Status:Closed

Opening date: 15 April 2020

Closing date: 31 May 2020

Interdisciplinary action

In 2020, the institute will fund several "interdisciplinary actions" worth between €1,000 and €2,000. This scheme will support clearly identified, time-bound scientific actions carried out in the field, in the laboratory or in archives. It will aim to encourage synergies and promote the skills and equipment of teams within the institute.

Projects must be collaborative, and involve the participation of at least two of the institute's member laboratories. Only permanent staff are eligible.

Examples of eligible actions

Sampling and analysis, field surveys, prospecting, laboratory experimentation, digitization or analysis of archival documents using new processes. Archaeological excavation is not eligible as such, but the action can take place during an excavation operation.

Evaluation criteria

  • Experimental and inventive nature of the project, as part of a broader research program in line with the Institute's scientific priorities;
  • Use and development of the skills and equipment of the Institute's member laboratories;
  • Articulation with training: participation of student trainees from Aix-Marseille Université or from partner institutions (primarily from the CIVIS consortium or Mediterranean universities), linking the project to a teaching unit... ;
  • Co-financing (laboratories' own resources, external funding).

Eligible expenses

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

Calendar

  • Application deadline : May 31, 2020
  • Announcement of results : June 2020
  • Project schedule : July 2020 to June 2021

Application

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

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Awardees

  • Awardee

    2020
    Interdisciplinary action

    Mas des Caves - Analysis of organic remains from a major Middle Pleistocene deposit at Lunel-Viel (Hérault)

    Project leader(s)
    Jean-Philip Brugal / Doris Barboni
    Laboratory(s)
    LAMPEA / CEREGE
    Interdisciplinary action

    Mas des Caves - Analysis of organic remains from a major Middle Pleistocene deposit at Lunel-Viel (Hérault)

    Project leader(s)
    Jean-Philip Brugal / Doris Barboni
    Laboratory(s)
    LAMPEA / CEREGE
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2020
    Interdisciplinary action

    The Gallic sites of Tamaris and Arquet mark the erosion of Holocene cliffs on the Côte Bleue

    Project leader(s)
    Delphine Isoardi / Claude Vella
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / CEREGE
    Interdisciplinary action

    The Gallic sites of Tamaris and Arquet mark the erosion of Holocene cliffs on the Côte Bleue

    Project leader(s)
    Delphine Isoardi / Claude Vella
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / CEREGE

    Archaeological data from excavations at Cap des Tamaris and Cap de l'Arquet have enabled us to reconstruct precise plans of Gallic villages perched atop these cliffs. Ancient and recent archaeological data indicate that the cliffs at Cap de l'Arquet were ablated by between 2 and 6 metres in 2600 years. These values are 2 to 3 times higher than the erosion rates calculated in J. Giuliano's thesis (2015). However, he proposes two different methodological approaches, on two time scales, one centennial using image processing, the other millennial using cosmonuclide (36Cl) surface denudation dating. Both methods produce the same maximum average erosion rate (1mm.yr-1). However, these values are not compatible with archaeological data. We propose to integrate archaeological data into the consideration of cliff erosion rates. But also to integrate underwater morphology and recent Holocene variations in sea level into the understanding of erosion mechanisms.

    Partner(s):

    • Martigues Archaeological Department
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2020
    Interdisciplinary action

    CHARBACAME - Soil-anthracological and archaeological approaches to the environment of a mid-mountain burial site (Thorame, Haut-Verdon)

    Project leader(s)
    Brigitte Talon / Carine Cenzon-Salvayre / Alexia Lattard / Florence Mocci
    Laboratory(s)
    IMBE / CCJ
    Interdisciplinary action

    CHARBACAME - Soil-anthracological and archaeological approaches to the environment of a mid-mountain burial site (Thorame, Haut-Verdon)

    Project leader(s)
    Brigitte Talon / Carine Cenzon-Salvayre / Alexia Lattard / Florence Mocci
    Laboratory(s)
    IMBE / CCJ

    This interdisciplinary project is part of a programmed archaeological operation on an ancient burial site in the mountains of Val d'Allos (04). The aim is to carry out pedoanthracological sampling outside the archaeological context, in order to supplement the paleoenvironmental data provided by the analysis of charcoal collected in the archaeological context. Pedoanthracology applies to wood charcoal buried naturally in soils following vegetation fires of natural or anthropogenic origin. The high spatial resolution of these data makes it possible to reconstruct the vegetation environment around archaeological sites. The comparison of anthracological, archaeological and historical data on the same site enables us to refine our knowledge of the surrounding vegetation and the consequences of human activities on its evolution over the last millennia (structural, specific and functional biodiversity).

    See the associated call for project