, agriculture, gathering…), habitat (permanent or occasional, in stones or wood…), funerary practices (cremation, burial in stone chest or plain earth…), and craftwork productions (pottery, stone flaking, metallurgy …) define the human societies in space and time.
On a larger scale and despite the absence of texts, archaeology can tackle broader questions: peopling mechanisms of the island and trade relationships between communities.

This is what we invite you to discover here.
The styles, techniques, know-how's represent as many signatures of the societies that came before us.
The treatment offered to the dead bears a strong symbolic value that teaches us about the beliefs of the men of the past.
Common to dozens of cultures throughout the world, dolmens and menhirs are part of the spiritual life of the prehistoric populations.
The houses of the “living” in every of their shapes: makeshift shelters or hamlets of sedentary farmers, in stone or wood.

The survival of a human community is before any other thing based on its capacity for establishing and maintaining relationships with its neighbours!
Visited by the first Mediterranean navigators, 10 000 years ago, the islands were at last one day colonized by farmers.