Status:Closed

Opening date: 1 September 2023

Closing date: 16 October 2023

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In 2024, the Institute will fund 12-month "Starter" projects worth between €5,000 and €10,000, which will encourage the emergence of new research and the structuring of partner networks with a view to responding to high-level national or Internationally competitive calls for proposals.

Projects must be collaborative, involving the partnership of at least two laboratories belonging to the institute. Other French or foreign teams may also be involved. Only permanent staff from member laboratories may submit projects.

Priority themes

This year, particular attention will be paid to projects that address one of the following issues:

  • Measuring and preventing the vulnerability of archaeological heritage to climatic and anthropogenic threats;
  • Initiate new collaborations in the fields of materials science, motion, computer science and artificial intelligence with, among others, the Institute's "science and technology" laboratories (CINaM, ISM, LIS, LMA, LP3 and MADIREL);
  • Initiate a participatory science approach involving civil society players in the scientific production process.

All other proposals remain eligible and welcome.

Evaluation criteria

  • Quality, ambition and relevance of the project to the Institute's scientific priorities;
  • Interdisciplinary nature of the team;
  • Development of Internationally recognized partnerships, in particular within the CIVIS consortium and with institutions in Mediterranean countries;
  • Planned links with AMU's training programs;
  • Medium-term vision of the project's future, and in particular of the targeted AAP(s);
  • Co-financing (laboratory's own Resources, external funding).

Eligible expenses

  • Only the following operating expenses are eligible: mission expenses for team members and guests, services, internship bonuses, consumables and small equipment (< €800 excl. VAT, except audiovisual equipment for which the threshold is set at €400 excl. VAT);
  • Ineligible are translation and publishing costs, expenses related to the organization of scientific or public events, computer hardware, and all investment and payroll expenses.
     

Calendar

  • Application deadline : 16/10/2023
  • Announcement of results : December 2023
  • Project development : January to December 2024

Application

Application form to be sent to arkaia-contact[at]univ-amu.fr

Contact us

Testimonials

Touatia Amraoui
CNRS Research Fellow - Centre Camille Jullian

Thanks to the "Amorce" scheme, the institute has supported the structuring of a program focused on the Tipasa site. Our work, focusing on the geosciences, is now financed by the Fonds de solidarité pour les projets innovants, in partnership with the French Embassy, the Algerian Centre national de recherche en archéologie and the Centre universitaire de Tipaza.

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Awardees

  • Awardee

    2024
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    ZADIG - Zambratija, dating and engineering

    Project leader(s)
    Giulia Boetto / Frédéric Guibal
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / IMBE
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    ZADIG - Zambratija, dating and engineering

    Project leader(s)
    Giulia Boetto / Frédéric Guibal
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / IMBE

    The wreck of Zambratija (Istria, Croatia) is, to date, the archaeological evidence of the oldest sewn ship in the Mediterranean, without comparison in ancient Adriatic and Mediterranean shipbuilding.

    The ZADIG project aims to combine the skills of the Centre Camille Jullian and the Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale to answer the chronological questions posed by the Zambratija wreck; to test the vulnerability of this archaeological heritage; to experiment with a non-destructive method of acquiring dendrochronological data on waterlogged wood using a resistograph.

    Partner(s):

    • Centro di fisica applicata, datazione e diagnostica (CEDAD - Brindisi, Italy)
    • Center de datation par le radiocarbone (CDRC) of the Archéologie et archéométrie laboratory (ArAr - Lyon)
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2024
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    TRAGENS - The Haut-Argens travertines: hydrological variability and the construction of a socio-hydrosystem from the Upper Pleistocene to the present day

    Project leader(s)
    Hélène Bruneton / Olivier Sivan / Romaric Bardet
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / LAMPEA / CCJ
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    TRAGENS - The Haut-Argens travertines: hydrological variability and the construction of a socio-hydrosystem from the Upper Pleistocene to the present day

    Project leader(s)
    Hélène Bruneton / Olivier Sivan / Romaric Bardet
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / LAMPEA / CCJ

    The project aims to establish a chronological and methodological framework for studying the relationships between societies and water in the upper reaches of the Argens River (Var), in an area exceptional for the chronological longevity and spatial continuity of travertine formations and associated wetlands. It will combine a geomorphological approach, archaeological synthesis and surveys from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, archival studies, characterization of the recording potential of the environmental variability of the travertines using sedimentological, paleoecological, geochemical and isotopic methods, and tests of 14C and U/Th dating methods. In this way, it will seek to reconstruct the interweaving of societal and natural factors in the construction of landscapes, the increasing weight of uses and developments of alluvial bottoms, and the resilience to environmental change of the resulting socio-hydrosystems.

    Partner(s):

    • Laboratoire Temps, espaces, langages, Europe méridionale, Méditerranée (TELEMMe - Aix-en-Provence)
    • Center archéologique du Var (Toulon)
    • Maison régionale de l'eau (Barjols)
    • Syndicat mixte de l'Argens
    • Municipality of Saint-Maximin
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2024
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    SigLitMéd - GIS of medieval coastal settlements in the north-western Mediterranean (8th-12th c.)

    Project leader(s)
    André Constant / Paul François / Claude Vella / Jules Fleury
    Laboratory(s)
    LA3M / CEREGE
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    SigLitMéd - GIS of medieval coastal settlements in the north-western Mediterranean (8th-12th c.)

    Project leader(s)
    André Constant / Paul François / Claude Vella / Jules Fleury
    Laboratory(s)
    LA3M / CEREGE

    As part of the SyLitMéd program coordinated by LA3M, the SigLitMéd project aims to develop a team tool for recording and producing cartographic data at different scales, and to strengthen interdisciplinary cross-disciplinary approaches to the "historical geography" of medieval coastal areas in the north-western Mediterranean in the 8th-12th centuries. This tool will take the form of a geographic database (GIS)
    based on the open-source QGIS software and accessible to all SyLitMed program participants.

    The project will involve the compilation of historiographic data (coastal paleoenvironments, cartographic, cadastral, archaeological and historical sources). The operation of the GIS prototype will be tested in two privileged survey windows in Provence (Gulf of Fos / Martigues) and Roussillon (Argelès-sur-Mer / Collioure coastal area).

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2024
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    NOFUN - Non-funerary questions: archaeology, anthropology, history

    Project leader(s)
    Reine-Marie Bérard / Elisabeth Anstett
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / ADES
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    NOFUN - Non-funerary questions: archaeology, anthropology, history

    Project leader(s)
    Reine-Marie Bérard / Elisabeth Anstett
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / ADES

    The ambition of the NOFUN project is to bring together an interdisciplinary team to consider the causes, modalities and archaeological manifestations of non-funerary treatments of the deceased, by studying on the one hand those deceased who did not benefit from funerary rites, and on the other those who benefited from funerals but whose remains were the subject of positive or negative post-funerary treatments - two types of situation that risk being confused in an archaeological context.

    It comprises five problematic axes that question the articulation between the treatment of the corpse and the consideration given to individuals: 1. non-funerary deposits within funerary ensembles; 2. rituals for transforming a non-funerary burial site into a sepulchre; 3. delayed funerary calendars; 4. Funeral treatment in the absence of a body; 5. Post-funeral treatments. The aim here is to mobilize all the criteria and methods developed by archaeothanatology, which will be confronted with historical and anthropological sources to propose new interpretative reading keys. Eventually, an ANR project will be submitted.

    Partner(s):

    • Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (French national institute for preventive archaeological research)
    • Laboratoire d'archéologie médiévale et moderne en Méditerranée (LA3M - Aix-en-Provence, France)
    • Archaeology of Mediterranean Societies Laboratory (ASM - Montpellier)
    • Laboratoire De la Préhistoire à l'actuel : culture, environnement et anthropologie (PACEA - Bordeaux)
    • Interdisciplinary Research Center for Human and Social Sciences (CRISES - Montpellier)
    See the associated call for project