Laurent AUBRY
2025-2026
SMI-CNRS
CNRS – laboratoire Trajectoire
De nouveaux objets pour de nouvelles pratiques en archéologique. Les apports méthodologiques de l’impression 3D en archéologie
As a geophysicist and geomatics engineer affiliated with UMR-8215 « Trajectoires. De la sédentarisation à l’Etat » (CNRS Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), I hold a PhD in geophysics applied to archaeology (UPMC) and joined the CNRS in 2003. As a research engineer, my areas of interest are deeply methodological and revolve around the spatialisation of archaeological information, from geophysical prospecting of archaeological sites to the development of spatial databases and their expression in Geographic Information Systems, including spatial analysis. Beyond the ‘technical’ aspect, I am particularly interested in the impact these methods have on archaeological practices and the changes they bring about. For the past fifteen years or so, I have specialised in the 3D representation of archaeological finds (from artefacts to sites) through acquisition/modelling. Recently, I have been exploring 3D printing and studying the impact of the rematerialisation of archaeological data on practices.
Projet de recherche
3D technologies, i.e., high-resolution 3D modelling and printing (and possibly realistic painting of prints), offer archaeologists new objects that can be used in scientific research, higher education, promotion and heritage preservation. Archaeological objects are unique, difficult to access and fragile. The use of 3D technologies makes archaeological information available by producing objects that are free from these constraints. An initial analysis grid has been established based on methodological advances, representing real paradigm shifts brought about by these objects in the stated fields of application.
This project aims to explore the methodological developments in standard practices brought about by these hybrid objects through two local collaborations, one in the field of scientific research on the ceramic corpus of the Neolithic site of Añana and the other in higher education as part of a collaboration with the UAM.
Sélection de publications
2021, « La carte et le territoire : la dalle gravée du Bronze ancien de Saint-Bélec (Leuhan, Finistère) », C.Nicolas, Y. Pailler, P. Stéphan, J. Pierson,L. Aubry, B. Le Gall, V. Lacombe, J. Rolet, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, pp.99-146
2023, « Territoires et stratégies d’implantation des sites des premiers agriculteurs éleveurs néolithiques d’europe occidentale. L’exemple du Rubané de la vallée de l’Aisne (France) », F. Couderc, L. Aubry, C. Hamon, M. Ilett, in « Dynamiques Des peuplements, Des territoires et Des paysages. Bilan et perspectives en archéologie spatiale, hommages à Jean-luc Fiches », dir. F. Bertoncello, M.L Ouriachi, L. Nuninger, F. Favory, Editions APCDCA, Nice, pp189-199
2024, Ivan Praud (Dir.). Du Néolithique à l’âge du Bronze sur le littoral de la Manche et de la mer du Nord : le site d’Escalles « mont d’Hubert » (Pas-de-Calais). Société préhistorique française, 532 p., 2024, Mémoires de la Société préhistorique française, 73, 2-913745-94-6. ?hal-04441066?
2024, « Quarrying volcanic landscapes: territory and strategies of metate production in Turícuaro (Michoacan) », C. Hamon, G. Pereira, L. Aubry, O. Chevrel, C. Siebe, O. Quesada, N. Reyes-Guzman, Geofisica Internacional, 63-2, 929-948, (https://doi.org/10.22201)
2025, « Production of metates in central Mexico: Techniques (know-how) and chaine operatoire of a traditional lithic craft in Turícuaro (Michoacán, Mexico), C. Hamon, G. Pereira, L. Aubry, O. Chevrel, C. Siebe, O. Quesada, N. Reyes-Guzman, Journal of archaeological science : Reports, vol 64, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105153
