International audienceThe variations both in time and in space of river systems make it necessary to develop paleoenvironmental surveys to better account for the strategies of occupation of the valley beds by men. This is the object of this paper which deals with the Deûle valley in which we publich the first stratigraphical results obtained in the Houplin-Ancoisne stretch, just upstream from the Lille urban area. The stress is laid on identifying one of the two historical channels draining the valley bed. The stratigraphical section points to the existence of a late iceage channel whose early filling starts around 12 500 BP and ends at the end of the Dryas (after 10 200 BP). This latter is cut on its right-hand bank by a second channel whi...