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Differential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia) - Journal of Archa... Several syn and post-depositional processes are responsible for different degrees of site and assemblage formation and disturbance. Understanding the processes that lead to archaeological site formati...

Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

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Doctorant·e·s, ATER, chercheur·e·s, personnels Inrap, membres associés : ils et elles ont rejoint le laboratoire en 2025

Nous leur souhaitons la bienvenue et vous invitons à découvrir leurs visages, leurs recherches et leurs missions

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Interested in Cores-on-Flakes and Splits?

Our new paper is finally online, and open-access!

►►► "The use of splits and flakes as blanks for debitage or shaping: examples from the late Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Southern France" journals.openedition.org//paleo/10157

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The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka - Journal of World Prehistory The world at 18,000 BP, published by Gamble and Soffer (The world at 18,000 BP. Vol. 2: low latitude, Unwin Hyman, 1990), represents the first, and so far the only, attempt at characterising and discussing the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on human societies on a global scale. At the time, they highlighted that research and data on the LGM in southern latitudes and the tropics in particular were scant. Since 1990, however, many sites dated to the LGM and located in tropical latitudes have been published. Many paradigms have changed regarding the peopling of the Americas, which allows the archaeology of this continent to be integrated into global scale studies of the LGM. The development of Pleistocene archaeology in tropical contexts, in parallel with methodological advances in cultural, geosciences and palaeoenvironmental studies have strongly reshaped what we know of the antiquity of human occupation in tropical regions and specific human–environment interactions. This article provides for the first time a pan-tropical perspective on the impact of the LGM on human groups living within the tropical latitudes, drawing from case studies in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, specifically regions which have up until now never been discussed together. To this end, we focus on six different tropical regions between 30 and 10 ka. We present the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data available in these areas, along with proposed relationships for variations in these two records. Finally, we discuss at the regional scale the presence or absence of human changes (site density and techno-cultural change or continuity) before, during and immediately after the LGM.

📣New paper alert

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How did populations in tropical regions cope with the global climatic change around the LGM?

While the tropics are often perceived as having been less impacted by the LGM, we show that -as is often the case - it is more complex than it seems!

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BREATHE BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara The project'...

Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.

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My largest Exp Levallois so far

15 ka old evidence of pressure flaking in the Congo basin, Democratic Republic of Congo We analyze two technically sophisticated stone points dated between 15,580 and 14,319 cal. BP discovered at the open-air site of Mitshakila, Democrati…

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Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies #openscience #archaeology #3DGM @icarehb.bsky.social @jmcascalheira.bsky.social

3D scan of Exp prepared core on Angolan quartz

Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests New research shows that humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago. This is more than twice as early than previously thought.

Thanks a lot @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social for supporting our work!

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Check out our last project gallery if you want to know more about our Sidi Zin Project ! Thanks @antiquityj.bsky.social !

Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia

I am so thrilled to share with you this project gallery published today on @antiquityj.bsky.social summarizing our research led by me and N. Aouadi in central Tunisia. We present here the first results of our project to study Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in this little-known part of North Africa!

Heureux de cette nouvelle parution portant sur l’étude technologique de l’assemblage lithique du site de Doi Pha Kan (Thaïlande du Nord) et de sa place au sein du phénomène Hoabinhien @mnhn.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social @universitetoulouse.bsky.social

Bravo à @adelechevalier.bsky.social lauréate du 17e prix Leroi-Gourhan de la Société des amis du musée de l'Homme qui lui a été remis ce matin au Musée de l'Homme pour sa thèse de #muséologie des sciences @recherche.mnhn.fr @ihmc.bsky.social

Something special for the lithophiles for #FlintFriday and #FieldFriday - two ends of the Levallois spectrum from my survey yesterday in Luxor. I’ve never seen anything quite like either of them 🤩

Quartzite convergent scraper

#FlintFriday in Luxor

Palaeolithic excavation with the logo of the GREPAM association.

The GREPAM (Groupe de Recherche et d'Etude du Patrimoine Archéologique Méditerranéen ) launches his bluesky account!

Here you can follow our latest news on archaeological research, mainly prehistoric 🦣💀🦴🦌🪨, in the South of France!

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Geographical location of the MSA sites presented and discussed in this work and Bargny 1 and 3 sequences. a: Location of the sites at west African scale and at b: regional scale; c: Location of Bargny sequences; d: View of the main sections of Bargny 3 without and with the OSL-ESR samples; e. Plan of Bargny 3 presenting the location of the dating samples in this work; f: Example of MSA artifacts from Unit 5 of Bargny 3; g: Stratigraphic sections of Bargny 1 and 3, and associated dating results. Data in (a-c) from ALOS (JAXA), GEBCO 2023 Grid, WorldClim 2.1 (bio12; Fick et al., 2017), and WWF (Dinerstein et al., 2017, Olson et al., 2001).

Diversity by Africa’s coast

Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach 🏺🧪
E. Ben Arous @eslembenarous.bsky.social mbenarous.bsky.social , E. Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social y.social et al
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North African MSA bifacial piece