Sophie Krausz

Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | UNiVPARIS1 · Département de Histoire de l'art et archéologie (UFR03)

The community of archaeologists working on the Iron Age has been structured over the last half-century around fifteen French UMRs and as many European universities. These academic organisations contribute to form a network of researchers facilitated, since the 1980s, by perennial structures such as the Association Française pour l'Etude de l'Age du Fer (AFEAF) and the Bibracte project (oppidum excavations and European research centre). The main objective of the IRN NEMESIS project is to contribute to the enlargement of the scientific network of protohistorians active in the field of Celtic studies and to identify new fields of research that can be shared on a wider geographical scale. In this respect, IRN wishes to support researchers who prepare ambitious research projects of high scientific level and international scope with the aim of being submitted to European calls for proposals (ANR, European Research Council, Horizon Europe). The geographical area selected, from the Atlantic to the Black Sea, includes regions which witnessed the gradual emergence of urban societies during the Iron Age (8th - 1st c. ECB). Within this space, European protohistorians focus their research on the rhythms of evolution of human communities (Celtiberians, Celts, Dacians...), the formation of territories and the evolution of social structures. Among the scientific issues arising from current challenges, we have chosen four particularly relevant and unifying themes to found the NEMESIS network: Agglomerations and settlement networks (emergence and development of urbanization); Economy and exchanges (production, nature and intensity of exchanges, trade flows, monetarization); Environment, agriculture and landscapes (agricultural systems and techniques, social and political implications); The religious factor as a vector of the organization of territories and societies. In practice, IRN's activity will be centred on annual meetings in a "thematic workshop" format. These workshops will be designed and organised in turn by the partner teams, with the aim of encouraging co-productions between a French and a European team. The core group of the project is composed of two French partners (Ausonius UMR5607 and Bibracte EPCC) and three foreign partners (univ. Babeș-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, univ. Masaryk, Brno, University of Durham) associated with seven UMRs/French universities.