Boris Valentin

Boris Valentin, professor at Paris 1 University, studies the last hunter-gatherers in Europe (14^th–6^th millennium cal. BC). In this context, he coordinates research on prehistoric rock art near Fontainebleau, having previously directed excavations at the Magdalenian site of Étiolles (Essonne). He is the author of De Courbet à Lascaux. Une origine du monde préhistorique (INHA, 2024), as well as Si loin, si près. Pour en finir avec la Préhistoire (Flammarion, 2019) with Jean-Michel Geneste, after publishing a Que sais-je ? on the Paleolithic period, reprinted for the second time in 2024, and around a hundred specialized articles or chapters. He is concerned with the social utility that can generally be found in archaeology (more than 90 articles writen for the general public) and tries in particular to show how relative the separation between prehistory and history appears to be. He is also interested in contemporary archaeology, without however practicing it himself. For these reasons, he is a correspondent for the magazine L’Histoire.