Coordination :
Vanessa Elizagoyen, Study and research officer at INRAP - Field manager 
Isabelle Sidéra, Research Directress at CNRS
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This field of research is based on the notion of "gesture", defined as an operation involving the human body with a precise purpose, and which is often the subject of apprenticeship. Exploiting archaeological, archaeometric, iconographic and textual data, archaeologists, historians and literary scholars working in this field aim to identify the social, cultural and symbolic dynamics at work in technical and ritual practices.
The restitution of technical gestures refers to the process implemented in an operative chain (Chaîne opératoire), from the acquisition of a raw material and its preparation, to the manufacture of an object or a monument, to its use and beyond, its abandonment, its recycling, etc. Experimental archaeology is a complementary resource field for addressing these issues. Ritual gestures are also considered from the perspective of the study of the representation of an individual or a social group, as they contribute to maintaining memory and defining identity as well as socio-cultural norms. Gestures are also studied in the social, political and economic interactions between people, in their verbal and non-verbal communication in everyday life. The symbolic, religious and aesthetic dimensions of objects are important parameters of the research carried out within the axis. The studies cover the long term, from the earliest protohistory, the Neolithic, to the contemporary period.
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Current projects
- AgroPast : coord. S. Faravel et F. Boutoulle
- Medieval Art across Time. Erudition and restorations on medieval works of art (17th-19th centuries) : coord. A. Mounier (Archéosciences)
- Fabrication et diffusion des amphores à huile (Dressel 6b), en particulier Adriatique : coord. Y. Marion
- Fouille programmée du cimetière de la Madeleine à Saint-Emilion (Gironde, 33)
- Bordeaux et l'estuaire de la Gironde pendant les Deux Guerres mondiales : prospections thématiques : coord. Q. Baril & J. Bonnenfant
- PCR DiachroNive. Rôle de la Nive dans l’implantation et la structuration des populations du Paléolithique moyen à la Prorohistoire : coord. P. Marticorena
- AQUITAVIAE : Carte participative des routes de l’Aquitaine romaine : coord. Fr. Tassaux
Montage d’une Plateforme d’archéologie expérimentale pour chercheurs et étudiants, projet Ausonius et Archeosciences : coord. V. Elizagoyen, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, I. Sidéra
Past projects
- Innovation and technological transfers in south-western Europe in the 1st millennium B.C.
- Archaeology and construction of rural churches before the year 1000 in Aquitaine
- The coastline of Northern Istria and its hinterland (2nd century BC - 6th century AD)
- Architecture of the Northeast Aegean sites
- Architecture and construction methods in south-western Europe in the late Middle Ages
- Programmed excavation of the Necropolis of Saint-Martin de Bruch (47)
- Programmed excavation of the Iberian pottery workshop of Foz-Calanda (Teruel, Spain)
- Programmed excavation of the Malvieu site (Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, Hérault)
- Collective research project: Medieval ceramics in Aquitaine
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