Status:Closed

Opening date: 1 September 2021

Closing date: 15 October 2021

Interdisciplinary action

In 2022, 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 : 15/10/2021
  • Announcement of results : December 2021
  • Project development : January to December 2022

Application

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

Contact us

Awardees

  • Awardee

    2022
    Interdisciplinary action

    Geophysical surveys of the Porta Marina Forum (Ancient Ostia, Italy)

    Project leader(s)
    Minoru Uehara / Pierre-Etienne Mathé / Sophie Bouffier / Marcello Turci
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / CCJ
    Interdisciplinary action

    Geophysical surveys of the Porta Marina Forum (Ancient Ostia, Italy)

    Project leader(s)
    Minoru Uehara / Pierre-Etienne Mathé / Sophie Bouffier / Marcello Turci
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / CCJ

    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)
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2022
    Interdisciplinary action

    Olbia-de-Provence, submerged structures: sediment coring operation on the indurated barrier beach

    Project leader(s)
    Laurent Borel / Alex Sabastia / Christophe Morhange
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / CEREGE
    Interdisciplinary action

    Olbia-de-Provence, submerged structures: sediment coring operation on the indurated barrier beach

    Project leader(s)
    Laurent Borel / Alex Sabastia / Christophe Morhange
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / CEREGE

    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.

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2022
    Interdisciplinary action

    Granite drums north of the Mediterranean: local sources versus Mediterranean imports in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    Project leader(s)
    Pierre Rochette / Andreas Hartmann-Virnich
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / LA3M
    Interdisciplinary action

    Granite drums north of the Mediterranean: local sources versus Mediterranean imports in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    Project leader(s)
    Pierre Rochette / Andreas Hartmann-Virnich
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / LA3M

    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.

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2022
    Interdisciplinary action

    Petrographic and stratigraphic characterization of the limestone used in the construction of the Orange Theatre, in the light of known or potential sources of extraction.

    Project leader(s)
    Gilles Conesa / Alain Badie
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / IRAA
    Interdisciplinary action

    Petrographic and stratigraphic characterization of the limestone used in the construction of the Orange Theatre, in the light of known or potential sources of extraction.

    Project leader(s)
    Gilles Conesa / Alain Badie
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / IRAA

    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)
    See the associated call for project