Gwenaëlle Goude

I am bioanthropologist-bioarchaeologist, specialized in the study of past human behaviors by using biological and biogeochemical analyses on the human remains. My main researches are gravitating towards the first farmers in the Mediterranean and Europe to understand how humans adapted their diet, mobility and social organization during the development of herding and farming. I am also interested on the biological and health responses to these changes as well as the diversity of human-environment relationships through time. These last years, I have focused part of my work on the women status in ancient societies with international multidisciplinary teams (archaeozoologists, archeobotanists, archaeologists, culturalists, ecologists, osteologists, geneticists, biogeochemists) and multi-proxy approaches (e.g. dental calculus microremains, aDNA, activity markers on bone, strontium isotopes, stables isotopes on amino acids, trace elements) (e.g. <https://lampea.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article3473>). I am coordinating (2022-2026) a research programme funded by the ANR: WomenSOFar - Individual life histories and WOMEN Status at the Onset of FARming. Bioarchaeological perspectives in the French and Mediterranean Prehistoric context (PRC LAMPEA - CEREGE – PACEA; <https://womensofar.hypotheses.org/>) and participating to other national and international projects and networks as ERC Co-G, MSCA-IF, IRN. I am also involved in the BMSAP editorial board and the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris board of directors (<https://www.sapweb.fr/index.php/fr/>).