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People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean – POMEDOR
Within the fast expanding area of research on food and foodways, the medieval Eastern Mediterranean is still very much an unexplored area, but one whose great potential is further enhanced by recent advances in archaeological and archaeometric studies. The aim of our project is to explore and develo
The religion of the Chinese in France – FRANCHIR
In less than four decades and without receiving much outside notice, Chinese religion has settled in France. The number of sites for religious practice has risen spectacularly, including small shrines for Earth and Wealth gods in restaurants and other commercial venues; community temples for the wor
Archaeology of the origins: emergence and evolution of the first human technologies – ARCHOR
During new archaeological surveys west of Lake Turkana in Kenya in 2011, the team of Mission Préhistorique au Kenya discovers the world's oldest archeological site, Lomekwi 3 (LOM3), dated at 3.3 millions of years (Ma). Since 2012, excavation of the site has uncovered over a hundred stone artefacts
The making of "cultural heritage": remembrance, knowledge and politics in today's Indigenous America. – FABRIQ‘AM
Patrimonialization (the various means by which cultural features –either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become, for Amerindian groups, a major means to gain visibility and recognition in the new Latin American social and political landscapes where multicultu
Transliteracy as the Convergence of Media, Information and Computer literacies – TRANSLIT
The current convergence of media literacy, information literacy and computer literacy is one of the most important recent transformations of “the culture of information.” This convergence has brought about the development of “transliteracy.” Transliteracy can be defined on two levels that address t
From discomorphosis to the digitamorphosis. About the effects of the digital turn on the tastes morphology and the uses of music in the everyday life – MUSIMORPHOSE
To be completed. In process. In process. In process. This project aims at studying the "digital turn", that is, the transition of a cultural realm defined by the presence of physically available media content to a world where digitized media, that is likely to deeply reconfigure our ways of being in
The interface between culture, organism, nature, and society – LICORNES
The topic “nature/culture” is traditionally tackled through two main questions, which are connected to each other despite their own characteristics. The first question is about the foundation of cultural phenomena: to what extent and in what circumstances are biological factors involved in the emerg
Dynamics of spreading of ceramic techniques and style: actualist comparative data and agent-based modelling – DIFFCERAM
In order to fullfill this lack of reference data, the project proposes to build a model based on empirical data which will enable us to interpret processes of diffusion of technical and stylistic ceramic traits in terms of modes of transmission. For this purpose, phenomena of borrowing and non borro