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environmental geosciences
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environmental geosciences

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2025

Naïs Sidney brilliantly defends her thesis on the Alps

Mars 2025

Félicitations à Naïs Sidney qui a brillamment soutenu sa thèse intitulée « Du site au territoire : dynamiques d’occupation et d’exploitation des ressources dans les Alpes du Nord entre le Néolithique et l’âge du Bronze ».

Océane Pollet extracts organic matter from archaeological sediments

Février 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.

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Interdisciplinary mission: visit and scientific exchanges at Portel-Ouest

Janvier 2025

Océane Pollet, Lou Spanneut, Thibaut Devièse et Rémi Corbineau se sont rendus dans les Pyrénées pour visiter la grotte du Portel-Ouest ; une première pour Océane ! Sur place, leurs échanges avec Gaël Becam, archéologue en charge des fouilles, ont permis de définir les prochaines étapes de l’étude interdisciplinaire.

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2024

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Thibaut Devièse presents metabolomics for radiocarbon dating

Décembre 2024

Thibaut Devièse participe à la réunion annuelle du Réseau Francophone pour le Radiocarbone et autres cosmogéniques : Analyse et InterprétatioN (REFRAIN) et présente les méthodes de métabolomique appliquées à la datation au radiocarbone.

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Kewan Labeau joins CEREGE as a radiocarbon chemistry engineer

Novembre 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.

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Le CEREGE fait découvrir les faunes du Quaternaire à la FDS

Octobre 2024

Lors de la fête de la science, à laquelle participe le CEREGE tous les ans, un atelier a été organisé afin de présenter aux élèves les recherches menées sur du matériel archéologique et en particulier sur les faunes du Quaternaire.

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Lou Spanneut présente ses résultats sur le sexage dentaire à SMAP

Septembre 2024

Le CEREGE représenté lors de la conférence Mass Spectrometry and Proteomic Analysis (SMAP, Lille). Lou Spanneut y présente les premiers résultats d’une étude sur le sexage de dents de faune, en collaboration avec le MSAP (Lille), le LAMPEA (Aix-Marseille) et l’EPCC (Tautavel).

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Archaeological excavation of the Bossats Palaeolithic site, Ormesson

Archaeological excavation of the Bossats Palaeolithic site, Ormesson

Août 2024

Damien Flas (LAMPEA) et Thibaut Devièse se sont rendus sur le gisement Paléolithique des Bossats, Ormesson dans le cadre du projet NeHos afin de rencontrer l’équipe de fouille dirigée par Pierre Bodu (UMR Temps) et de discuter de la stratégie de datation du site.

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Océane Pollet obtient une bourse inter-ED pour sa thèse

Juillet 2024, TD

Océane Pollet, étudiante du M2 STPE, a obtenu une des 10 bourses inter-ED pour le projet de thèse « CO-MET – Des sédiments archéologiques aux météorites ; étude interdisciplinaire des composés organiques grâce au développement d’une approche métabolomique novatrice ». Bravo à elle ! 

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Discussion of FTIR results obtained on archaeological sediment samples

Discussion of FTIR results obtained on archaeological sediment samples

Juin 2024, TD

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. 

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Longitudinal cutting of a prehistoric reindeer tooth in collaboration with LAMPEA

Longitudinal cutting of a prehistoric reindeer tooth in collaboration with LAMPEA

Juin 2024

Gwenaëlle Goude et Lou Spanneut procèdent à la découpe d’une dent archéologique de renne afin d’étudier son évolution alimentaire à échelle intra-individuelle. C’est la première fois que des analyses isotopiques en séquentiel seront menées sur dentine pour cette espèce

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Workshop on the study of archaeological organic matter in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

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.

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CT scan of a prehistoric bear canine tooth on the MATRIX platform

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.

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Scanning bones with the Spider scanner

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.

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AixMICADAS accelerator used for radiocarbon dating

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.

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Organic substances for mummification in ancient Egypt

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.

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Study of the Tournal site stratigraphic plans

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.

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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.

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Analysis of a residue from El Guettar

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.

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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.

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Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry Day

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.

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