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Cyrielle Mathias
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Dr. in Palaeolithic archaeology.
Stone tools & early Middle Palaeolithic. Postdoc fellow, UMR 7194 HNHP & CRFJ

C'est gravé dans la roche !
Pinned
"Lithic, Fauna: Let them Refit!" 🪨🦴🧩

► ► Call for Papers - Special Issue of JAS: Reports

Submission opening March 31!

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#Lithics #Fauna #Refits
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Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)

Deadline extented until November 30!

Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟

uispp2026.syskonf.pl

#UISPP2026
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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

#LithicTechnology
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Pigments and shells with drilled holes to be used as beads found with Châtelperronian stone tools in France suggest humans—or Neanderthals—were decorating themselves in the Middle Paleolithic, just as Homo sapiens were moving into Eurasia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🔥Our new paper is out!
@6rilviallet.bsky.social @loiclebreton.bsky.social

"Biface industries in southern France during the Middle Pleistocene: A mosaic of technical behaviours"

Historical Biology - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Biface industries in southern France during the middle Pleistocene: a mosaic of technical behaviours
Bifaces, emblematic Lower Palaeolithic tools, have been present in Eurasia for at least 1.7 Ma. These bifacially shaped tools are found over a vast spatio-temporal range and variable environmental ...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.

She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.

#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane

Photo: Marko Zlousic
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Back from a few weeks of intense work, from fieldwork in Albania to organising #ESHE2025 !
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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En Allemagne, il présenterait sa démission ce soir, mais nous sommes en France alors il a reprendre deux fois des pâtes en disant que Mediapart c'est rien que des fouilles merde anti France islamo-wokistes.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Sébastien Lecornu n’a jamais validé le diplôme de droit qu’il prétendait avoir
Confronté à une enquête de Mediapart, le cabinet du premier ministre reconnaît finalement que Sébastien Lecornu n’est pas diplômé d’un master de droit public. Selon plusieurs documents, lui ou ses éq…
www.mediapart.fr
September 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine?
August 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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First week of excavation at Coupe Gorge Cave - Montmaurin 🍃🦴

#fieldwork #excavation #middlepalaeolithic
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
First week of excavation at Coupe Gorge Cave - Montmaurin 🍃🦴

#fieldwork #excavation #middlepalaeolithic
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Photo Dump Antonègre Excavations 2025 🐐🦴🪨

Despite the difficulties, some nice discoveries with a great team!

With the support of DRAC Occitanie, Sète Agglopole, HNHP & LAMPEA Labs and Archéologies 🙏

#Palhérault #MiddlePaleolithic #Mousterian #fieldwork #archaeology
July 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our first days exploring Antonègre Cave! Conditions are really (really) tough, thanks to the amazing team 🫶🏼
July 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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📣 L’archéologie préventive sacrifiée au nom de l’agriculture intensive
Le mardi 8 juillet, l’Assemblée nationale n’a pas pris en compte l’amendement n°2243 de la loi Duplomb, qui visait à exclure l’archéologie préventive du régime contentieux dérogatoire de la nouvelle loi d’orientation agricole.
July 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Jérôme Ivorra, Grepam treasurer, is one of the co-authors of this article published in Palaeo Vertebrata 🔥🦴

The article provides a review of two palaeontological localities near Pézenas (Hérault), those of Le Riège and Saint-Palais.

Open access here: palaeovertebrata.com/articles/key...
June 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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⚠️ "100.000 morts à Gaza". Le journal israélien
@haaretzcom s'appuie sur l'analyse du Prof. Michael Spagat (Univ. de Londres @royalholloway.bsky.social, spécialiste des statistiques de morts violentes, Kosovo, Irak, Syrie):
Sources : www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🛑 NON à l’affaiblissement de l’archéologie préventive !

La nouvelle loi d’orientation agricole (LOA), adoptée en mars 2025, prévoit un régime juridique spécial (article 44) pour accélérer les projets agricoles controversés : méga-bassines, élevages industriels, etc.
June 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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La période des chantiers estivaux va bientôt commencer ! Nous vous partageons le travail nécessaire et indispensable de collègues archéologues et de diverses disciplines de SHS de l'université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès.
June 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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📣Job opening: funded PhD position 📣
Interested in Finale Paleolithic and Mesolithic lithic assemblages in the Belgian Meuse Valley and their evolution across time?
Apply before the 27th of June 2025 to be part of an interesting project! All information in the link below www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Doctoral fellow
www.ugent.be
June 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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ALT : détail graphique (assemblée) des voix exprimées pour le retrait de l'article 15bis C. Clairsemé pour sauf extreme droite qui vote contre l'archéologie.
June 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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L'article 15bis C vient d'être supprimé par adoption de l'amendement 2295.
June 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Archéologues en colère à Paris : «C’est catastrophique en matière de protection du patrimoine»

Ils se sont réunis ce jeudi sur la place de la République pour dénoncer les coupes budgétaires et les attaques successives du ministère de la Culture contre l’archéologie préventive
Archéologues en colère à Paris : «C’est catastrophique en matière de protection du patrimoine»
www.liberation.fr
June 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM