Gwenaëlle Goude

Research scientist – CNRS (PhD, HDR)Laboratory LAMPEA, Aix en Provence, France – gwenaelle.goude@univ-amu.fr

I am bioanthropologist-bioarchaeologist, specialized in the study of past human behaviors by using biological and biogeochemical analyses (e.g. carbon, nitrogen, sulphur stable isotopes on collagen) on the human remains. My main researches are gravitating towards the first farmers in the Mediterranean and Europe to understand how humans adapted their diet, mobility and social organization during the development of herding and farming. I am also interested on the biological and health responses to these changes as well as the diversity of human-environment relationships through time. These last years, I have focused part of my work on the women status in ancient societies with international multidisciplinary teams (archaeozoologists, archeobotanists, archaeologists, culturalists, ecologists, osteologists, geneticists, biogeochemists) and multi-proxy approaches (e.g. dental calculus microremains, aDNA, activity markers on bone, strontium isotopes, stables isotopes on amino acids, trace elements) (e.g. https://lampea.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article3473). I strongly believe on the success of such interdisciplinary interactions to move forward on scientific issues and I participate with enthusiasm in the MERMAID project as external expert in the work package 4 “Mediterranean societies and marine resources”. My aim in the project is to provide scientific elements to assess the role of marine resources in human diet and to interact with MERMAID collaborators to re-examine previous assumptions and acquire new bioarchaeological dataset.