| Summary: | This article proposes to revisit the origins and objectives of the creation at the start of the 1980s of the journal Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie, a journal that rapidly became an inevitable crossroads for debates relating to archaeology. Besides its importance for the circulation and diffusion of professional information, the journal has been very much interested in methodological and theoretical issues. Taking up again a 1980 article, followed by several others, we shed light on the situation of theoretical debates on the discipline in France, their development in relation to the New Archaeology then the post-processual archaeology of anglophone countries. Lastly we recall the considerable place taken recently by preventive archaeology, its construction, its defence and its lack of means for study and publication, at a time when research stemming from archaeology (environmental problems, collapse, inequalities, violence, etc.) is increasingly involved in today's most intensive societal debates.
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