The ARTHA network has received international funding via the PHC Amadeus and the OeAD

We are pleased to annonce that in December 2025, the project ARTHA was selected for Austro-French funding by the OeAD – Agency for Education and Internationalisation and the Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) Amadeus (Austrian PI: Caroline Partiot, OeAI-OeAW;  French Pis: Aline Thomas, MNHN; Anaïs Lebrun, EVEHA). 

The Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) will be the Austrian host laboratory, with the University of Vienna, the Natural History Museum Vienna, and the University of Graz as partner institutions. On the French side, the project is led by the CNRS UMR 7206 Ecoanthropology (Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Paris, France), in collaboration with the  CNRS UMR 5199 PACEA(Bordeaux, France), and the CNRS UMR 7268 ADES (Marseille, France). 

For the next two years, the objective of the working group  will be to work on  the two core stages of archaeothanatological research: data recording and terminology development on the one hand, and field interpretation on the other. The project combines a theoretical phase—focused on collaborative work to adapt and translate protocols and terminology into German with researchers from diverse backgrounds —and a practical validation phase, during which early-career researchers will test the developed tools under real excavation conditions.