Aline Emery-Barbier

Attached to UMR 7041 Archeologies and Sciences of Antiquity, at the House of Archeology and Ethnology in Nanterre, Aline Emery-Barbier is a paleobotanist specializing in the study of plant micro-fossils  : pollen grains, phytoliths, non-pollenic palynomorphs, fibers and starch grains.

She contributed to archaeological work from the Pleistocene and Holocene periods in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Jordan for climatic reconstructions and a paleo-ethnobotanical approach.

In Egypt, after analyzing the sediments from the Predynastic site of Naqada, in 1990 she joined the team of Béatrix Midant-Reynes in Adaïma, then of Tell el-Iswid in 2006. At the same time  she studied sediments from the Abu Rawach and Balat sites.

With the exception of Naqada, the sites studied are missions of the French Institute of Oriental Archeology (IFAO) financially supported by the excavation commission of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE).

Since 2015, the work carried out in Egypt has been supplemented by the study of the Kadrouka site in Wadi el-Khowi in Sudan, a scheduled mission of the SFDAS.