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Benoît BERARD

Coordinator of the Bachelor History

Université des Antilles et de la Guyane
Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Département d'Histoire
B.P. 7207
F – 97275 Schœlcher CEDEX

Email: bberard@martinique.univ-ag.fr
Office contact +596 5 96 72 74 76

Teaching and research interests

My research deals mainly with the socio-economic mechanisms of migration of the first agro-ceramist groups of the Antillean archipelago during the second half of the first millenium BCE. I have also published different studies from a wider chronological context on flint-knapping technology in the Precolumbian Caribbean. Moreover I have worked on various paleo-geographical questions.

Courses

• U. P. HIS-MAS 5.1 – Archaeology and heritage in the Caribbean

  Non-written sources of Antillean history and heritage

• S.U.O. Hominization and the birth of symbolic thinking

  Hominization and the birth of symbolic thinking

• U. C. L. ISS-HJIS 2 – Introduction to archaeology

  Introduction to Precolumbian America

Principal publications

• BERARD B. and VIDAL N. (2003). Essai de géographie amérindienne de la Martinique. Actes du XIX^ème congrès International d’Archéologie de la Caraïbe, Aruba 22-28 juillet 2001, AIAC, Publication of the Museo Archeologico Arube, Vol.9, The Government of Aruba, Volume I, pp. 22-35.

• BERARD B. (2004). Les premières occupations agricoles de l’Arc Antillais, Migrations et insularité. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1299, Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 15, E. Taladoire (ed.), Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004. 214p., 140 fig., 38 tabl.

• BERARD B. (2004). Caraïbes et Arawaks, caractérisation culturelle et identification ethnique. in C. Celma (dir.), Les civilisations amérindiennes des Petites Antilles. Musée Départemental d’Archéologie Précolombienne, Conseil Général de la Martinique, Fort-de-France, 2004. pp. 3-20.

• BERARD B. (forthcoming). Lithic technology, one of the ways to complexity for Caribbean archaeology, in Hofman C., van Gijn A. and Hoogland M. (ed.), New methods and techniques in the study of material culture in the Caribbean, Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory series, University of Alabama Press.

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