Mathias Bellat
Address:
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Soil Science and Geomorphology
Rümelinstraße 19-23
D-72070 Tübingen
Office: Westbau W302
Consulting hours:
by arrangement
Function: Doctoral student
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Academia: https://uni-tuebingen.academia.edu/MathiasBellat
Research Topics:
- Archaeological sciences
- Machine Learning in Archaeology
- Geoarchaeology
- Remote sensing
- NIR-MIR for soil sciences
- Micromorphology in archaeology
Regions:
- Iraqi Kurdistan
- Southern Caucasus
- Yvelines (France)
Projects:
- SFB 1070 ResourceCultures, phase 3, “B07 - A hunt for raw materials? Spatial Models in the Resource Cultures of the Northern Mesopotamian Periphery?
- ANR-DFG project: From Kura-Araxes to Early Kurgans. Tracing 3rd millennium social and cultural changes in the Kura river valley (Georgia and Azerbaijan). Environment, food, chronology
CV:
27th July 1998 in Paris (France)
Work Experience:
| Since 09/2021 | PhD. student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany |
| Since 2019 | Director of archaeological excavation at "Prieuré des Moulineaux", Yvelines, France |
Education:
| Since 09/2021 | PhD. student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 2019 - 2021 | Studies Of Ecology Biodiversity and Evolution [M.Sc.], Speciality Quaternary, Prehistory and Bioarchaeology at Museum National d’Histoire Naturel (France) Master-Thesis : “The micromorphology contribution to the study of construction technics and their diffusion during Neolithic, the case of Mentesh Tepe (Middle Kura valley, Azerbaijan)” |
| 09/2020 - 03/2021 | Erasmus at Frei Universität Berlin in the Ancient Near East Studies Department, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 - 2019 | Studies of Geography [B.Sc.] at Sorbonne University (France) |
| 2016 - 2019 | Studies of Archaeology and Art History [B.Sc.] at Sorbonne University (France) |
Internships:
02/2020 to 06/2020 : Micromorphology at AgroParisTech, INRAP, Dr. Cécilia Cammas, Thiverval-Grignon, France.
Memberships :
- CAA Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology https://caa-international.org/
- AFEQ Association Française pour l’Etude du Quaternaire https://afeq.hypotheses.org/ [French Society for the Study of Quaternary]
- Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Geomorphologie https://www.ak-geomorphologie.de/ [German Working Group Geomorphology]
- INQUA International Union for Quaternary Research https://www.inqua.org/
- EAA European Association of Archaeologists https://www.e-a-a.org/
Field Experience:
- Selevani plain, Kurdistan Iraq (Soil survey) since 2022
- Prieuré des Moulineaux, France (Archaeological Excavation) since 2019
- Qaraçinar Azerbaijan (Archaeological Excavation) 2021 - 2022
- Kütltepe Azerbaijan (Archaeological excavation and survey) 2021
- Dinard, France (Costal geography) 2019
- Argos, Greece (Geoarchaeological prospect) 2019
- Orange, France (Archaeological Excavation) 2018
- Bessan, France (Archaeological Excavation) 2017 - 2018
- Murviel-Lèz-Montpellier, France (Archaeological Excavation) 2018
- Olonzac, France (Archaeological Excavation) 2017
Teaching (since 2022):
M.Sc.
- Exercises: "Soils and Geomorphology" (GEO 77)
B.Sc.
- Exercices: "Statistics" (GEO 25)
Supervision
- M.Sc. Annaelle Genneret, together with V. Capazzoli and A. Nissen, in Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris, France) on "Traces médiévales et moderne du bâti au prieuré des Moulineaux", (2021 - 2022)
Formation
- Thin sections fabrication for doctoral and PostDoc students (OMEA, Lyon), (2023)
Publications
2023
Bellat, M., Baudouin, E., Cammas, C., Lyonnet, B. (2023): New insights into the Neolithic architecture of the Southern Caucasus: A micromorphological case-study from Mentesh Tepe (middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan). In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Jg. 49, S. 103971. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103971
Conference Contributions and Proceedings:
2023
Bellat, M., Litzenberg, R., Rebentish A., Conard, A., Floss, H., Scholten, T. (2023): ResourceCultures a new tool for understanding the development and expansion of resource uses and access through time, 29th EAA Annual Meeting, Belfast 30 August - 2 September 2023, Session 560, Investigating past human mobilities through natural resources exploitation: latest results and developments [Session co-hoster and talk].
Bellat, M., Glissmann, B., Taghizadeh, R., Rentschler, T., Sconzo, P., Pfälzner, P., Scholten, T. (2023): From site observation to regional interpretation, the influence of multi-scalar approach on soil properties and their archaeological implication: Kurdistan (Iraq), XXI INQUA Congress 2023, 13-20 July 2023 [Talk].
Bellat, M., Glissmann, B., Taghizadeh, R., Rentschler, T., Sconzo, P., Pfälzner, P., Scholten, T. (2023): Can soil information add value for the archaeological predictive model?, ICAANE 2023, Copenhagen 22-26 May 2023, [Talk].
Bellat, M., Glissmann, B., Taghizadeh, R., Rentschler, T., Sconzo, P., Pfälzner, P., Scholten, T. (2023): Spatial soil information as a proxy for archaeological predictive modelling in arid regions: the Selevani plain example (Kurdistan, Iraq), CAA 2023, Amsterdam 03 - 06 April 2023 [Poster]
2022
Bellat, M., Glissmann, B., Rentschler, T., Schmidt, K., Sconzo, P., Pfälzner, P., Scholten, T. (2022): Unraveling archaeological settlement, landscape, and resource use patterns with machine learning in Kurdistan (Iraq), EGU 2022, Vienna 23-27 May 2022, [Conference talk].
Bellat, M., Glissmann, B., Rentschler T., Sconzo, P., Pfälzner, P., Scholten, T. (2022): What does matter? Machine Learning models to define archaeological patterns of site occupations and resource use in Kurdistan (Iraq) through a diachronic approach, Q13 International conference, Strasbourg 14 - 18 Mars 2022, [Poster].
2021
Bellat, M., Baudouin, E., Cammas, C. (2021): A Matter of Scale! Field Observations and Micromorphological Analyses on Earthen Materials at Mentesh Tepe (Azerbaijan) in the Neolithic Period, EAA 2021 – Kiel, Session 496, A world of clay I, 10 September 2021 [Talk].