Loïc lebreton
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Loïc lebreton
@loiclebreton.bsky.social
Dr. in prehistory, use small vertebrate to reconstruct Pleistocene environments.
Also interested in taphonomy and small game exploitation
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🔥Our new paper is out!
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"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 ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out!

Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...

#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament

Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!

Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬

Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
September 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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
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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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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
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Nouvelle publication dans le cadre du programme collectif de recherches que nous menons sur la grotte du Mas d'Azil en Ariège!
> Niveaux aurignaciens : petits vertébrés et climat !
C'est dans les Comptes-Rendus Paléovol, c'est en accès libre et c'est gratuit :
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiqu...
The small vertebrate assemblages from the Aurignacian deposits of the Mas d’Azil cave (Ariège, France): new data for the understanding of the MIS3 environmental changes in the Pyrenees
La grotte du Mas d’Azil, située dans le Sud-Ouest de la France au pied des Pyrénées, en Ariège, est un site majeur pour l’étude et la compréhension du Paléolithique supérieur européen. Les...
sciencepress.mnhn.fr
January 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM