Sylvie Duchesne

Biography

With archaeological training, she specialized in anthropology at the University of Bordeaux and later at the University of Toulouse, where she obtained a PhD on cultural diffusion based on funerary practices. An anthropologist for nearly 20 years, she has been actively engaged in both fieldwork and anthropological studies, both in France and abroad, spanning from the Neolithic to the modern era. Her primary interests revolve around disability in past societies, the mobility of goods and people, the organization of cemeteries, and the dissemination of culture.