Chargé(e) de Recherche (H/F) Physical Anthropology and Prehistoric Funerary Traditions of the...

- Stratigraphic excavations in funerary and habitat contexts
- Management of archaeological material and samples in the field (listing, export forms and export logistics), management of samples in the laboratory (storage, quotation, orders, shipping);
- Processing of data from the excavation and archiving on databases;
-Identification of human remains;
- Bibliographical research on the funerary practices of the 3rd millennium in the Caucasus (South and North) and Eastern Europe;
- Work in collaboration with the isotope specialist (LAMPEA laboratory)
- Valorisation of the results (scientific reports, participation in international conferences, publications and scientific blogs);
- Participation in the activities of the CEPAM laboratory (team meetings, GA etc.)
- Possible co-organisation of seminars

Participation in fieldwork in Azerbaijan and Georgia;
- Archaeological excavations in Azerbaijan and Georgia;;
- Construction and management of databases on funerary data from the South Caucasus during the 3rd millennium
- Analysis of funerary gestures through an archaeo-anthropological approach.
- Survey of kurgans
- Study of human remains
- Participation in study and sampling missions in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia
- Sampling of human remains for isotopic analysis
- Analysis of funerary practices of the sampled collections

This job offer is part of a scientific collaboration between archaeologists, dendrochronologists, environmentalists, palynologists, archaeozoologists and geochemists around the activities of the MEAE archaeological mission "Boyuk Kesik" in Azerbaijan (dir. G. Palumbi) and those of the DAI mission in Georgia (dir. S. Hansen) and around the ANR-DFG project "From Kura-Araxes to Early Kurgans. Tracing 3rd millennium social and cultural changes in the Kura river valley (Georgia and Azerbaijan). Environment, food, chronology". The aim of this project is to understand the radical changes in social orders, subsistence patterns, cultural values, lifestyles and living arrangements during the third millennium BC in the South Caucasus, particularly in the Kura River valley. The project is based on an archaeological and bioarchaeological approach and relies on field research and laboratory studies in collaboration with numerous French and German researchers.
The project, entitled KUR(A)GAN (PI G. Palumbi, CEPAM, Nice), is financed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the activities will be based in Nice (apart from authorised missions) in the premises of the CEPAM laboratory (Cultures - Environnements. Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge). At the Laboratory CEPAM, the selected candidate will be integrated into the STEP team (Technical Systems, Ethnoarchaeology, Prehistory). Missions are also planned to the LAMPEA Laboratory (Aix en Provence), to Lyon and to Berlin, DAI Eurasien Abteilung for the study of pre- and protohistoric funerary traditions in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe.