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…).