Presentation

Jean Guilaine joined the CNRS in 1963 as a research associate, and left the organization in 1993 with the rank of research director of exceptional rank. In 1978, he became director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (chair Neolithization and early rural societies). After a spell as Inspector General of Archaeology at the French Ministry of Culture (1986-1990), he was elected Professor at the Collège de France in 1994, where he held a Chair in Archaeology (Civilisations de l'Europe au Néolithique et à l'Âge du Bronze) until 2007. In 2011, he became a member of the Institut (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres). A staunch advocate of multidisciplinary research, in 1978 he and Daniel Fabre founded the Centre d'anthropologie des sociétés rurales at EHESS and CNRS in Toulouse, which later became the Centre d'anthropologie (1978-2007). From 1986 to 1994, he edited the journal Gallia-Préhistoire and founded the Archives d'Écologie Préhistorique series . Awarded the Grand Prix for Archaeology by the French Ministry of Culture (1985), he is Honorary President of the French Prehistoric Society. Long-time Chairman of the Neolithic Commission of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, he is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History (Madrid), the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory (Florence), and the Society of Portuguese Archaeologists. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Barcelona (2006) and Lisbon (2018).

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