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Although fire is ubiquitous among humans and it appears to have been so for at least hundreds of thousands of years, its study as an artifact is relatively recent due to its sedimentary nature. Archaeologists are only now beginning to properly document and sample combustion residues for their study as artifacts and to realize their potential as sinks of behavioral information. Thus,nowadays archaeological combustion features are analyzed at different scales using a variety of techniques to explore their spatial distribution, formation and composition. As a result, we are beginning to document functional, technological and other behavioral aspects of fire in archaeological hunter-gatherer contexts from different regions and time periods. As we advance in this direction, it is important to assess the potential of ethnoarchaeological investigations as important sources of analogy to approach anthropogenic fire. Thus, it appears necessary to expand the ethnoarchaeological analytic methodology toward the documentation of traditional fire-related behavior in ways that are comparable to the archaeological sedimentary record.The aim of the meeting “Ethnoarchaeology of Fire” is to offer an open space for discussion and exchange, under the form of invited lectures, poster presentations and general discussions. We willpresent case studies and lay out the main avenues of ethnoarchaeological research that is currently being carried out relating to anthropogenic fire. Ethnoarchaeological case-studies on anthropogenic fire in subarctic and tropical environments will address different questions such as quantitative aspects of fire management, seasonality, site-formation processes, and fuel and heat use through the lens of different analytical methods (microparticles and macroremains, stable isotopes, organicchemistry, microstratigraphy and micromorphology).In addition to our invited guest lectures, we will include several poster sessions illustrative of current research on the topic of anthropogenic fire in ethnographic/archaeological contextsworldwide. The call for posters is now open for anyone willing to present their work in one of three sessions (described in the next page): 1) “Anthropogenic fire in the ethnographic record”, 2) “Archaeology of fire” and 3) “Hunter-gatherer ethnoarchaeology and fire”. During the poster sessions, each participant will have a time slot of 5-10 minutes to do a formal presentation of his/herwork.Discussion sessions will be open to all attending the meeting. We invite participants to volunteer as moderators and propose discussion topics.Registration is free for all participants and assistants. To register, please fill in the attached form and send it to: aureade.henry@cepam.cnrs.fr avant le 15 décembre.BrochureFormule d'inscription