Status:Closed

Opening date: 1 September 2023

Closing date: 16 October 2023

Interdisciplinary action

In 2024, 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 : 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

Awardees

  • Awardee

    2024
    Interdisciplinary action

    ROCPPERTUS - Research into the origin of protohistoric Provençal limestone: extraction, technique, sculptural use

    Project leader(s)
    François Fournier / Hélène Aurigny
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / CCJ
    Interdisciplinary action

    ROCPPERTUS - Research into the origin of protohistoric Provençal limestone: extraction, technique, sculptural use

    Project leader(s)
    François Fournier / Hélène Aurigny
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / CCJ

    The aim of the project is to carry out an integrated study (micropalaeontology, facies analysis, diagenesis, geochemistry) of the limestones of protohistoric sculptures from the Roquepertuse and La Cloche oppidums (Musée d'Histoire de Marseille). Samples will be taken from the works themselves, as well as from similar outcropping limestones, for microscopic thin sections and isotopic measurements (carbon and oxygen). Petrographic analysis of the thin sections and fieldwork will be carried out as part of an M1 STPE research internship. The aim is 1) to identify extraction sites and material supply circuits, 2) to understand the criteria that led to the choice of materials and 3) to identify robust limestone characterization criteria to help in the reconstruction of sculptures and the search for substitute materials.

    Partner(s):

    • Musée d'histoire de Marseille
    • Interdisciplinary Center for Heritage Conservation and Restoration (CICRP - Marseille)
    • Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence)
    • PACA Regional Archaeology Service
    • Center des monuments nationaux
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2024
    Interdisciplinary action

    Metal seals at Delphi and Delos

    Project leader(s)
    Stéphanie Zugmeyer / Alain Veron / Olivier Grauby
    Laboratory(s)
    IRAA / CEREGE / CINAM
    Interdisciplinary action

    Metal seals at Delphi and Delos

    Project leader(s)
    Stéphanie Zugmeyer / Alain Veron / Olivier Grauby
    Laboratory(s)
    IRAA / CEREGE / CINAM

    Metal seals are characteristic elements of public architecture in ancient Greece. The aim of this project is to set up a research teams bringing together archaeologists, architects and metal scientists to develop a methodology for analyzing these artifacts still in place at archaeological sites, particularly Delphi and Delos.

    The ultimate aim, as part of a wider project, will be to provide information on the composition, strength and origin of the metal used in these staples, in relation to the archaeological data available for the buildings studied. This research will help complete a chrono-typological inventory of sealings in the architecture of these two sites.

    Partner(s):

    • Musée du Louvre (Paris)
    • École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Strasbourg (France)
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2024
    Interdisciplinary action

    Archaeology of medieval manuscripts (paleographic, codicological and physico-chemical studies)

    Project leader(s)
    Florence Boulc'h / Valérie Gontero-Lauze / Élodie Burle-Errecade
    Laboratory(s)
    MADIREL / CIELAM
    Interdisciplinary action

    Archaeology of medieval manuscripts (paleographic, codicological and physico-chemical studies)

    Project leader(s)
    Florence Boulc'h / Valérie Gontero-Lauze / Élodie Burle-Errecade
    Laboratory(s)
    MADIREL / CIELAM

    This project will consist of an analysis mission at the Rennes library. The aim will be to begin characterizing a richly illuminated manuscript from the late 15th century, based on paleographic, codicological and physico-chemical studies. This work would thus enrich the corpus we have studied to date.

    Our Research is based on a global approach to the manuscript, which is studied as a historical witness, a textual support and a material object. In this way, we aim to shed new light on the organization of Parisian illuminators' workshops in the second half of the 15th century. Such an approach requires close interdisciplinary collaboration between the humanities and materials sciences, i.e. between medievalists and chemists.

    Partner(s):

    • Interdisciplinary Center for Heritage Conservation and Restoration (CICRP - Marseille)
    • Laboratory of Molecular and Structural Archaeology (LAMS - Paris)
    • Néel Institute (Grenoble)
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2024
    Interdisciplinary action

    APIMED - Traditional beekeeping in the ancient and medieval Mediterranean

    Project leader(s)
    Emmanuel Botte / Morteza Djamali
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / IMBE
    Interdisciplinary action

    APIMED - Traditional beekeeping in the ancient and medieval Mediterranean

    Project leader(s)
    Emmanuel Botte / Morteza Djamali
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / IMBE

    The project aims to bring together a team of historians, archaeologists, palynologists and chemists to work on traditional beekeeping in the Mediterranean over the long term, and mainly in the ancient and medieval periods. By combining field, archival and laboratory research on the practice of beekeeping in terracotta hives, the aim is to be able to set up protocols that will enable us to work on the environment in which this beekeeping was practiced.

    Partner(s):

    • Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM - Aix-en-Provence)
    See the associated call for project