Catherine Dupont Editor & Author

Catherine Dupont is an archaeomalacologist and a senior researcher in the CNRS (French national centre for scientific research). She works at the Research Center in Archaeology, Archaeosciences, History (CReAAH) at the Rennes University (France). Her primary research specialism is marine invertebrate and in shell-middens from prehistoric fisher-hunter-gatherers, with a focus on the Atlantic European coasts. She develops methods in the field on shell-middens and analyses on shells in a diachronic perspective from the past to the present day, highlighting the diversity of their uses (food, ornament, dyeing, wall decoration, tools, symbolic items, etc.). Anna Baudry is an archaeozoologist at Inrap (French national Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) and a member of the CNRS’s CReAAH joint research unit (Center in Archaeology, Archaeosciences, History). Her research focuses on the study of animal resources and the role of meat consumption in Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures of north-western and central-western France. She works on the acquisition, management and consumption of animal resources in populations with territories largely open to the Channel-Atlantic coast (pastoral practices, eating habits, trade circuits, etc.). Marie-Yvane Daire is an archaeologist and senior researcher in the CNRS’s CReAAH joint research unit (Research Center in Archaeology, Archaeosciences, History). Her research focuses on the protohistoric societies of Europe’s Atlantic seaboard. In addition to a growing interest in the exploitation of maritime and coastal resources (fishing, salt, etc.) and a conceptual approach to coastal and island societies, for several years she has been developing a diachronic analysis of the impact of environmental coastal change s and the vulnerability of coastal and island heritage through national, international and collaborative research projects (Arch-Manche, ALeRT, ALOA, etc.). She is also President of AMARAI (Association Manche Atlantique pour la Recherche Archéologique dans les Îles).