Teaching science at school with archaeology
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- Published: 01 March 2016
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For her master’s thesis in “Professions in teaching, education and training”, Mylène Trouillet, now a schoolteacher, chose the topic of using archaeology to teach science in elementary school.
Chinese nephrite distribution in Europe
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- Published: 04 November 2014
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Following the discovering of a complete heavy ormamental set of an equestrian warrior from a rich Thracian necropolis at Chatalka in the Stara Zagora region (Bulgaria), É. Gonthier, R. I. Kostov and E. Strack present "A Han-dated ‘hydra’-type nephrite scabbard slide found in Chatalka (Bulgaria): the earliest and most distant example of Chinese nephrite distribution in Europe".
Is it possible to improve the analysis of an archaeological dig without being the one digging?
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- Published: 17 August 2014
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Does archaeological research only consist in digging? Asking this is to risk getting involved in a sensitive subject which always divides the archaeological scientific community, between the old school ones and the ones from mediation theory. On February 22, 2014, Prof. Margueron reopened the debate that led to the article of Dr. Gransard-Desmond: "Is it possible to improve the analysis of an archaeological dig without being the one digging?".