New paper out with @lucdoyon.bsky.social At Niupodong Cave (SW China), bone tools, beads, document technological innovation, long-distance social networks (>600 km) during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition link.springer.com/article/10.1... @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Cultural and social innovations in southwestern China during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

The Pleistocene-Holocene transition witnessed diverse pathways to socio-economic complexity globally. In contrast to the agricultural trajectories, communities in the karst landscapes of southwestern ...

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🧪 Fashion is at the heart of economic, social, and environmental issues, several countries are seeking to regulate ultra-fast fashion practices. Yet when did the first fashions emerge? shorturl.at/veUgl with F. d'Errico @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

The Origins of Fashion

This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep-time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily di....

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🧪Heading to shorturl.at/Uaq0d at the Collège de France. Members of the extended @pacea.bsky.social family in the program, N.Zwyns, T.Tsanova, J.Henrion @mariesoressi.bsky.social I’ll speak about beads and networks during the Mid/UP transition @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Du Paléolithique moyen au Paléolithique supérieur : la transition en question | Collège de France

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Cette semaine, j'ai le plaisir de coorganiser, pour le département @deptse-ub.bsky.social et avec le département Sciences archéologiques (@solangerigaud.bsky.social) une résidence d'écriture dédiée à la vulgarisation scientifique en plein milieu de la Dordogne. En plus, il y a @astropierre.com !

Sciences de l'environnement - univBordeaux@deptse-ub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Eyzies-de-Tayac, 5 minutes d'arrêt 🦣🚉 La capitale de la préhistoire fait office de terminus pour les 7 doctorantes participant au Huis clos Bordes de l' @univbordeaux.bsky.social, résidence d'écriture vulgarisée, animée par deux vulgarisateur.ice de talent : Delphine Charles et @astropierre.com !

3 weeks working in Hokkaido to document Upper Paleolithic stone beads of Northern Japan with colleagues from Tokyo Metropolitan University and @alainqueffelec.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory@pacea.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🇫🇷 🇯🇵 Already making headlines exploring the Paleolithic personal ornaments & lithic production of Hokkaido! @solangerigaud.bsky.social, N. Zwyns, @alainqueffelec.bsky.social (@univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social), & Masami Izuho (TMU). www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/article/1305...

🧪Just out in open access! Our collaborative article “Combe-Cullier (Lacave, Lot): an exceptional Magdalenian sequence on the riverbanks of the Dordogne” is now published journals.openedition.org/galliap/5457 @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

🧵 1/5 End of a fruitful week in Sofia & Dryanovo 🇧🇬 for the UISPP Commission 8 meeting “Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia”, focused on “The Origin and Development of the Eurasian Initial Upper Palaeolithic.” More info 👉 www.uispp.net/en/commissio...

Pleased to share my latest article Beads of shells and teeth from Abri Murat (Rocamadour, Lot) reveal long-distance networks linking Atlantic, Mediterranean, and inland groups 15,000+ years ago @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

#PressRelease 🗞️ The oldest workshop for making shell jewellery has been unearthed at the Palaeolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot. 🐚 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/old...

🐚 The littorina, characterized by a wide range of natural colors when fresh, originate from the Atlantic coast, situated about 100 km away from La Roche-à-Pierrot at the time of the occupation (7/20)

🐚 🔬Microscopic analyses by @solangerigaud.bsky.social revealed that perforated shells show no wear, and pigment staining comes from nearby hematite. With 14 intact shells, little/no wear, and high fragmentation, the evidence supports a shell ornament workshop (8/20)

🧪New in the PNAS with @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social shorturl.at/JDZYs We report a shell-bead workshop at Saint-Césaire (Fr) and suggest that Châtelperronian makers were influenced by, or part of, an early wave of H. sapiens in the region 42ka @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Châtelperronian cultural diversity at its western limits: Shell beads and pigments from La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire | PNAS

The timing and mechanisms underlying the gradual replacement of Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens groups have elicited heated debate for deca...

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🧪Saint-Césaire annual fieldwork led by I. Crevecoeur. A key site to debates on the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition. I’m reassessing the Upper Paleo artefacts as part of my Threads project @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social

Excited to welcome Céline, a Master's student from ULiège, for a training stay at @pacea.bsky.social with me, Biba Hromodova and @lucdoyon.bsky.social ! Her project deals with ivory industry from Goyet & Spy. @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Last week’s interdisciplinary residency at Maison Bordes, Les Eyzies, with PhD students & postdocs from Sci Archéo & Environnement. Great practice in non-specialist writing & reflecting on societal relevance. River swims & a ride back to Bordeaux! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Just out! we challenge the long-standing tradition of defining Upper Paleolithic cultures primarily through stone tool artefacts. Instead, we turn to personal ornaments to explore cultural identities during the past shorturl.at/8mxKe @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Multivariate analyses of Aurignacian and Gravettian personal ornaments support cultural continuity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic

Traditionally, lithic artefacts have served as the principal proxy for the definition of archaeological cultures in the Upper Paleolithic. However, the culture-historical framework in use, constructed...

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🧪Train + 90 km ride to Tourtoirac! Excavations led by @lucdoyon.bsky.social serve as a field school for @univbordeaux.bsky.social MA students. more : shorturl.at/ISf4r Neanderthal remains, Gravettian ornaments—now part of my Threads project @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🚨 Join the PACEA Laboratory! The CNRS @cnrsecologie.bsky.social is recruiting a senior postdoc (3 to 6-year contract) to work on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments. This is part of a long-term strategy and may lead to a permanent full-time research position emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...

From the field in Cyprus: traditional tribulum at our host’s place. This was a common threshing tool in Mediterranean agriculture until recently. Flint flakes and cores to produce them frequently found during surveys with @umr5608traces.bsky.social @nxcco.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

At the Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, exploring how Azilian foragers adorned their bodies 14ky ago. Convenient stay at La Maison Bordes @univbordeaux.bsky.social facility welcoming scholars from around the world for over 30 years, right across from the museum @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

At the MNHN Paris for a day honoring Jean-Denis Vigne and his immense impact on modern bioarchaeology A flute of champagne in the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution—the perfect way to end such a day! Recent publication on the PPN in Cyprus books.openedition.org/editionscnrs... @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

For the past 3 days, I’ve been at the Fyssen with @mariesoressi.bsky.social invited to speak on cooperation in human evolution—alongside archaeologists, primatologists & philosophers. I discuss how did innovation, identity & otherness shape us @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🧪@standupforscience.bsky.social Our colleague @teyssand31.bsky.social explain how alarming Trump's revisionism is. Attack on the Smithsonian is part of broad strategy to weaken education and the sharing of scientific knowledge shorturl.at/YvVzU @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Smithsonian attaquée par Trump

Les Musées de la Smithsonian Institution visés par une attaque de Trump et menacés de se voir privés de financement s’ils ne se plient pas à l’idéologie raciste du Président des USA.

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Aujourd'hui la journée NeoAquitaine sur le thème des ressources avec plusieurs collègues de @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @solangerigaud.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

🧪Great discussions with colleagues from Nice Univ and abroad @emmabaysal.bsky.social Happy to present at SPF meeting the long and complex history of body ornamentation, key to understanding identities, social ties, and evolution @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

🧪1/2 Here’s a sample of words flagged by US agencies for restriction/avoidance, according to government documents as Trump seeks to purge the federal government of progressive initiatives. Archaeology has never been so disruptive! shorturl.at/dka55 #sciencenotsilence @standupforscience.bsky.social

The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

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The end of a fruitful week in Halle (Saale, Germany) with colleagues from the Landesmuseum, studying ornaments for my THREADS project @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social and bone tools with L. Doyon for his ERC ExOsTech research. Exciting insights @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Luc Doyon@lucdoyon.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, we are in Halle (Saale) at the @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social to study bone tools and ornaments with Jörg, Arev, @marcel-weiss.bsky.social, @solangerigaud.bsky.social, @cedric-beauval.bsky.social… #ERC_StG ExOsTech @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

L'université de Bordeaux s’associe au mouvement Stand up For Science, qui alerte sur l’offensive aux États-Unis contre les institutions de la recherche, et invite ses communautés scientifiques à exprimer leur soutien à l’occasion du mouvement du 07/03 - + d'informations : standupforscience.fr...

🧪 A week in Kraków studying over 120 mammal tooth pendants from the Borshuka child burial (~31 ka) with colleagues from the Polish Acad. of Sci. and B. Hromadova (postdoc @pacea.bsky.social threads project @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social) @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Registrations "Digital Archaeology" Summer School! June 30 – July 5, 2025 @univbordeaux.bsky.social hands-on introduction to Photogrammetry 3D modeling Geometric morphometrics Surface roughness quantification Epigraphic data & AI tools. limited seats—don’t miss this opportunity! shorturl.at/vjwM7

Ecole d'été/Summer school

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