Solange Rigaud
@solangerigaud.bsky.social
Researcher @CNRS @univbordeaux
and @PACEA_Bordeaux
#HumanEvolution #archaeology #shell #anthropology #bead
and @PACEA_Bordeaux
#HumanEvolution #archaeology #shell #anthropology #bead
🧪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
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
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🧪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
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
5/5
📸 Random photos: visit to Bacho Kiro Cave, and team shots celebrating 30 years of collaboration between Bulgaria and PACEA.
📸 Random photos: visit to Bacho Kiro Cave, and team shots celebrating 30 years of collaboration between Bulgaria and PACEA.
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
5/5
📸 Random photos: visit to Bacho Kiro Cave, and team shots celebrating 30 years of collaboration between Bulgaria and PACEA.
📸 Random photos: visit to Bacho Kiro Cave, and team shots celebrating 30 years of collaboration between Bulgaria and PACEA.
4/5
The event brought together researchers from 14 nationalities, from Europe to Japan, through Central Asia and the Near East.
It concluded on a moving note as L. Iakovleva (Kyiv) reminded us of the challenges of doing science amid geopolitical turmoil — ending with a heartfelt “Vive la paix!” 🇫🇷🕊️
The event brought together researchers from 14 nationalities, from Europe to Japan, through Central Asia and the Near East.
It concluded on a moving note as L. Iakovleva (Kyiv) reminded us of the challenges of doing science amid geopolitical turmoil — ending with a heartfelt “Vive la paix!” 🇫🇷🕊️
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
4/5
The event brought together researchers from 14 nationalities, from Europe to Japan, through Central Asia and the Near East.
It concluded on a moving note as L. Iakovleva (Kyiv) reminded us of the challenges of doing science amid geopolitical turmoil — ending with a heartfelt “Vive la paix!” 🇫🇷🕊️
The event brought together researchers from 14 nationalities, from Europe to Japan, through Central Asia and the Near East.
It concluded on a moving note as L. Iakovleva (Kyiv) reminded us of the challenges of doing science amid geopolitical turmoil — ending with a heartfelt “Vive la paix!” 🇫🇷🕊️
3/5
This inspiring meeting, supported by the GPR Human Past and my project Threads, was initiated by our dear colleague T. Tsanova, a former PACEA PhD student.
It celebrated her rediscovery of Bacho Kiro Cave and her findings showing H. sapiens in SE Europe 45 ka ago.
This inspiring meeting, supported by the GPR Human Past and my project Threads, was initiated by our dear colleague T. Tsanova, a former PACEA PhD student.
It celebrated her rediscovery of Bacho Kiro Cave and her findings showing H. sapiens in SE Europe 45 ka ago.
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
3/5
This inspiring meeting, supported by the GPR Human Past and my project Threads, was initiated by our dear colleague T. Tsanova, a former PACEA PhD student.
It celebrated her rediscovery of Bacho Kiro Cave and her findings showing H. sapiens in SE Europe 45 ka ago.
This inspiring meeting, supported by the GPR Human Past and my project Threads, was initiated by our dear colleague T. Tsanova, a former PACEA PhD student.
It celebrated her rediscovery of Bacho Kiro Cave and her findings showing H. sapiens in SE Europe 45 ka ago.
With @lucdoyon.bsky.social , we discussed how beads and bone tool technology can help trace the dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia.
Our colleague N. Zwyns (PACEA) shared new insights on the IUP in mainland Asia (~45 ka), and P. Zhang (PACEA) presented on stone tool tech in China MIS 3.
Our colleague N. Zwyns (PACEA) shared new insights on the IUP in mainland Asia (~45 ka), and P. Zhang (PACEA) presented on stone tool tech in China MIS 3.
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
With @lucdoyon.bsky.social , we discussed how beads and bone tool technology can help trace the dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia.
Our colleague N. Zwyns (PACEA) shared new insights on the IUP in mainland Asia (~45 ka), and P. Zhang (PACEA) presented on stone tool tech in China MIS 3.
Our colleague N. Zwyns (PACEA) shared new insights on the IUP in mainland Asia (~45 ka), and P. Zhang (PACEA) presented on stone tool tech in China MIS 3.
🧵 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...
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...
Workshop ‘Origin and Development of the Eurasian Initial Upper Palaeolithic'
15–17 October 2025, Dryanovo, Bulgaria
www.uispp.net
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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...
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
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
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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
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
Reposted by Solange Rigaud
#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...
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/old...
September 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#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...
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/old...
Reposted by Solange Rigaud
🐚 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)
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🐚 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)
Reposted by Solange Rigaud
🐚 🔬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)
September 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🐚 🔬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
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...
doi.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
🧪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
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
🧪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
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
July 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🧪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
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
July 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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
June 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
shorturl.at
June 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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
🧪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
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
June 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
🧪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
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
Reposted by Solange Rigaud
🚨 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...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Paléo-environnements et peuplements pléistocènes et holocènes M/F
emploi.cnrs.fr
May 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨 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
May 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
April 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
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
April 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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
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
April 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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.
www.lemonde.fr
April 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🧪@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
Reposted by Solange Rigaud
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
April 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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
March 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🧪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