Emmanuelle CASANOVA

Role

Researcher CEA Laboratory of climate and environmental sciences CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Scientific manager of the organic geochemistry platform

Research

Themes

• Agropastoralism emergence: economic and societal changes
• Chronology of prehistoric populations
• Interactions humans and environment during the Holocene

Methods

• Biomolecular archaeology
• Molecul and isotopic geochemistry
• Geochronology ¹⁴C
• Compound specific ¹⁴C analyses

Projects

• AGROCHRONO (2025-2029) “Timing the economic, cultural and environmental patterns of agropastoralism development in the Indo-Iranian borderlands” – ERC Starting Grant
• POTIRAN (2023) “Pottery Typology of an Iron Age Necropolis” – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• MAHI (2022)  “Exploitation of aquatic resources during hte Iranian Neolithic” – Natural History Museum of Paris
• SIALK (2021) “Subsistence and agropastoralism in Iran : Protein and lipid analyses of ancient food residues in the Kashan plain” – Natural History Museum of Paris
• VARGAH (2021-2023) “Investigating the emergence of mobile and sedentary pastoralism in Neolithic Iran through ancient food residues analyses and radiocarbon dating” – Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions

CV & Publications

Details https://cv.hal.science/emmanuelle-casanova