Pascaline Gaussein

The 2026 edition of the Funerary Archaeology Seminar consists of 6 sessions during which our speakers will explore the placement of the dead, their movements and transformations, the purpose of these practices, and their symbolic, technical, and ethical components through current archaeological case studies.

Program for this introductory session:

• Fanny Bocquentin (CNRS, UMR8068 TEMPS – Technology and Ethnology of Prehistoric Worlds, Nanterre), Philippe Chambon (CNRS, UMR7206 Eco-Anthropology, ABBA – Biological Anthropology and Bio-Archaeology team, Paris), Grégory Pereira (CNRS, UMR8096, Archaeology of the Americas, Paris): Introduction to the seminar theme.

• Clémence Glas (UMR8068, TEMPS): Manipulation of the dead and mortuary operational sequences among the last hunter-gatherers of northern France and Belgium.

Seminars are open to all, subject to availability.