Caroline Partiot
Caroline Partiot
- Coordination | Bioarchaeology Lab
- Archaeological Sciences – Bioarcharchaeology Lab
- +43 1 51581-4149
- caroline.partiot(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Bioarchaeology Lab, Archaeological Sciences), she has been in charge of the Anthropology Lab and curating its anthropological collections since 2023. She is a biological anthropologist and funerary archaeologist trained in bioarchaeology and archaeothanatology at the University of Bordeaux, France, and in Egyptology at Sorbonne Université (Paris IV).
Her research focuses on the osteobiography and funerary practices of individuals from past populations, with particular interest in the biological variability and life courses of children from a diachronic perspective, spanning Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. She has a strong interest in investigating early-life adversity through multiproxy analyses.
She coordinates the bioanthropological component of the project ‘Diachronic Population Studies in the Microregion of Southern Carinthia in the Centuries of Upheaval – from Inland Noricum to Carantania’, as well as the archaeo-anthropological analyses of the excavations in Ephesos.
She contributes to numerous international collaborative projects, including the archaeothanatological and osteological study of cremation urns from the Tophet of Salammbô in Carthage, Tunisia (Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie [INP] and École française de Rome [EFR]). She has participated in fieldwork as a team member and lead anthropologist on excavations from diverse chronological and geographical contexts, including Medieval France, Ancient Egypt, Neolithic Sudan, Bronze Age Oman, the native Caribbean, and Byzantine Ephesos.
She is a member of the Board of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, a member of the editorial board of the Journal de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, and the founder of the ARTHA network, a working group dedicated to archaeothanatology in Central Europe.
Research Projects
- Biological identities, life courses and mortuary practices in Ephesos
- »Diachronic Population Studies in the Microregion of Southern Carinthia in the Centuries of Upheaval ›from Inland Noricum up to Carantania‹«
- »Unveiling Neolithic Identities in the Balkans: Multiproxy Anthropological Insights from the Immature Remains from Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia«
- ARTHA - (French-Austrian ARchaeoTHAnatology Network)
Research interests
- Osteobiography of populations from the Palaeolithic to the Modern period
- Archaeothanatological analyses and funerary practices
- Human-environment interactions
- Early life adversity
- Dental histology
- CT and µCT scans
- cremations