This week, I had the pleasure of being invited to the Louvre to present the archaeological program "Riad - Urban Gardens of Medieval Morocco". This program, carried out in collaboration with INSAP, highlighted the evolution of the gardens of the Aghmat palace complex during the Middle Ages.

The Romans commonly ate shellfish from Mediterranean lagoons. But how can we unveil supply networks using archaeology? A new study by my colleague Cyprien Mureau introduces a new method to do so and the results are fascinating: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

#StandupforScience Montpellier

Nicolas Bierne@couplingdmi.bsky.social · last yr.

A lot of people in the city center of Montpellier to support our US friends for #StandForScience

Scientists from the University of Montpellier are standing up for science and academic freedom. #StandUpForScience2025 @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social

Demain 7 mars à 18h place de la comédie à Montpellier ! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Retrouvez moi dimanche 23 mars au Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier ! Comment l'archéobotanique permet d'étudier l'agriculture et les forêts passées ? Je vous dirai tout !

🌴 Explore the history of the date palm with #DateBack! 🔎 The first open-access platform for archaeobotanical remains of Phoenix in Asia (Prehistory to Late Antiquity) 📜 140 entries, 99 sites 🌍 Explore: cloudapps.france-bioinformatique.fr/dateback 📖 Read the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · last yr.

DateBack, a digital open access repository of archaeobotanical data for reconstructing date palm history https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.21.639487v1

Call for contributions 📢 Working on the medieval Muslim world using bioarchaeological approaches? Come and propose a talk to the session #249, organised by the ERC project MEDGREENREV in the frame of the next congress of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social

JOB OFFER 💥 The EPHE recruits a senior lecturer in Tropical Palaeoecology. Call ends on March the 11th. The candidate will be recruited at @isemevol.bsky.social (Montpellier, France) and start in October. More info in the attached documents. Do not hesitate to share !

[🧵 Rappel Kits de démarrage] Puisque vous êtes un petit nombre à migrer aujourd'hui, quelques kits de démarrage : D'abord le kit sur l'archéo FR par @archeohautsdef.bsky.social -> bsky.app/starter-pack...

To all the archaebotanists here ⚠️⚠️ On behalf of the initiative “Ethics in Archaeobotany”, I invite you to complete a questionnaire until the 17th of January 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help to spread the voice! 🙏🙏

Ethics in Archaeobotanical Research Questionnaire

General Aim. The aim of this questionnaire is to gather information about the ethical issues that arise in the field of Archaeobotany (aspects linked to laboratory methods and general archaeobotanical...

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New paper 📢💥 "Viticulture in Iron Age and Roman southeastern France: A reconstruction based on charcoal and seed-fruit data compared to archaeological evidence and wine yields modelling". Open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Bonjour Bluesky ! L'association française d'archéologie mérovingienne est heureuse de débarquer sur le réseau et espère retrouver ici de nombreuses connaissances (individus, associations, labos, revues, musées...) pour continuer à valoriser l'archéologie et échanger avec vous tous : à bientôt !

📢📄Paper alert! Our database and identification key on woods from the Afromontane forest is out! 🪵⛰ brill.com/view/journal...

Bonjour Bluesky ! Les Annales du Midi arrivent sur BS et quittent X/twitter

In case you're curious, there's a whole special issue of The Journal of Cultural Heritage dedicated to scientific studies on the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. From dendrochronology to chemistry to archaeology, there's a wealth of amazing work here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour... #MedievalSky

New paper 📢 We documented fruit tree production and dietary practices in the Medieval and Modern Haouz (Morocco) using an archaeobotanical approach. A collaboration with the #INSAP (Rabat). Open access: www.hesperis-tamuda.com/Downloads/20...

📢 La Société des historiens médiévistes de l'enseignement supérieur public ( @shmesp.bsky.social ) est désormais ici. Abonnez vous pour vous tenir au courant de l'actualité de l'histoire médiévale en France 🔍

SHMESP@shmesp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bienvenue sur le compte de la SHMESP (relais apprécié)

I've made a starter pack for if you want great quality posts about medieval history. Let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/Eo1HyLT

📢Tomorrow, 27 November 2024 (12h CEST) ! The first 2024-25 GIAP seminar will take place and will be delivered by Dr Laurent Bouby on ‘Grapevine domestication and viticulture in Southern France during the Iron Age and Roman period'. Here is the link if you're interested : bit.ly/3C9S0bn

#archeométrie #CFP #GMPCA 📣 L'appel à communication pour le XXVe congrès du GMPCA (Groupe des Méthodes Pluridisciplinaires Contribuant à l’Archéologie) est prolongé jusqu'au 30 novembre 2024. gmpca2025.sciencesconf.org

Yet another starter pack! This one is for archaeobotany as I've not seen one around so far! I am sure I've missed many of you so please share it and comment to be included :) go.bsky.app/5fRwi48 #archaeobotany #palaeoethnobotany #carpology #phytoliths #ancientstarch #anthracology #palynology

A brief introduction ! Jerome, CNRS researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier, archaeobotanist, working on medieval agriculture and forests in the Mediterranean. PI of the #ISEMA project. Find my papers here : cv.hal.science/jerome-ros