Laurent Bouby is a CNRS Research Engineer at Montpellier Institute of Evolution, in Montpellier University (France). His research work focuses on the history of agriculture and the exploitation of vegetal resources in the North-Western Mediterranean, since the last hunter-gatherers, based on the study of archaeological macroremains. His work is carried out along two main research axes:
- Dynamics of agro-pastoral systems in southern France, in relation with environmental, economic and cultural changes
- Origin and evolution of vine cultivation: grapevine domestication, diversity characterisation of archaeological cultivated vines
He also supervises the archaeobotanical platform at ISEM and participate as a teacher in the Master ‘Cépage’ (University Montpellier).