various actors in Taphonomy research (mobility, exchange)
- To initiate Working-groups favoring scientific exchanges and meetings between European partners (see below: Actions 2018) ; include to some extend analysis cost, but not equipment;
- To organize Round-table, seminars... for WG or any specific themes related to taphonomy
- To encourage tranfer of competency (methodology) between teams and specialist, equipment and type of analysis, precise study protocols, support cost of analysis
- To create and to share DataBase, (as a virtual ‘Taphotheque’, modern and fossil referential/natural and experimental - in vitro and in vivo - collection) ; to demonstrate the variability of records (Tapho-facies, Tapho-diversity)
- To support young taphoscientists, as contribution and participation to international congress or visit in laboratory or museum.
A call for projects happens at the beginning of each year (see call for projects and projects pdf files below), funded partly by IRN (as ‘added value’). We also encourage colleagues to apply and to look for other funding at regional, national or international levels.
All requests have to be sent to the coordinator of taphen: jean-philippe.brugal@univ-amu.fr
Call for Working-Groups or specific projects are sent each year with a deadline, but other requests can be sent all over the year. Requests will be considered by the Scientific Committee constituted by representative of all partners.
2025:
Dear Colleague
Here is the second sending of the Call TaphEN 2025 according to a corrected list and directory Deadline 15th of April
visit our site https://taphonomy-network.blogspot.com/
Feel free to disseminate this call around you, and to contact us to exchange about potential proposal
Below, two possible actions supported by TaphEN, and for which you can apply some funding
1 - the Laboratory for Environmental Analyses and Taphonomy (LeaT) is offering to TaphEN members a 20% discount on any experiment they require. You can find more details about the features and experimental possibilities of this laboratory at this
link:https://www.mncn.csic.es/en/investigaci%C3%B3n/servicios-cientifico-tecnicos/laboratory-environmental-analyses-and-taphonomy-leat
Contact: Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo , for any experiment or experimental project you would like to do at LeaT. There is also a neotaphonomic collection for consultation of previous experiments carried out at LeaT that we will soon upload to this website.
2 - Next Meeting Taphos 2025 represents the 10th International Meeting on Taphonomy and continues the tradition of taphonomic meetings that have been regularly held in Spain since 1990 (Madrid 1990, Zaragoza 1995, Valencia 2002, Barcelona 2005, Granada 2008), and then in Tübingen (2011), Ferrara (2014), Vienna (2017), and Madrid (2022). The aims of the Taphos meetings have been to integrate all aspects of current taphonomic research from both palaeontological and archaeological context: biostratinomy, taphonomy in archaeology and anthropology, taphonomy in the analysis of patterns of evolution and extinction, taphonomy in biostratigraphy, theory of taphonomy, taphonomy in palaeoecology and sedimentology, Fossil-Lagerstätten (exceptional preservations), taphosystems, historical ecology and conservation palaeobiology. Contact : Davide BASSI
Taphos 2025 will be held in Ferrara (Italy) on 17th-19th June 2025. Two days are dedicated to the scientific sessions and one day to the field trip.
On behalf of the local organising committee, we look forward to welcoming you to Ferrara in June 2025.
Best Tapho Regards P. Fosse / J.P. Brugal
Here is the second sending of the Call TaphEN 2025 according to a corrected list and directory Deadline 15th of April
visit our site https://taphonomy-network.blogspot.com/ Feel free to disseminate this call around you, and to contact us to exchange about potential proposal
Below, two possible actions supported by TaphEN, and for which you can apply some funding
1 - the Laboratory for Environmental Analyses and Taphonomy (LeaT) is offering to TaphEN members a 20% discount on any experiment they require. You can find more details about the features and experimental possibilities of this laboratory at this
link:https://www.mncn.csic.es/en/investigaci%C3%B3n/servicios-cientifico-tecnicos/laboratory-environmental-analyses-and-taphonomy-leat
Contact: Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo
2 - Next Meeting Taphos 2025 represents the 10th International Meeting on Taphonomy and continues the tradition of taphonomic meetings that have been regularly held in Spain since 1990 (Madrid 1990, Zaragoza 1995, Valencia 2002, Barcelona 2005, Granada 2008), and then in Tübingen (2011), Ferrara (2014), Vienna (2017), and Madrid (2022). The aims of the Taphos meetings have been to integrate all aspects of current taphonomic research from both palaeontological and archaeological context: biostratinomy, taphonomy in archaeology and anthropology, taphonomy in the analysis of patterns of evolution and extinction, taphonomy in biostratigraphy, theory of taphonomy, taphonomy in palaeoecology and sedimentology, Fossil-Lagerstätten (exceptional preservations), taphosystems, historical ecology and conservation palaeobiology. Contact : Davide BASSI
Taphos 2025 will be held in Ferrara (Italy) on 17th-19th June 2025. Two days are dedicated to the scientific sessions and one day to the field trip. On behalf of the local organising committee, we look forward to welcoming you to Ferrara in June 2025.
Best Tapho Regards P. Fosse / J.P. Brugal
International Colloquium : Quaternary Taphonomy: insights from Europe
Closing Event of IRN 0871 Taphonomy European Network (TaphEN)
October 20-21-(22), 2026 MMSH, Aix-en-Provence
Program: Four sessions (half-days) will be proposed for 2 full days of exchanges and sharing (mainly in presential) following the main thematic of TaphEN – plus, in principle, a half-day of debate,:
I. Burial/Deposition & Alteration/Fossilization
II. Animal and human predation – Human-Carnivore Interactions
III. Paleoecology + Human Palethnology
IV. Neo-Taphonomy, Expérimentation and Referentials
Oral communication, relatively short (~10/15 min) in order to allow enough time (for each session) for exchanges
As part of
Session II, time will be allocated to contributions concerning Ursids, Felids,
Canids, and large Mustelids, for which current studies (field research,
reference collections) or studies on fossil assemblages (Middle/Late
Pleistocene) are still scarce. They allow to better understand some paleoecology
features (denning, evidence of cave use), and anthropozoology (food and
symbolic exploitation of predators) from a co-evolutionary perspective with
human groups.
The bear family is made up of carnivores that are peculiar in their behavior, being herbivorous, as well as in their use of cavities, with occupations alternating with human groups involving competition and symbolism (including parietal representations among others).
Presentation
of the colloqium:
Taphonomic analysis is an essential prerequisite for all paleoenvironmental, paleoecological, biochronological, or paleoethnological research and reconstructions. These are studies that involve approaches ranging from trans- to multi-disciplinary (archaeology, paleontology, geology, sedimentology, biology, ecology). These are multidisciplinary approaches, unifying for distinct communities belonging to Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Materials Sciences, and Human and Social Sciences.
Taphonomy indeed represents a vast field of study and research, with applications on numerous materials and ‘objects’ (bones, teeth, lithics, ceramics, biomarkers…) and is the subject of recent and ongoing methodological (instrumental) development, allowing to completely renew our approaches (often multi-scalar) and forge new specific knowledge and tools (e.g., machine learning, 3D scans, ultrasounds, morphometrics).
It is therefore a field that is regularly enriched, and which has become essential for analyzing the assemblages s.l. of the Past. It gives rise to multiple analytical approaches, thanks to observation and modern analogues (with the creation of reference frameworks) and/or experimentation (principle of actualism). Finally, these approaches promote pooling, teamwork, and disciplinary integration (culture/nature interfaces).
The creation of research structures (IRN supported by the CNRS) on the subject of Taphonomy clearly demonstrates the importance of these approaches, and a European network has been able to form, with many European partners (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, England, and beyond).
The conference will bring together all the stakeholders to present the actions funded by IRN 0871, supported by our European partners, covering the two terms of existence of this structure (2018-2021 and then 2022-2026), which also has a directory of nearly 220 people interested in the 'Tapho' theme, including institutional and personal contacts in 7 European countries.
The call for papers will be distributed within the TaphEN network, systematically requesting supported research (for a Review of the network's work) but also calling for contributions and proposals to all the IRN members.
It will be a closing event, which could serve to collectively reflect with our partners on the continuation of actions in this field. The main objective is thus to bring together a large international community on a European scale in order to discuss the latest research and data obtained in taphonomy and their explanatory implications in the understanding (in the sense of conservation, site formation) of archaeological, archaeozoological, or paleontological assemblages
Organization :
Philippe
Fosse & Jean-Philip Brugal, UMR 7269 LAMPEA
philippe.fosse@univ-amu.fr; jean-philippe.brugal@univ-amu.fr
Scientific
Comittee :
Christiane Denys UMR 7205 ISYEB, France
Armelle
Gardeisen, UMR 5140
ASM, France
Emmanuelle Stoetzel UMR 7194 HNHP, France
Jordi Rosell Ardèvol, Univ. Rovira i Virgili
(URV), Spain,
David Cuenca Solana, IIIPC, Santander, Spain,
Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Santander, Spain
Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, Museo Nacional de
Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain,
Montserrat Sanz Borràs, UNIARQ; Portugal &
Univ. Barcelona, Spain
Marco Peresani, UNIFE, Ferrara, Italy
Francesoc Boshin, U.R. Preistoria e
Antropologia , Univ Siena, Italy
Nicholas Conard, INA (Institut for Archaeological
Sciences, Tübingen, Germany
Richard Madgwick School of History, University of Cardiff, UK
Organizing
committee – UMR 7269
Pierre
Magniez (MCF AMU),
Antigone
Uzunidis (CR CNRS)
Lisa
Justiniany (Doc AMU)
Carla
Giuliani (Doc AMU)
Thibaut Guiragossian (IR CNRS)
CALL
Send a
short abstract (half-page) with title and list of authors (ref. biblio)
(institution and email addresses) to P. Fosse and J.-Ph. Brugal
philippe.fosse@univ-amu.fr; jean-philippe.brugal@univ-amu.fr
Deadline : 1st of June 2026
2023:Call of projets s.l. for 2023 within the Taphonomy European Network
Deadline 13th, Februray, 2023
Deadline 13th, Februray, 2023
2022:
2020:
Call for projects (deadline 20th February 2020)
The IRN group aims to develop a network on the subject of taphonomical studies. It is composed of several European partners in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, England, with one coordinator by country and laboratories.
Taphonomical approaches are a fundamental first analytical step for researches in paleoenvironmental,paleoecological and palethnological studies. They are developed in realms of trans- to pluri-disciplinary analyses (archeology, paleontology, geology, biology, ecology...) using a wide range of methodologies, and can be considered as a new integrative domain in Earth Sciences, Biosciences and Archeosciences.
All details in: (pdf file to download):
How to sumitAdministrative Vademecum
How to acknowledge TaphEN
Proposals to be send to J.P. Brugal (JPB / jean-philippe.brugal@univ-amu.fr)
deadline : 20th, February 2020
Each Proposal will be send to the Steering Committee for ranking
Credits can be available from March
Note that funds need to be used as much as possible for end of June, or at least committed near our administration for actions/missions after June (the end of 2020 CNRS fiscal year is late October)
2019:
Activity report 2019
2018:
Call for projects
Projects (detailed contents)
All people interested in any of these actions are asked to contact the PIs
(see themes and names/mails below):
- Bone Breakage Working Group
Alan K. Outram1, Emily V. Johnson1, Pierre Magniez2
1 Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, a.k.outram@exeter.ac.uk
2 AMU, CNRS, MiC, UMR 7269 Lampea, Aix-en-Provence, pierre.magniez@univ-amu.fr
presentations (pdf files)
Activity report 2018
- The role of the carnivores in the human evolution: a taphonomical approach
Jordi Rosell Ardèvol (1), Jean-Baptiste Fourvel (2), Ruth Blasco (3)
(1) IPHES, Tarragona jordi.rosellardevol@gmail.com
(2) UMR 5608 Traces, Toulouse jbfourvel@yahoo.com
(3) CENIEH, Burgos rblascolopez@gmail.com
- Trace Fossils as behavioral tool in Pleistocene Carnivores and other Mammals
Philippe Fosse, UMR 7269 LAMPEA, fosse@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Marco Avanzini, Museo delle Scienze, Trento, marco.avanzini@muse.it
Marian Cueto, Instit. Internac. de Investigaciones Prehistoricas de Cantabria, Santander, mariancuetor@gmail.com
- Integrated taphonomical approaches on Coprolites remains
Montserrat Sanz Borras (1), Jean-Philip Brugal (2)
(1) UCM Madrid/UNIARQ Lisbon, grupquaternari@hotmail.com
(2) UMR 7269 Lampea, Aix-en-Provence jean-philippe.brugal@univ-amu.fr
presentation and literature
Activity report 2018
- The analysis of insects-induced modifications on bones
Francesco Boschin – Università degli Studi di Siena; fboschin@hotmail.com
Jean-Bernard Huchet – UMR 7209 Archaeozoo/Archaeobota & UMR 7205 ISYeB & UMR 5199 Pacea, huchet@mnhn.fr
Activity report 2018
- New experimental method for the study of Prehistoric personal ornaments: State of the art
Renata Martínez-Cuesta, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander (Spain) reny115.rm@gmail.com
Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Instit. Internac. de Investigaciones Prehistoricas de Cantabria, Santander, igorgutierrez.zug@gmail.com
Solange Rigaud, CNRS UMR5199 PACEA, Univ. Bordeaux (France). srigaud17@gmail.com
Alain Queffelec, CNRS UMR5199 PACEA, Univ. Bordeaux (France) alain.queffelec@ubordeaux.fr
Activity report 2018
- Non-invasive study of the taphonomical phenomena in Aurignacian ivories by combined RBS/PIXE/PIGE imaging
Ina Reiche1, Claire Heckel2, Vladislav Zhitenev3, Nicholas Conard4
1- PSL, Institut de recherche de chimie Paris (IRCP) UMR 8247 CNRS ENSCP & Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France,
ina.reiche@chimie-paristech.fr/ina.reiche@culture.gouv.fr
2- New York University
3- Lomonosow University Moscow, Russia
4- Universität de Tübingen, Germany
Activity report 2018
- Taphonomic bias in dental microwear studies?
Antigone Uzunidis (1), Sergio Jiménez-Manchón (2,3), Florent Rivals (4)
(1) UMR 7269 LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, antigone.uzunidis@wanadoo.fr
(2) UMR 5140 ASM, Montpellier, sergiojimenezmanchon@gmail.com
(3)Labex ARCHIMEDE program IA- ANR-11-LABX-0032-01
(4) ICREA Research Professor, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), florent.rivals@icrea.cat
- “Shell tools” Working Group
Campmas Emilie / TRACES-UMR 5608 du CNRS, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, em.campmas@gmail.com
Cuenca-Solana David / IIIPC-Universidad de Cantabria Spain, david.cuencasolana@gmail.com
Manca Laura / MHNH, Paris France, laurarch78@gmail.com
Romagnoli Francesca / UAM-Universitad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain f.romagnoli2@gmail.com; francesca.romagnoli@uam.es