AASPE is a laboratory under the dual supervision of the CNRS (INEE) and the National Museum of Natural History.
List of publications
, October 2023 — Genome Sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-Year-Old Modern Humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea. Populations genetically related to present-day Europeans first appeared
in Europe at some point after 38,00040,000 years ago,... Nature Ecology & Evolution. Dir. Nature Publishing Group, p. 1-13.
ISSN:
2397-334X
, 2023 — Multi-isotope zooarchaeological investigations at Abri du Maras: The paleoecological and paleoenvironmental context of Neanderthal subsistence strategies in the Rhône Valley during MIS 3. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 174, dir. Elsevier, p. 103292.
, 2023 — Fossil micromammals and the palaeoenvironments of the Paranthropus robustus site of Cooper’s Cave. Historical Biology. Publisher: Taylor & Francis.
, 2023 — Bioclimatic inference based on mammal community using machine learning regression models: perspectives for paleoecological studies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 11, p. 1178379. Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
, July 2023 — A taphonomic and spatial distribution study of the new levels of the middle Pleistocene site of Notarchirico (670–695 ka, Venosa, Basilicata, Italy). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Vol. 15, n° 7, dir. Springer, p. 106.
, October 2023 — Kanyimangin: The Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition in the South-West of the Turkana Basin. , The Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT) is characterised by
major environmental changes and evolutionary... Antiquity. Vol. 97, n° 395, dir. Cambridge University Press, e25.
ISSN:
0003-598X, 1745-1744
, February 2022 — An improved chronology for the Middle Stone Age at El Mnasra cave, Morocco. PLoS ONE. Vol. 17, n° 2, e0261282. Publisher: Public Library of Science.
, July 2022 — Palaeolithic polyhedrons, spheroids and bolas over time and space. Polyhedrons, spheroids and bolas (PSBs) are present in lithic series
from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards and are found in... PLOS ONE. Vol. 17, n° 7, e0272135. Publisher: Public Library of Science.
ISSN:
1932-6203
, 2022 — What Are the “Costs and Benefits” of Meat-Eating in Human Evolution? The Challenging Contribution of Behavioral Ecology to Archeology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 10.
ISSN:
2296-701X
, 2022 — Early Pleistocene Hominin Subsistence Behaviors in South Africa: Evidence from the Hominin-Bearing Deposit of Cooper’s D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa). Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 162, p. 103116.
ISSN:
0047-2484
, May 2022 — Fossil Bovidae from the Hominini-bearing site of Cooper’s D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa): implications for Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938 and early Homo Linnaeus, 1758 habitat preferences. The Cooper’s D deposit has been dated by U-Pb at a maximum age of 1.37
Ma ± 0.113 and has yielded seven Hominini remains, six... Comptes Rendus Palevol. N° 21.
ISSN:
1777-571X
, 2022 — The first use of olives in Africa around 100,000 years ago. Nature Plants. Vol. 8, p. 204-208. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group.
, August 2022 — New evidence of Neandertal butchery traditions through the marrow extraction in southwestern Europe (MIS 5–3). Long bone breakage for bone marrow recovery is a commonly observed
practice in Middle Palaeolithic contexts, regardless of the... PLoS ONE. Vol. 17, n° 8, dir. Public Library of Science, e0271816.
ISSN:
1932-6203
, July 2021 — First high resolution chronostratigraphy for the early North African Acheulean at Casablanca (Morocco). Scientific Reports. Vol. 11, n° 1, dir. Nature Publishing Group, p. 15340.
, January 2021 — Neanderthal foraging in freshwater ecosystems: A reappraisal of the Middle Paleolithic archaeological fish record from continental Western Europe. The prevalence of large game found in association with Middle
Paleolithic tools has traditionally biased our ideas of... Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 252, p. 106731.
ISSN:
02773791
, 2021 — Taxonomy, palaeoecology and biochronology of fossil Bovidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla) from the hominin-bearing site of Cooper’s D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa): implications for Paranthropus robustus and early Homo habitat preferences. C.R. Palevol. Vol. sous presse. ZSCC: NoCitationData[s0].
, October 2021 — New evidence of bone tool use by Early Pleistocene hominins from Cooper’s D, Bloubank Valley, South Africa. Bone tool-use by Early Pleistocene hominins is at the centre of debates
in human evolution. It is especially the case in South... Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Vol. 39, p. 103129. ZSCC: NoCitationData[s0].
ISSN:
2352-409X
, August 2021 — Neotaphonomic study of two Tyto alba assemblages from Botswana: Palaeoecological implications. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Vol. 38, p. 103085. Publisher: Elsevier.
, April 2021 — Macaca ulna from new excavations at the Notarchirico Acheulean site (Middle Pleistocene, Venosa, southern Italy). Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 153, n° 102946, p. 102946.
ISSN:
00472484
, 2021 — Late Neanderthal short-term and specialized occupations at the Abri du Maras (South-East France, level 4.1, MIS 3). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Vol. 5. Publisher: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.