Olivia Munoz

@cnrs.fr

UMR 8215 "Trajectoires"

Olivia Munoz
I am an archaeo-anthropologist, specializing in the recent prehistory and protohistory of Arabia. I hold a PhD in Archaeology-Ethnology-Prehistory from the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD in Animal Biology from the Università di Roma La Sapienza, obtained in 2014, and I have been a CNRS research fellow since 2018. My research focuses on the evolution of ancient populations in constrained environments, through the reconstruction of their lifestyles and the study of their burial practices. I am particularly interested in the mechanisms of adaptations of coastal populations between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (6000-2000 BCE), and in the biocultural changes that accompany the development of oasis agriculture in Arabia (food, sanitary status, demography, sedentariness, social complexification,...).

EDUCATION

2014 PhD Anthropologie-Ethnologie-Préhistoire – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2014 PhD Biologie Animale – Università di Roma La Sapienza
PhD Thesis: « Pratiques funéraires et paramètres biologiques dans la péninsule d’Oman du Néolithique à la fin de l’âge du Bronze ancien (V-IIIe millénaires avant notre ère) » │ supervisors: Serge Cleuziou, Jean-Paul Demoule, Alfredo Coppa

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Archaeology, Biological anthropology, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Arabian peninsula
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Scholar Citations

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Scholar h-index

20

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Mortuary landscape during protohistory in the Arabian Peninsula
    M Bellat, T Guiet, T Beuzen-Waller, S Pébay-Peyroula, O Munoz
    CAA53rd It’s all about people , 2026
    2026
  • Dhabtiyah in context: Protohistoric Occupation and Monumentality in Northeastern Arabia (6th mill BC-1st mill. AD)
    O Munoz, A Alzahrani, K Rointru, TA da Cruz, D Ferreira, N Rogalski, ...
    Seminar for Arabian Studies , 2025
    2025
  • Modelling of the mid–late Holocene coastline variations of the Ras al-Jinz site (Sultanate of Oman) using UAV technology photogrammetry, electromagnetic survey, and sedimentary …
    J Lejot, JF Berger, A Barra, G Bruniaux, AP De Rorre, O Munoz, H Guy, ...
    Journal of Archaeological Science 184, 106408 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Explorer les liens sociaux à travers les pratiques mortuaires
    M Rivollat, D Castex, B Chamel, O Munoz, M Pruvost, H Réveillas, ...
    Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. BMSAP 37 (37 (2)) , 2025
    2025
  • Perles en coquille sur le site funéraire de Ra's al-Hadd HD-7. 3 à la période Hafit (sultanat d'Oman, ca. 3200-2700 av. n. è.): Approches malacologique, tracéologique et morpho …
    KH Anna, H Alarashi, C Mougne, O Munoz
    Parures de la mer. Table ronde de la Société Préhistorique Française , 2025
    2025
  • Le Projet ANR Arabiancairns: une approche intégrée des tombes monumentales protohistoriques dans la péninsule arabique
    O Munoz, TA da Cruz, M Bellat, TB Waller, M Cotty, R Crassard, ...
    Séminaire de recherche , 2025
    2025
  • The Arabiancairns project: a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to protohistoric monumental tombs in the Arabian Peninsula
    O Munoz, M Bellat, TB Waller, M Cotty, R Crassard, M Jean, R Mereuze, ...
    14th ICAANE , 2025
    2025
  • For a Perception of Monumentality in Eastern Arabia from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age: 3D Reconstruction and Multidimensional Simulations of Monuments and Landscapes
    TA Da Cruz, O Munoz, F Giligny, V Gouranton
    2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Dhabtiyah Archaeological Mission. Final report of activities, 2025 Campaign (October 16th–November 12th 2025)
    O Munoz, TA da Cruz, L Dantec, M Defours, D Ferreira, MP Maiorano, ...
    Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Etrangères-Commission consultative des … , 2025
    2025
  • French Saudi Archaeological Mission to Dhabityah. Preliminary report of activities of the 1st campaign (17/11/2024 to 14/12/2024)
    O Munoz
    Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères; Cnrs; Heritage Commission , 2024
    2024
  • Panorama de la communauté professionnelle en anthropologie biologique et archéo-anthropologie en France
    F Marchal, O Munoz, F Bocquentin, Y Ardagna, C Buquet, S Kacki, ...
    Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. BMSAP 36 (36 (2)) , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Early Bronze Age Agriculture in the Hajjar Foothills. insights into the oral health of the Bisya population (ca. 3000-2500 BCE, Oman)
    O Munoz, K Rointru
    Seminar for Arabian Studies , 2024
    2024
  • Funerary landscape, mortuary practices and bioanthropological studies in the Bisya Area ((Ad-Dākhilīyah Governorate, Sultanate of Oman). Report of the 2024 Campaign (11-26 …
    O Munoz
    CNRS UMR 8215; Ministry of Heritage and Tourism (Sultanate of Oman) , 2024
    2024
  • Bahla historic mosque. Report on the salvage excavation (2003) and bioanthropological study of the bone pit.
    O Munoz
    CNRS UMR 8215 Trajectoires; Ministry of Heritage and Tourism (Sultanate of Oman) , 2024
    2024
  • New insights on Bronze Age funerary monuments in the Ḥajar foothills: surveys and excavations at Bisya (Ad-Dākhilīyyah, Sultanate of Oman)
    O Munoz, K Rointru, M Jean, MP Pellegrino, C Renaux, M Laguardia, ...
    Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 53, 173-193 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Émergence de l’agriculture en Arabie du Sud-Est à l’âge du Bronze ancien: apports de l’analyse des conditions bucco-dentaires d’une population de Bisya (3000-2500 avant notre …
    O Munoz, K Rointru
    Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. BMSAP 36 (36 (S)) , 2024
    2024
  • The pan-Arabian c. 3000 BC monumental funerary complex
    O Munoz
    Seminar for Arabian Studies , 2023
    2023
  • Evolution of the funerary landscape and mortuary practices in the Hajar foothills during the Early Bronze Age: the case of the Bisya region (Sultanate of Oman)
    O Munoz, K Rointru, M Laguardia, M Cotty, PG Sanz, C Renaux, M Jean
    Seminar for Arabian Studies , 2023
    2023
  • First excavation campaign of the Saint-Belec tumulus (Leuhan, Finistere)
    C Nicolas, Y Pailler, L Aubry, TH Freiesleben, C Galinand, G Guerin, ...
    Bulletin De La Societe Prehistorique Francaise 120 (1), 65-69 , 2023
    2023
  • Ra’s al-Hadd HD-7 necropolis, Ash Sharqiyah Governorate, Oman
    O Munoz, G Seguin
    Landscapes of Death. Early Bronze Age Tombs and Mortuary Rituals on the Oman … , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent
    F Broushaki, MG Thomas, V Link, S López, L Van Dorp, K Kirsanow, ...
    Science 353 (6298), 499-503 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 429
  • The microscopic (optical and SEM) examination of dental calculus deposits (DCD). Potential interest in forensic anthropology of a bio-archaeological method
    P Charlier, I Huynh-Charlier, O Munoz, M Billard, L Brun, ...
    Legal Medicine 12 (4), 163-171 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 84
  • Diet and mobility in a late Neolithic population of coastal Oman inferred from radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis
    A Zazzo, O Munoz, JF Saliège
    American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153 (3), 353-364 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 61
  • Life and death in prehistoric Oman: Insights from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age funerary practices (4th-3rd mill. BC)
    E Bortolini, O Munoz
    The Archaeological Heritage of Oman, Proceedings of the symposium held at … , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 47
  • Transition to agriculture in South‐Eastern Arabia: Insights from oral conditions
    O Munoz
    American Journal of Physical Anthropology 164 (4), 702-719 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 46
  • A revised radiocarbon chronology of the aceramic shell midden of Ra’s Al-Hamra 6 (Muscat, Sultanate of Oman): implication for occupational sequence, marine reservoir age, and …
    A Zazzo, O Munoz, E Badel, I Béguier, F Genchi, LG Marcucci
    Radiocarbon 58 (2), 383-395 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 42
  • Marking the sacral landscape of a north Arabian oasis: a sixth-millennium BC monumental stone platform and surrounding burials
    O Munoz, M Cotty, G Charloux, C Bouchaud, H Monchot, C Marquaire, ...
    Antiquity 94 (375), 601-621 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 40
  • Excavations at Raʾs al-Jinz RJ-1: stratigraphy without tells
    C Monchablon, R Crassard, O Munoz, H Guy, G Bruley-Chabot, ...
    Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 31-47 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 37
  • Variability in the marine radiocarbon reservoir effect in Muscat (Sultanate of Oman) during the 4th millennium BC: reflection of taphonomy or environment?
    A Zazzo, O Munoz, JF Saliège, C Moreau
    Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (7), 2559-2567 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 32
  • Settlement structures and cemetery at Wadi Shab‐GAS1, Sultanate of Oman: Report on the 2002 and 2003 field seasons
    M Gaultier, H Guy, O Munoz, M Tosi, D Usai
    Arabian archaeology and Epigraphy 16 (1), 1-20 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 30
  • Promoting group identity and equality by merging the dead
    O Munoz, DW Kimberly, AG Lesley
    Mortuary and bioarchaeological perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia, 21-40 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 27
  • Use of ossuary pits during the Umm an-Nar period: New insights on the complexity of burial practices from the site of Ra’s al-Jinz (RJ-1), Oman
    O Munoz, RO Ghazal, H Guy
    J. Giraud et G. Gernez (éd.), Aux marges de l’archéologie. Hommage à Serge … , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 26
  • Les morts en société: une interprétation des sépultures collectives d'Oman à l'Age du Bronze
    S Cleuziou
    Pratiques funéraires et sociétés: Nouvelles approches en archéologie et en … , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 26
  • Pratiques funéraires et paramètres biologiques dans la péninsule d'Oman du Néolithique à la fin de l'âge du Bronze ancien (Ve-IIIè millénaires av. notre ère)
    O Munoz
    Université de Paris 1–Panthéon-Sorbonne; Universita di Roma" La Sapienza" , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 22
  • First contribution of the excavation and chronostratigraphic study of the Ruways 1 Neolithic shell midden (Oman) in terms of Neolithisation, palaeoeconomy, social‐environmental …
    JF Berger, R Guilbert‐Berger, A Marrast, O Munoz, H Guy, A Barra, ...
    Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 31 (1), 32-49 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 20
  • New investigations at the prehistoric shell midden of Ra's al-Hamra 6 (Sultanate of Oman): results of the 2012 and 2013 excavation seasons
    LG Marcucci, É Badel, F Genchi, O Munoz, A Todero, M Tosi
    Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 235-255 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 18
  • Protohistoric cairns and tower tombs in south-eastern Arabia (end of the 4th-beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE)
    O Munoz, L Laporte, JM Large
    L. Laporte et J.-M. Barge (éd.), Megaliths of the world 2, 303-318 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 12
  • La «fabrique des ancêtres». Complexification sociale et sépultures collectives dans la péninsule d'Oman à l'âge du Bronze ancien
    O Munoz
    Le funéraire. Mémoire, protocoles, monuments 11, 255-265 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 11
  • Les restes humains de SHM-1 (campagnes 2002-2007): étude archéo-anthropologique
    O Munoz, F Candilio, S Roudesli-Chebbi
    Le capsien de Hergla (Tunisie). Culture, environnement et économie 4, 299-314 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 11
  • The burials of the middle Holocene settlement of KHB-1 (Ra’s al-Khabbah, Sultanate of Oman)
    O Munoz, S Scaruffi, F Cavulli
    Death and Burial in Arabia and Beyond Multidisciplinary perspectives … , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 11