France: Computer research in archaeology threatened by the CNRS. Statement of the CAA-FR Since the beginning of the summer, several joint research units (UMRs) in the humanities and social sciences are threatened with closure due to the withdrawal of the CNRS as their supervisory body. The CAA-FR contests the CNRS management’s policy of differentiating between and creating competition among its own research units. This strategy of concentrating resources in a small number of units demonstrates a lack of long-term vision and an ignorance of the insights from social and historical study of scientific activities. It also shows a blind disregard for the consequences of these reforms, which can be seen in the research systems in countries where they were implemented earlier, such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Australia. [...] The CAA-FR is a research network dedicated to developing computational and quantitative methods in archaeology in France. As such, CAA-FR is deeply concerned about the threat to the “CITERES‘” research unit in Tours, which is one of the few laboratories in France where work has been conducted for decades at the intersection of archaeology, computer science, and mathematics. More broadly, the CAA-FR expresses its solidarity with, and support for, the research teams and staff who are suffering of the CNRS management’s brutal strategy. The CAA-FR also calls on all research collectives to protest against this strategy.