This project aims to study the evolution of practices and populations facing death in antiquity on an international scale (from the Metal Ages to the Greco-Roman contexts):
- Relationship between land occupation and the framework/land law and the installation of funerary occupationsExpression of
- social identity in deathPlurality of
- cultures and communities in the perception of death, the body and
- burialTerritorial
- reorganizations
- and funerary practicesRelations
- between categories of the population in the expression of funerary
- practicesPopulations: constitutions, evolution, pluralities.
Beyond the diachronic framework, it is an extended geographical context that will be taken into account (from the British Isles to the Eastern doors, and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean), and which will allow us to apprehend the variations and pluralities of situations according to the zone/culture studied (the whole of the Celtic arc as well as Greek and Roman contexts).
From 2023 onwards, it will follow on from the MorAnt start-up project, supported by the ARKAIA Institute (2020-2022). Collaborations are already in place with institutions and researchers in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Greece, Italy, Romania and Egypt. In addition, it includes a teaching component that aims to disseminate the methods and best practices of archaeothanatology, particularly in the field, and which follows on from the project The archaeology of Death, supported by the CIVIS alliance, involving 11 European universities.