International audienceThe excavation linked to the building of a new high way at Vilhers-Adam (Val d'Oise France) allowed discovering of very important Pleistocene loess and palaeosols pedosedimentary sequences, and a Palaeolithic level attributable to the young phase of the Middle Palaeolithic (±100 ka BP) The very important interdisciplinary work that has been overtaken (stratigraphy, sedimentology, micromorphology, malacology, palynology and TL-IRSL dating) has led to the detailed characterisation of three overlapping Glacial-interglacial sequences (cumulative thickness* 19 m), dating from the Younger Middle Pleistocene (MIS 8/7 and 7/6), to the Upper Pleistocene (MIS 5 to 2) (± 300 to 15 ka BP). In addition this study has provided a ver...