Awardees

The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to apply a cross-archaeological, geomorphological, geochemical, archaeo-palynological and paleoceanological approach in order to characterize the environmental contexts that have affected ́ the evolution of the Roman ports in the Venetian lagoon (Torcello, Lio Piccolo, Altinum sector) for ca. 3000 years to reveal the main stages in the history of the lagoon's ports and channels. The focus will be on understanding the drivers of change, in particular (i) the evolution of floodplain and lagoon wetlands through geochemical, palynological and bio-sedimentological (microfauna) analysis; (ii) fluvial and littoral constraints (cf. accessibility to the sea, catastrophic floods, sedimentary budget and crises, vulnerabilities etc.), which have led to silting of port basins and progressive clogging of lagoon margins, and provoked abrupt changes; (iii) the impacts of human actions (direct such as engineering works, channelization at Lio Piccolo, and dredging, metal pollution revealed by stable isotopes of lead and trace metals, or indirect impacts such as forest clearance). Understanding the environmental and anthropogenic factors in the evolution of the ports of Lio Piccolo and Torcello will constitute an essential scientific advance for a better understanding of the co-construction processes of Venice's lagoon landscapes, as well as the ecological and hydrological trajectory of the ports in terms of accessibility and navigabilitý in the North Adriatic. The highlight is the possibility of core sampling in 2023 in the Piazza San Marco under the auspices of the Archaeological Superintendence of Venice.

Partners:

• Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO - Marseille)
• Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES - Toulouse)
• Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy)
• Università di Bologna (Italy)
• Università di Pisa (Italy)

Our project will involve close collaboration, exchanges and discussions between experts in ecological modeling methods and experts in "archaeological material", in order to achieve real collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the field of the disappearance of Neanderthal man and the assertion of modern man in Europe. We anticipate the active participation of an M2 student from the University of Parma, who will come to the LAMPEA premises and be the pivotal figure in setting up the first stage of this Research by applying methods specific to current ecology to archaeological data. A second part of the project concerns the creation of an exchange network between experts.

Partner(s):

• Università degli studi di Parma

The project follows on from the study of the church and site of Abu Gosh carried out by the same team between 2016 and 2021. A revision of the restoration archives, a new digital survey (tacheometry & photogrammetry), an archaeological study of the elevations and a metrological analysis will form the starting point for a comparative study of the church with that of Abu Gosh, to which it is often compared despite the notable differences in its design and construction. The aim is to provide new keys for reading and analyzing Frankish religious architecture in the Near East, particularly in the 12th century.

Partner(s):

• French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ)

The project revolves around the valorization of the excavations we carried out in Pompeii in two potters' workshops that were in operation at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius at the end of the 1st century A.D. This field research enabled us to reconstruct the entire chain of operations involved in the potter's work, from the identification of the clay extraction quarries to the distribution of the finished product. The excavations were accompanied not only by archival research, analysis of iconography depicting the work of the potters, study of the vases and chemical analysis, but also by an experimental archaeology trial involving the reconstruction to scale of one of the potter's wheels in the Pompeian workshop.

The virtual tour will be accompanied by an excavation workshop for a Pompeian potter's wheel: a digging trough - already available - that reproduces the remains we discovered on site. Depending on the event, the workshop activity can also be developed with the presence of a potter who offers an introduction to vase turning (with her electric lathes) for each participant.

The aim of this project is to carry out geophysical surveys (electrical resistivity, magnetism and ground radar) in the archaeological complex of the Porta Marina Forum in order to detect the presence of earlier structures that could document the early phases of occupation of the coastal sector of the city of Ostia outside the Late-Republican enclosure.

It is part of a wider project of geophysical prospecting and study of the maritime quarter of the city of Ostia, carried out by CCJ and CEREGE, which began in 2018 and is currently underway.

Partner(s):

• Laboratoire Géosciences Paris Sud (GEOPS - Paris)

Part of the archaeological operations conducted by the Centre Camille Jullian since 2019 on the submerged littoral remains of the Olbia-de-Provence site located at the western root of the double tombolo of Giens (Hyères, France), this interdisciplinary project is being carried out jointly with geomorphologists and sedimentologists from CEREGE.

It consists of a campaign to sample and analyze sedimentary cores from one of the landscape features that adjoins one of the structures (ensemble 1) of the submerged littoral remains of the Olbia colony, midway along its length to the west. This is an "indurated barrier beach", uncovered in the late 2000s, lying between -3 m and -0.20 m depth.

The FCGM project, funded by the Institut d'archéologie méditerranéenne in 2020, has enabled us to establish fruitful collaborations and a large corpus on the scale of Gaul, Spain and Italy concerning the quarries of origin of granite shafts used in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. While the Narbonnaise region accounts for 100% of casks imported from the shores of the Mediterranean (Egypt, Turkey, western Mediterranean islands), this is no longer the case as we move further north or west: other (probably) local sources have been identified in Betica, Lyon, Javols, Trier, Aachen and probably Prague. The aim is to better characterize these sources and to reflect, in the light of historical documents, on the circumstances and motivations that led to the choice of local or imported sources, particularly in the Middle Ages, when most of the columns in the northern corpus were implemented.

We propose to characterize and differentiate in a semi-quantitative (statistical) way the ancient building materials of the Orange theater or part of it, according to their facies (lithology, granulometry, structure, fossils...), their quality (induration, anisotropy...) and their age, by studying them on site and in identified or presumed extraction sites in the vicinity. Sampling will be carried out in the field. It will complement the existing collection of rocks and thin sections used for the study. We will also seek to refine the stratigraphic provenance and outcrop availability of building stones, and thereby better understand the choice of regional materials and their use in the theater.

Partner(s):

• Interdisciplinary Center for Heritage Conservation and Restoration (CICRP - Marseille)

This project focuses on the mechanical and acoustic characterization of archaeo-paleontological bone samples. There is an extensive literature on the identification of the physical properties of different elements and portions of recent human or animal bones. The aim of the project is to adapt and test new ultrasonic methods to modern and fossil bone samples, and to propose a protocol for measuring physical properties such as moduli of elasticity, micro-hardness or density.

Partner(s):

• Laboratoire Cultures et environnements : Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages (CEPAM - Nice)
• Dracénie Provence Verdon agglomération - Archaeology and Heritage Unit (Draguignan)

The RESTARCHI project aims to restore a seaside villa and a large amphora workshop in their coastal environment (Santa Marina and Loron sites in Croatia, Istria), based on the combined use of planimetry, surveys and photogrammetry of the buildings and the processing of a LiDAR survey. The project will contribute to finalizing the architectural study (model and 3D view). Restitution of the environment will be based on the results of Research in spatial analysis and archaeobotany. Finally, the CCJ-IRAA partnership will develop a collaboration with EDIKOM, a private company specializing in the creation of digital media, to produce a digital 3D visualization of the workshop and villa within an area that in ancient times corresponded to a large imperial seaside estate.

Partners:

• EDIKOM (Aix-en-Provence)
• IntelEspace platform (Clermont-Ferrand)
• Center for Research and Teaching in Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE - Aix-en-Provence)