Joint Research Unit
Cultures et Environnement, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge (CEPAM)
- Address :
- Pôle universitaire Saint-Jean-d’Angély 3
24 avenue des Diables Bleus
06357 Nice Cedex 4 - Phone :
- 04 89 15 24 08
- Email :
- anne-marie.gomez@univ-cotedazur.fr
- On the Internet :
- https://www.cepam.cnrs.fr
- Additional contact details :
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General information
Affiliated institutions :Université Côte d'Azur
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Reference : UMR7264
Departments : DS 6 : Sciences de l'homme et des humanités
Organization
Director(s) :- Lionel Gourichon (Directeur)
- Stephanie Le-Briz (Directrice adjointe)
- Elisa Nicoud (Directrice adjointe)
Staff
- Technical systems, Ethnoarchaeology and Prehistory (Step), Elisa Nicoud, Head;
- Dynamics of Populations and Landscapes (Dynapp), Laurence Mercuri, Head;
- Management of Natural Resources, Environments and Societies (Grenes), Claire Delhon, Head;
- Images, Texts & Monuments (IT&M), Rosa Maria Dessì, Head.
- Dynamics of Populations and Landscapes (Dynapp), Laurence Mercuri, Head;
- Management of Natural Resources, Environments and Societies (Grenes), Claire Delhon, Head;
- Images, Texts & Monuments (IT&M), Rosa Maria Dessì, Head.
Equipments
• Specialized technical platforms: data acquisition, management and dissemination; experimentation, dating and characterization of archaeomaterials. Research is based on a suite of optical microscopes, two thermal & archaeochemical treatment platforms, cementochronology equipment and organic and sedimentary sample processing laboratories
• Reference collections: archaeobotany, archaeozoology, traceology, ethnoarchaeology, biological anthropology, and specialized material libraries
• A Research library, specializing in the laboratory's fields of investigation. The document collection includes 15,000 works, 15,000 offprints and extracts, 350 journal titles
• Reference collections: archaeobotany, archaeozoology, traceology, ethnoarchaeology, biological anthropology, and specialized material libraries
• A Research library, specializing in the laboratory's fields of investigation. The document collection includes 15,000 works, 15,000 offprints and extracts, 350 journal titles
Partnerships
International relations
CEPAM is the leader of numerous core university projects (ANR; IPEV; IDEX; GDRI; GDR); it also works in close relation with the French Ministry of Culture and Communication Regional Archaeology Service and with other organizations such as Inrap (National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research) and INED (National Institute for Demographic Studies). At the international level, there are many collaborations, joint supervision of theses, partnerships with several universities in Italy, Spain, Russia, EU, Ethiopia, and so on. CEPAM also plays an important role in archaeological missions abroad financed by the MAEE. The strong regional roots are reflected in agreements with numerous local authorities (City of Nice, City of Fréjus, City of Marseille, and the General Councils of the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var).
Key figures
Created in 2000, by the start of the 2017 school year the unit had a total of 91 members distributed as follows:
• 16 CNRS (7 senior researchers including 3 emeritus, 9 researchers)
• 18 lecturers (5 professors and 13 associate professors)
• 2 CHU (1 associate professor, 1 professor)
• 1 researcher from INED,
• 10 staff from Inrap,
• 5 staff from local authorities,
• 10 CNRS administrative officers and technicians (1 research officer, 5 education officers, 3 administrative officers, 1 technician), 2 Université Côte d'Azur BIATSS (2 education officers),
• 26 PhD students, 1 Postdoc.
• 16 CNRS (7 senior researchers including 3 emeritus, 9 researchers)
• 18 lecturers (5 professors and 13 associate professors)
• 2 CHU (1 associate professor, 1 professor)
• 1 researcher from INED,
• 10 staff from Inrap,
• 5 staff from local authorities,
• 10 CNRS administrative officers and technicians (1 research officer, 5 education officers, 3 administrative officers, 1 technician), 2 Université Côte d'Azur BIATSS (2 education officers),
• 26 PhD students, 1 Postdoc.
Additional information
Archeology
History
Paleo-environments
Archeo-chemistry
Social and regional dynamics
Ideologies and images
History
Paleo-environments
Archeo-chemistry
Social and regional dynamics
Ideologies and images
CEPAM is a highly interdisciplinary laboratory which develops diachronic research on past societies, their modes of operation, their evolution and their relationship to the environment from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. The unit is attached primarily to the Ecology and Environment Institute (INEE) of CNRS and secondarily to the CNRS Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) and brings together researchers and faculty from sections 31 and 32 of CNRS and sections 8, 20 and 21 of the National Council of Universities (CNU). The work is based on the consideration of a great diversity of sources and complementary archives, both biological and cultural: lithic and bone tools, ceramics, adornments, colorants; human remains; phytoliths, charcoals, pollen, animal bones, organic archaeomaterials; texts, monuments and iconographic documents. Two master's courses are associated with CEPAM (“History and Archeology of Ancient and Medieval Worlds” and “Prehistory, Paleoenvironment and Archeosciences”).