Dr. Catherine Dupont

Catherine Dupont is an archaeomalacologist and a senior researcher in the CNRS (French national centre for scientific research). She works at the Research Center in Archaeology, Archaeosciences, History (CReAAH) at the Rennes University (France). Her primary research specialism is marine invertebrate and in shell-middens from prehistoric fisher-hunter-gatherers, with a focus on the Atlantic European coasts. She develops methods in the field on shell-middens and analyses on shells in a diachronic perspective from the past to the present day, highlighting the diversity of their uses (food, ornament, dyeing, wall decoration, tools, symbolic items, etc.).


Books by Catherine Dupont

Archaeology Of Coastal Settlements / Archéologie des peuplements littoraux

HOMER 2021 Conference

Edited by Catherine Dupont, Anna Baudry & Marie-Yvane Daire | Forthcoming

This volume presents the proceedings of the HOMER 2021 international conference, held in September/October 2021 on the Island of Oléron, France. The conference focused on recent advances in coastal and island archaeology across a wide…









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