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Sanitation, Alimentation, Hygiene: The Latrines of Ostia, Port of Rome – SAHYLOR
The aim of this multidisciplinary project is to study the roughly one hundred ground-floor latrines in the city of Ostia, one of the main cities of the Roman Empire, port and image of Rome, as well as the fifty or so downpipes considered to be evacuations of upper storey latrines. Their study will a
Digital Tristes Tropiques – TROPIQUES
The present project aims at the digital genetic edition of Tristes Tropiques, a masterpiece of anthropology written by Claude Lévi-Strauss in 1955. Tracing the creative process in all its complexity is now a recognised approach for writers, artists, but also philosophers. In the social sciences, how
Gallic, Etruscan and Phocaean rites of commensality – GEPRICO
The Phoceans and Etruscans made their cultural mark on the North-Mediterranean area. Finished products, raw materials, ideas, beliefs and ritual practices circulated widely and played their part in the rapid evolution of Mediterranean societies. 5 sites in the north-western Mediterranean (Tarquinia,
Decorated caves under climate change: Redefining an effective conservation strategy – DECACLIM
The common conservation strategy of decorated caves focuses on maintaining a stable underground microclimate with time. Cave paintings are generally situated at a rock/thin water film/atmosphere interface that should remain as constant as possible. The current environmental monitoring of shallow dec
C.ADER: Conservation of ancient Aircrafts: non-destructive Diagnosis of damagEs for a smart coRrosion protection – C-ADER
The preservation of cultural and scientific heritage has been an important concern for centuries. In scientific and technical museums, aluminium is present in almost all collections, from aircraft to spacecraft, from industrial objects to everyday objects. Unfortunately, the aluminum alloys used in
Modelling Interactions between Climate Change and Agriculture in the Ancient West – MICA
The multidisciplinary MICA project aims to assess the impact of climatic variations on crop productivity (wheat, barley, millet, grapevine, olive) and their influence, in interaction with social factors, on the transformation of agrarian economies and agrobiodiversity. MICA focuses on four areas of
Mental health of migrants' : actors, practices, networks (1950-1980, France, Switzerland, Germany) – MigraPsy
Psychiatry in the second half of the 20th century is marked by many changes: introduction of neuroleptics, deinstitutionalisation, opening up to populations that were not yet taken care of, diversification of the staff working in institutions... At the same time, Western Europe is definitively trans
Seafaring men of modern times: seafaring professions, coastal links and hygienic conditions – GEMER
GEMER takes into account all the records concerning seamen. This project cross-references the divisions of seamen's registers and the crews books with the civil registers. This allows us to follow each seaman in his navigations, but also to study his coastal links (family, habitat, multi-activity) a
The Roman lead market: resources, organization, actors – FISTULAE
The aim of this project is to better understand the last stage of the production chain of a metal, lead, which was omnipresent in the Roman period, from the end of the Republic and under the Empire, that is, its marketing, its organisation, its logistics and its constraints, and the management of th
Exchanges and transfers of prestige goods between the Maya and Costa Rican areas between AD 300 and AD 700 – MAYACOSTA
During the classic period (AD 250-950), the Maya interacted with many neighboring cultures, however, little is known about their interactions with more distant societies. Important quantities of iron ore mirrors and jade plaques, associated with the Maya elites, were thus found in Costa Rica some 10
Rethinking the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition: from human migrations to settlement systems during MIS 3 via the example of the Pyrenees – TransPyr
This project aims to investigate the conditions associated with the arrival of Homo sapiens and the advent of the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe via an approach that combines palaeoenvironmental and archaeological studies. The use of the Northern Pyrenees as a case study reflects a desire to a
THE HOLOCENE ROCK ART OF THE IBERIAN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN: HOW YOU PAINT, WHO YOU ARE – HOLOGRAM
HOLOGRAM aims to reach a better comprehension of the societies involved in the Neolithisation of Mediterranean Iberia through an innovative holistic approach to their rock art paintings, whose cultural complexity and chronology remain uncertain. Although this graphic record is exceptional in Prehist
Brass monetary alloys in La Tène Culture: new perspectives on the monetary practices in the Celtic Society – CelticBrassCoins
Based on an interdisciplinary approach, Celtic Brass Coins project rests on an original corpus of Celtic coins which are an archaeological material of the highest value to get insight in the technology, economics and social organization of Ancient societies. Celtic Brass Coins proposes to undertake
LINK: Linking archaeology, anthropology and genomics to study the evolution and social organisation of Neolithic-Bronze Age communities in southwest France – LINK
The aim of the LINK project is to better understand the cultural and biological processes underlying the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in South-western France by conducting a fully integrated study including archaeology, C14 datation, anthropology and genomics. This period is marke
Autumnal lambing in the Mediterranean area: the history of complex interactions between biology, paleoenvironments and technical systems – AUTUMN_LAMBS
Domestication was a major transformation in human/animal relationship. In addition to changes in morphology and other appearance characteristics, domestication also influenced animals and plants biological rhythms, in particular in their reproductive cycle. Archaeology is giving growing attention to
Philanthropic foundations for scientific research (1916-1956) – FONDASCIENCE
Thanks to a collective and transversal analysis, the objective of FONDASCIENCE is to study the role of philanthropic foundations in the development of scientific research from 1910 to 1956, by exploiting archives that have been little questioned or even totally unpublished until now. The starting hy
Sacredness by Design. Narratives and frames for the materiality of Notre-Dame de Paris – SACRADE
The research program SACRADE explores the materials used to rebuild the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and the objects destined to return to it, as well as the groups of people who consider themselves concerned by its restoration. It aims to document the creation of narratives and the models of he
Circulation of Knowledge in the Middle Ages in the 12th Century. New Tools, New Perspectives, New Hypotheses. – CiSaMe
The project "Circulation des Savoirs Médiévaux - CiSaMe" aims at renewing in depth the history of the circulation of knowledge - legal, theological and philosophical - during a long twelfth century (1050-1220), upstream of the institutionalization of disciplines within the medieval university. It in
Characterizing the deep roots of Gender Inequalities through molecular archaeology – GenIn
GenIn proposes a multi-disciplinary approach aiming at better understanding the deep roots of gender inequalities by exploring the status and life of women during the transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in occidental Europe. More specifically, GenIn aims at leveraging the la
First proto-industrial ceramic FACTories in the 7th-2nd millennia BCE Mesopotamia and Levant. WORK organization from the proto-urban settlements to the supra-regional kingdoms – FACT_WORK
The FACT.WORK project aims to study the appearance and evolution of the first large-scale manufactures in the history of mankind in Mesopotamia and the Levant from the 7th to the 2nd millennium BCE. This programme relies on an innovative and interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological, spati
Power and Written Culture in 18th century BC Upper Mesopotamia – PCEHM
The "revolution in writing" that characterised the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamia took place first in central and southern Iraq. It is only at the end of the 19th century BC that we see the new practices spread to Upper Mesopotamia, i.e. Northern Iraq and Eastern Syria, where thou
Steppe sustainability in a changing world – STEPABILITY
The arid steppe ecosystems characteristic of the Arid Circum-Caspian Zone (ACC) are favoured by current and future climate change. It is therefore essential to better understand the ecosystem services that they are able to provide on a sustainable basis, in particular for human societies, particular
Method for dating archaeological lime mortar : characterization, extraction, datation, validation. – MEMOAr
MEMOAr focuses on a key element of research in building archaeology: the dating of construction phases. Currently, the study of lime mortars allows us to distinguish these phases but not to date them. The 14C dating method for lime mortars gives unreliable results because these are very heterogeneou
From Neanderthals to Homo sapiens - Understanding a cultural (r)evolution in Europe during the Palaeolithic – NeHos
The interdisciplinary project NeHos will address fundamental questions regarding the transition between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens populations in Europe during the 55,000-30,000 period. This is a critically important period during which Homo sapiens dispersed out of Africa into Eurasia, new lithic
Maritime Asian Networks of Buddhist Tantra – MANTRA
This project combines a wide geographical perspective and network dynamics applied to the circulation of Tantric Buddhist agents, texts, and icons across the maritime swathe of territory called ‘Maritime Asia’. It aims at reshaping the scholarly understanding of Buddhist Tantra as both a historica
Early Human Colonization of Madagascar and its long term Impact on the Landscapes – Madeogen
Madagascar has all the assets to be the focus of modern multidisciplinary research concerned with sustainability between societies and nature. Indeed, its ancient insularity has allowed an incredible specific diversity but at the same time fragile in the face of anthropogenic constraints that began
An integrated approach to protohistoric monumental tombs in the Arabian Peninsula – ARABIANCAIRNS
ARABIANCAIRNS aims to analyze the large-scale megalithic phenomenon of cairn tombs, emblematic of protohistoric Arabia (c. 5500-300 BCE). Considered as territorial markers, they are still visible today by hundreds of thousands over an immense territory. They appear in a context of climatic aridifica
Analysis of gold and its uses as a painting material, Western Europe,16th-17th c. – AORUM
The interdisciplinary AORUM project aims to study gold as a painting material in artistic practices in Western Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries, a period when it is usually thought gold is no more used in artistic pratices of painting. Its ambition is to gather an original corpus of artwor
French Renaissance Typography (1470-1640) – TYPOREF
TYPOREF's main goal is to understand the evolution of typographic design in French Renaissance book, by developing digital tools. The project will investigate three complementary corpuses : 1. It will register, describe and study types and ornaments in French books. A specific online database wil
The French Art Rental Libraries and their collections 1982-2022 – ARP_Artotheque-Recherche-Patri
The first public art rental library was inaugurated fifty years ago in France. More than half a century has passed, yet the lack of recognition of this cultural institution, its actions and its collections is such that the French word "artothèque" raises questions. Unevenly distributed over the terr