Emilie Bérard

• PhD
• Assistant Professor at Université Paris Saclay - CNRS - ICMMO

The exploration of archaeological heritage aims at understanding past societies through the study of ancient materials. While archaeometric analysis provides valuable insights, invasive sampling raises ethical concerns and is often restricted, necessitating the development of non-invasive techniques. This study presents a methodology based on X-Ray...

The PUMA beamline, created for the heritage community and accessible by all fields of science, welcomed its first users in 2019. Its optical layout uses a horizontal focusing mirror to prefocus the light emitted from the wiggler source for the experimental endstation. It provides a 5 µm × 7 µm microbeam for XRF, XAS, XRD and XEOL analysis or a wide...

At the end of the Middle Ages the Aegean was an active trade area, connected to numerous exchange networks. Arms and armor were strategic products, exchanged over extra-regional distance through the Mediterranean trade. To shed light both on military goods manufacturing and Aegean trade networks, this paper focuses on the archaeometric examination...

Early Palaeozoic sites with soft-tissue preservation are predominantly found in Cambrian rocks and tend to capture past tropical and temperate ecosystems. In this study, we describe the diversity and preservation of the Cabrières Biota, a newly discovered Early Ordovician Lagerstätte from Montagne Noire, southern France. The Cabrières Biota showcas...

The paper aims at understanding the nature of ferrous alloys used for the fabrication of Renaissance armour in a Nuremberg workshop, owned by Valentin Siebenbürger. Noninvasive techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) using synchrotron radiation (SR) are well suited to identify the different crystalline phases, characteristic of ancient ferrous a...

Well-dated and preserved medieval bombards are rare and, most of the time, only exist in single exemplar. They are nevertheless exceptional testimonies of the medieval metallurgical skills. The musée de l’Armée (Paris), owns six impressive powder chambers, found in the same place (Meaux, France) and dated from the same period (15th c.). For the fir...

This study focuses on the extensive archaeometallurgical characterization of a suit of an exceptional armour belonging to the “Musée du Vieux-Château” in Laval (France). Except for the helmet, its morphological features correspond to a rare Italian-style equipment dated from the 15thcentury. However, its exact origin is unknown. Metallurgical inves...

Provenance studies of ancient armour based on trace elements in slag inclusions (SI) present analytical challenges due to the small size (<30 μm) of the particles. This paper presents an analytical protocol developed for this kind of SI using LA-ICP-MS. Two different LA-ICP-MS systems were tested: a double focusing inductively coupled plasma mass s...

Ce projet s’intéresse à un objet particulier : l’armure. Celle-ci, dont la fonction première était de protéger le combattant, s’est adaptée entre le XIIIe et le XVIIe siècle aux bouleversements qu’ont connu les pratiques de guerre et l’organisation des armées dans cette période. L’armure pouvait aussi avoir une autre fonction, celle de distinguer s...

At the end of the Middle Ages, armor was considered both an object for everyday military use and a luxury attire. Furthermore, war practices have undergone major changes both on the technological level (appearance of english longbows or firearms) as well as the organizational one (development of mercenary companies). Accordingly, defensives arms we...

At the end of the Middle Ages, a major part of the craft of armour making was concentrated in a few international centres like Milan in Lombardy, which is considered as the centre of the Lombard iron trade. This city spread its production all over Europe. Nowadays, Milanese pieces can be identified thanks to the armourer’s workshop marking stamped....

At the end of the Middle-Ages, armor is an object both for everyday military use and a luxury attire produced in prestigious European centers of production like Milan located in the north of Italy and Nuremberg or Augsburg in the south of Germany. Even if some research works have focused on that subject nevertheless several questions concerning the...

A la fin du Moyen Âge l‘armure est un objet à double destinations : à la fois objet de grande consommation et d’usage courant dans le cas des armures de troupes, mais également dans d’autre cas, un objet de prestige élaboré dans différents centres européens de grande renommée. Du point de vue de l’histoire des techniques de nombreuses questions se...

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