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The purpose of the journal is to facilitate exchanges between prehistorians, archaeologists, and palaeoanthropologists working between the Mediterranean and the Indus and between Central Asia and the Gulf, as well as among specialists in the various fields concerned with the evolution of humans in their natural environment Twice
a year Paléorient publishes several synthetic articles, notes,
reviews in French or English, and a general bibliographical index
of books and articles which have appeared in the two preceding years.
Some issues are devoted to proceedings of colloquia ; others are
thematic. All contributions are accompanied by abstracts and lists
of key-words in French and English |
Paléorient is controlled by a committee composed of fifteen members including ten scientists (at the moment representing paleontology, biological anthropology, prehistory, archaeology, zoo-archaeology, and geography). This committee receives the help of a larger scientific committee of thirty-six scholars representing thirteen nationalities and eight disciplines. |
| HISTORY Founded by Jean Perrot and Bernard Vandermeersch in 1973 with the aid of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Paléorient became in 1975 a publication of the CNRS. The idea of dedicating a journal to the pre- and proto-history of Southwestern Asia arose among a group of scholars of the CNRS from various fields who had been working since the beginning of the 1960s on common themes in different countries of the Near East. To the difficulties of communication across political barriers was added a lack of wide means of publication permitting the exchange of ideas, not simply between archaeologists and prehistorians, but above all between these and biologists, geologists, geophysicists, chemists, and others not directly concerned with archaeology. Paleorient has and still does try to resolve these difficulties. For twenty years, not only Europeans, Arabs, and Israelis, but also North Americans, scholars from Central Asia, Australia, and Japan, have published regularly in Paléorient the results of their work and more theoretical syntheses about the ancient past of the region. In addition, the journal has become a place where those involved in different intellectual traditions and different scientific currents can confront each other's ideas |
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