Caroline Partiot

, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow | Bioarchaeology Lab

Archaeological Sciences

Contact

Telephone: +43 1 51581-4149

Location: Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna

Biographical sketch

Degree in Biological Anthropology (M.Sc.) from the University of Bordeaux and degree in Egyptology (M.A.) from the University of la Sorbonne Paris IV, PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Bordeaux (France). Former postdoctoral researcher at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (UMR 7206 Eco-anthropology), contract researcher in several projects at UMR 5199 Pacea (Bordeaux, France), and part-time lecturer at the University of Bordeaux. Postdoctoral fellow at the ÖAI since 2023. Study of the life course  of children through osteobiographical analysis and study of burial practices through archaeothanatology. Member of the »Société d'Anthropologie de Paris« since 2015 and of its Board of Directors since 2024. Member of the »Archéo-Nil« Association since 2013. Active fieldwork in Turkey (Ephesos), Sudan (Kadruka 23), Austria, and metropolitan and overseas France (Guadeloupe). Member of the permanent team for the archaeothanatological study of the secondary cremation deposits at Salammbô's Tophet in Carthage, Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie and Ecole Française de Rome. Member of the permanent excavation team at the Neolithic necropolis of Kadruka 23, Sudan, UMR 7206 Eco-anthropology and UMR 7264 CEPAM. Lead anthropologist in the European project »Ecotropical Island Systems« ECSIT, interactions between Amerindian settlements in Guadeloupe and the biocenosis during the peri-contact period.

Research Projects

Research interests

  • Analysis of the biological diversity of individuals who died during infancy
  • Archaeothanatological analyses and funerary practices
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Study of early life adversity
  • Dental histology
  • CT and µCT scans
  • Ephesos: Burial practices and life trajectories of the population buried in the cemetery of the Church of Mary

 

Publications

Journal Publication (12)

Book/Monograph (1)

Contribution in Collection (1)

Dissertation (2)