Sampling campagne
It is on the bucolic riversides of the Dordogne (south-western France) that Amélie recently sampled archaeological features at two iron age and gallo-roman settlements. Several…
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Annual external control of our XRF equipment
As happens every year, Amélie was visited by the French Nuclear Safety Authority (or l’Autorité de Sureté Nucléaire) in order to have our ionizing radiation…
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Chemical analysis (pXRF) of iron age jewellery
Amélie carried out the chemical analysis of an important assemblage of iron age jewellery excavated in a necropolis in eastern France. 208 artefacts have been…
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Large scale geochemical mapping in the Seine valley
Amélie just finished the geochemical mapping by pXRF of a neolithic and bronze/iron age settlement in the Seine valley. We analysed the elementary composition of…
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Join our session at the EAA in Barcelona !
In 2018, Sabrina Save is organising a session during the 24th annual meeting of the EAA (European Association of Archaeologists) in Barcelona from the 5th to the 8th of September 2018 (https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2018). This session is…
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In February, Amélie will be in residence at the University of Cambridge
From the 3rd of February to the 3rd of March, Amélie will work from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge…
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Animal droppings
Two small and friable spheres suspected to be animal droppings recovered from a Neolithic building were investigated through Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy…
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