Founded in 1997 to encourage French-speaking archaeological research abroad, the Clio Prize for Archaeology is awarded each year by an independent jury of academics. The 2nd Prix 2024 was awarded to the ISTRIE mission in Croatia, led by Corinne Rousse, Professor of Archaeology at Aix Marseille Université and Deputy Director of the Centre Camille Jullian.
The ISTRIE mission is supported by the Centre Camille Jullian of Aix Marseille Université and the CNRS, in conjunction with the Museum of the Territory of Poreč(Zavičajni muzej Poreštine) in Croatia. She is studying a large Roman maritime estate on the territory of the Poreč colony - Parentium and its villa, which belonged to powerful aristocrats from Rome, then to emperors. The Clio Prize endowment will fund archaeobotanical analyses and radiocarbon dating for Late Antique contexts, shedding light on the final phases of occupation of the site and mutations in the rural landscape in the 4th and 5th centuries AD.
The ISTRIE mission is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the École française de Rome. Thanks to multidisciplinary excavations and studies, involving French, Croatian and Italian partners, including several members of the Centre Camille Jullian, it is contributing to leading international research in the northern Adriatic.
The entire team at the Institut d'archéologie méditerranéenne extends its warmest congratulations to Corinne Rousse and all the team and partners involved in the mission.
