Université de Provence

Non-permanent member, UMR 6636 LAMPEA (Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe, Afrique)

Thesis Title: Neolithic passage tomb art around the Irish Sea: iconography and spatial organization.

About

Themes of research:
- Neolithic Western Europe (Atlantic and Mediterranean);
- Neolithic funerary iconography (monumental art and ceramic decoration);
- Neolithic funerary architecture (monumental tombs and standing stones systems);

In 2008 I completed a PhD in archaeology entitled ‘Neolithic passage tomb art around the Irish Sea: iconography and spatial organization’. This research was co-supervised by Serge Cassen (CNRS, Université de Nantes, France) and Muiris O’Sullivan (University College Dublin, Ireland) and focused on the recurrent spatial structures (signs combinations, relations with the architecture, etc.) that the carved geometric motifs form within the monumental tombs of Neolithic Ireland and Britain.

From November 2009 to October 2011 I was a Fyssen Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sassari (Sardinia, Italy). My research project was on the spatial organisation of the art in the Neolithic hypogea of the island.

My principal research interests are the architecture and the parietal iconography of the monumental tombs of western Europe, and particularly the way their spatial organisation can help us to understand the funerary representations and cosmogony of the Neolithic people.
I am also interested in recording and modelling technologies applied to these decorated architectures.

During my PhD I taught at the University of Nantes and the University of Rennes 2 on different subjects including Prehistoric art, Neolithic monumentality of western France and computer aided drawing for archaeology. More recently I gave occasional lectures on the Neolithic funerary monuments and parietal art of western Europe in the University of Sassari.

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