Director :  Pierre ROUILLARD

The Maison René Ginouvès d’Archélogie et d’Ethnologie (René Ginouvès Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology) is a research institute which also teaches research, and brings under one roof several of the human and social sciences: Archaeology, the study of Prehistory and Protohistory, Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, as well as Ancient and Medieval History.


The René Ginouvès Institute has six research units bringing together some 250 specialists on Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America working on a wide range of periods from prehistory up to contemporary cultures.


The inbuilt interdisciplinarity of this research makes use of common equipment and work tools including a documentary centre which joins together the two Institute libraries, and the archives, cartographic, and photographic services. Four scientific reviews are edited from the Institute: Gallia, Paléorient, the Journal des Africanistes and the Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Training as a researcher can lead to one of three doctor’s degrees: The Cultures of Classical Antiquity; Environment and Archaeology; Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, Ethnomusicology and Prehistory.

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