News archive
2025
Naïs Sidney brilliantly defends her thesis on the Alps
March 2025
Congratulations to Naïs Sidney who brilliantly defended his thesis entitled "From site to territory: dynamics of occupation and exploitation of resources in the Northern Alps between the Neolithic and Bronze Ages".
Océane Pollet extracts organic matter from archaeological sediments
February 2025
As part of her thesis and the ecoSCience project, Océane Pollet visited Innovation Fluides Supercritiques in Valence to extract organic matter from archaeological sediments.
Interdisciplinary mission: visit and scientific exchanges at Portel-Ouest
January 2025
Océane Pollet, Lou Spanneut, Thibaut Devièse and Rémi Corbineau travelled to the Pyrenees to visit the Portel-Ouest cave - a first for Océane! While they were there, their discussions with Gaël Becam, the archaeologist in charge of the digs, helped to define the next stages in the interdisciplinary study.
2024
Thibaut Devièse presents metabolomics for radiocarbon dating
December 2024
Thibaut Devièse took part in the annual meeting of the Réseau Francophone pour le Radiocarbone et autres cosmogéniques : Analyse et InterprétatioN (REFRAIN) and presented the metabolomics methods applied to radiocarbon dating.
Kewan Labeau joins CEREGE as a radiocarbon chemistry engineer
November 2024
Kewan Labeau has been recruited as a research engineer in radiocarbon chemistry. He will be responsible for the chemical preparation of bones that will be dated on the AixMICADAS accelerator as part of the ANR NeHos project.
CEREGE brings Quaternary fauna to FDS
October 2024
During the Fête de la Science, in which CEREGE takes part every year, a workshop was organised to present to pupils the research carried out on archaeological material and in particular on Quaternary fauna.
Lou Spanneut presents his results on dental sexing at SMAP
September 2024
CEREGE represented at the conference Mass Spectrometry and Proteomic Analysis (SMAP, Lille). Lou Spanneut presents the initial results of a study on the sexing of faunal teeth, in collaboration with the MSAP (Lille), the LAMPEA (Aix-Marseille) and the EPCC (Tautavel).
Archaeological excavation of the Bossats Palaeolithic site, Ormesson
August 2024
Damien Flas (LAMPEA) and Thibaut Devièse visited the Bossats Palaeolithic site in Ormesson as part of the NeHos project, to meet the excavation team led by Pierre Bodu (UMR Temps) and discuss the site's dating strategy.
Océane Pollet wins an inter-ED grant for her thesis
July 2024
Océane Pollet, a student in the M2 STPE programme, has been awarded one of the 10 inter-ED grants for her thesis project. "CO-MET - From archaeological sediments to meteorites; interdisciplinary study of organic compounds through the development of an innovative metabolomics approach".. Well done to her!
Discussion of FTIR results obtained on archaeological sediment samples
June 2024
As part of the metaMOA project, Océane Pollet and Lou Spanneut made several visits to the IMBE laboratory in Avignon to analyse various archaeological samples using FTIR and pyrolysis-GC-MS and to learn about metabolomics in order to interpret the data.
Longitudinal cutting of a prehistoric reindeer tooth in collaboration with LAMPEA
June 2024
Gwenaëlle Goude and Lou Spanneut are cutting an archaeological reindeer tooth in order to study its dietary evolution on an intra-individual scale. This is the first time that sequential isotope analyses have been carried out on dentine for this species.
Workshop on the study of archaeological organic matter in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
May 2024
On 28 and 29 May, the "Study of Archaeological Organic Matter in the PACA Region" workshop was co-organised by CEREGE, IMBE and CEPAM. It provided an opportunity for members of these laboratories to discuss metabolomic approaches to the study of archaeological organic substances.
CT scan of a prehistoric bear canine tooth on the MATRIX platform
May 2024
Bear canines from the Tournal archaeological site have been measured for the first time on the Matrix platform's CT scan in order to study their internal structure. This will also enable the material to be digitally archived for spectrometric analysis.
Digitising bones with the Spider scanner
April 2024
Lou Spanneut and Océane Pollet presented the research they are carrying out as part of their studies on a variety of archaeological material from different prehistoric sites in France to secondary school students visiting CEREGE for the Spring Science Fair.
AixMICADAS accelerator used for radiocarbon dating
April 2024
As part of their training, students in the Archaeology, Sciences for Archaeology Masters (Bioarchaeology course) visited the AixMICADAS radiocarbon unit at CEREGE to find out about the analytical infrastructure for radiocarbon dating.
Organic substances for mummification in ancient Egypt
February 2024
Barbara Huber has joined CEREGE's Climate team as a post-doctoral researcher under the SALTO agreement between CNRS and the Max Planck Institute. She will be working with Thibaut Devièse on the study of organic substances used for mummification in ancient Egypt.
Study of the Tournal site stratigraphic plans
January 2024
Lou Spanneut went to Tautavel as part of her thesis at the Centre Européen de Recherches Préhistoriques to study the archives of the Palaeolithic sites of Le Portel and Tournal and to sample a new series of bones and teeth from these sites.
2023
7 projects involving CEREGE funded by Arkaia
December 2023
This year, Arkaia has selected for funding 7 projects in which members of CEREGE are project leaders or collaborators. This demonstrates the significant involvement of CEREGE teams in archaeological issues. The list of funded projects is available on the Arkaia website.
Analysis of a residue from El Guettar
October 2023
Océane Laroche, a doctoral student at LAMPEA, came to carry out micro-XRF analyses on the Matrix platform with the help of Perrine Chaurand in order to characterise the coloured residues present on certain lithic tools that she is studying as part of her thesis.
Excavation at the Châtelperron archaeological site
July 2023
As part of the NeHos project (funded by the ANR), Thibaut Devièse visited the Châtelperron archaeological site to meet the excavation team led by Raphaël Angevin and discuss dating issues at this major site in French prehistory.
Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry Day
June 2023
On 26 June 2023, the geoarchaeology and archaeometry transverse axis was launched. The day gave each CEREGE team the opportunity to present an overview of its activities in relation to the theme and to discuss the outlook for the coming years.