TheMaison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée (orMOM) is a research body inLyon,France, that specialises in theMediterranean and theMiddle East and the first steps of humanity. It is dedicated to its founder, historianJean Pouilloux.[1]
Anne Schmitt,CNRS, took over directorship from Rémy Boucharlat on 1 January 2011 and conducts research programs within theArchéométrie et archéologie laboratory - UMR 5138 of the MOM. Nathalie Donjon has served as secretary general since 2007, after being recruited in 1988 and attached to theCNRS research administration.[2]
Founded in 1975, MOM's activity has been characterised by a multidisciplinary working approach. It employs 350 people includingarchaeologists,epigraphists, historians, with the help ofphysicists,chemists andgeologists. Geographers, political scientists and architects are also part of the team. MOM is classed as a research federation involving five joint research units (UMR) ofCNRS and two other university teams. This federation is linked to theLumière University Lyon 2 and is especially concerned with historico-morphological studies.[3] MOM has also created an online application, an atlas of near east archaeological sites 14000 to 5700BP, presenting work by a large number of archaeologists.[4][5]
