Actualités du GMPCA et de l'archéométrie

Cereals were the backbone of Neolithic agriculture in Europe, but their relative contribution to regional culinary practices is a matter of debate. Ceramic vessels are the most widely available cultural archives for addressing the importance of cereals in early food production systems. However ...

Prehistoric cooking technologies have tended to focus on chemical analysis of ceramics. Without considering other artefacts involved in food preparation this may lead to a biased understanding of prehistoric diets. This project will focus on the combined chemical and morphological analysis of ...

Microwear analysis is well established in archaeological scientific research and has been applied to a range of prehistoric stone artefacts. In comparison, chemical and molecular analyses of ground stone tools are far less established, with doubts regarding the preservation of organic molecules ...

Thick charred and semi-charred surface deposits can often be found adhering to the inside of ceramic vessels as past remnants of food processing. Organic analysis of many hundreds of such ‘foodcrust’ samples has shown excellent preservation of lipids and unusually high amounts of nitrogenous ...

Birch bark tar has been used as adhesive as far back as the Middle Pleistocene but was commonly used by Holocene (Mesolithic) hunter-gatherers. Small lumps of this substance have been recovered from several Mesolithic archaeological sites in Europe and while their use is still debated, they often ...

The identification of proteinaceous material associated with archaeological ceramics offers much greater resolution in determining vessel contents than lipid based approaches. Their routine analysis would provide an essential tool for understanding the development of early agricultural economies ...

Wooden artefacts from prehistoric sites provide a wealth of information, including on early woodworking technologies and woodland management practices. Wood, however, does not survive well in the archaeological record, with recovery often only possible in waterlogged deposits or arid conditions ...

Sujet Datation par la méthode du radiocarbone de pigments et peintures anciennes à base de blanc de plomb
Date mardi 17 novembre 2020 à 14h30
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Résumé
La datation par la méthode du radiocarbone fait partie des méthodes d’analyse utilisées en ...

The McDonald Institute invites applications for a full-time 30 months Research Assistant/Associate to work on the ERC-funded project "ENCOUNTER: Demography, Cultural change, and the Diffusion of Rice and Millet during the Jomon-Yayoi transition in prehistoric Japan". Applicants must have a PhD ...

Developing Machine learning tools to date Viking genomes and identify protective genes in plants. Candidates are expected to have an interest in biology, human history and plants alongside strong computational skills with background in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, and/or a ...

Dans le cadre du projet européen Polifonia: a digital harmoniser for musical heritage knowledge, l'IReMus recrute un.e postdoctorant.e sur une durée de 12 mois à temps plein à compter du premier trimestre 2021. Le projet porte sur le développement, l'application et la mise à disposition d'outils ...

“Feed the Birds… Don’t Feed the Animals” is a major research project that will investigate why people feed wild and captive animals, and also the impact that human feeding has on the health and welfare of those animals. The University of Reading is a key partner in “Feed the Birds… Don’t Feed the ...