"ArchaeoENHANCE": topic, aims and preliminary results of the new taphonomy project.
Emilie Campmas  1@  , David Cuenca-Solana  2@  , Laura Manca  3  , Romagnoli Francesca  4@  
1 : Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés  (TRACES)  -  Website
CNRS : UMR5608, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II
Maison de la Recherche, 5 Allée Antonio Machado 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9 -  France
2 : Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantrabria [Santander]  (IIIPC)  -  Website
Edificio Interfacultativo Avda. de los Castros,s/n Tel. 942 202090 E-39005 Santander Cantabria -  Espagne
3 : Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7209
4 : Universidad Autónoma de Madrid  (UAM)  -  Website
Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco · 28049 Madrid -  Espagne

In the last decades, the improvement of technological and functional approach applied to malacological remains has shown the potential of the study of shell tools and opened new perspectives for the characterisation of techno-economic, social and territorial aspects of prehistoric communities. Although in the last years several pioneer researches allowed setting methodological basis for the development of the study of shell tools, taphonomic bias is still few understood. The ArchaeoENHANCE project, developed within the International Research Network of Taphen (CNRS), provides to realise a 4-years experimental protocol to improve the methodological study of shell tools obtaining a systemic comprehension of the malacological collections in archaeological contexts, especially focusing on taphonomic point of view in macro and microscopic analysis. We present the experimental protocol we have developed and preliminary results of the macro and microscopic analysis of used and unused shells, at the beginning of the project.


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