#  (Bio)Archaeological Approaches to Disease and Death in Early Medieval France 

 



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 **June 24, 2022** 

 03:00PM - 04:30PM EDT 

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 **Our world has changed.** The Covid-19 **pandemic** has reshaped the way we think about diseases, their transmission, and their impact on our lives. But are we the first to face such a crisis?

 A shrinking written record marks past pandemics. But the victims remain, and from their **strange burials** and **ancient DNA**, the **Science of the Human Past** has begun to reconstruct what happened, in **France** and across western Eurasia, during the **first pandemic of bubonic plague** in the **Roman Empire** and its neighbors from 541 to 750 AD.

 Come and be **a part of the launch** of a pioneering **international investigation** of anomalous burials in **France** that take us back to that **first pandemic**. Learn what **French archaeologists** and the **Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for Archaeoscience’**s biomolecular archaeologists are discovering today.

 **Join us** and our **expert archaeologists** in a new **transatlantic collaboration** that brings **together Harvard University,** the **Max Planck-Harvard Research Center** for Archaeoscience and the **advanced research of France**.

 **Hybrid In-Person and Remote Event! To register in advance for a Zoom webinar link:**  
[https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_dJ-IPc0ZTUq79hSHElP3vA](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dJ-IPc0ZTUq79hSHElP3vA)

 In-person location: CGIS South: Belfer Case Study Room (Lower Level) 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

 *Speakers and Discussants:*

- **Philippe Blanchard,** Archéologue, Ingénieur chargé de Recherche INRAP/UMR 5199 PACEA
- **Isabelle Catteddu,** Ingénieure Chargée de Recherche à l'INRAP Grand Ouest, Archéologue Spécialiste du premier Moyen Age rural, UMR 6566 CReAAH
- **Valérie Delattre,** Archéo-anthropologue Inrap, UMR 6298 ARTeHIS -Université de Bourgogne
- **Michael McCormick**, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University; Chair, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP); Director at Harvard, Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM).
- **Claude Raynaud,** Directeur de recherches, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR 5140 ASM, LabEx
- **Solenn Troadec**, Postdoctoral Fellow, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, Harvard University
- **Marie-Cécile Truc,** Responsable d’opération et étude du petit mobilier haut Moyen Âge - Moyen Âge, Ingénieure de recherche Inrap, UMR 6273 CRAHAM Université de Caen

 *Sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) and the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP),* *with the support of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, fostering French-American cooperation in science and technology*



 

 

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