Cultural Center "Gilbert de Venables"
Gilbert's notebooks
The historical and archaeological research carried out addresses different themes and disciplines to understand the history of the village. The writing of historical notices on various themes, the organization of conferences with speakers having confirmed knowledge will give another dimension to all the work carried out.
The relationship of L'if with the name Venables:
It is the name of a typological part of the municipal territory which is located within a natural perimeter which constitutes the Gournay ravine, the Fausse Louvel and the If. It is in this area that we find the oldest human settlements which occurred between the Middle Paleolithic (-40,000 years) until the Roman occupation of Gaul.
Throughout this period we see traces of temporary occupations left by the passage of Neanderthal man until the Neolithic period. At the end of the Neolithic we witness the installation of proto-Celtic peoples who will abandon the plateau to settle towards an occupation of the terraces close to the river which reforms thanks to the warming during this period.
The mastery of metallurgy will be at the origin of the first major intense and complex economic exchanges based on production and distribution covering vast territories...........