The objective of the Professor Jean-Jacques Comhaire Fund is to promote and facilitate the use of investigative methods used in the exact sciences (physics, chemistry, etc.) and computer science in the study of archaeological remains, thereby working as 'auxiliary sciences of history'. This methodology, known as archaeometry, focuses on the study of materials (support, pigment, etc.) and, thanks to an approach that starts from the exact sciences, enables new and broader aspects of a work to be questioned. Each of the range of sciences employed brings its own specificity to a better understanding of our past.
The fund launches two annual calls for projects, for project support on the one hand and the Jean-Jacques Comhaire Prize for a young researcher on the other. The fund focuses on analytical projects that not only contribute to the advancement of archaeometry research, but also to the preservation of major works of our heritage.
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