Marie-Héléne MONCEL
Directrice de Recherche
Entité de rattachement
UMR 7194 HNHP - DisCo
Recherches
Habilité(e) à diriger des recherches
Spécialité
Préhistoire
Contact
Réseaux sociaux
Courriel
marie-helene.moncel [at] mnhn.fr
Téléphone
+33 (0) 155 432 712
Adresse(s)
1 rue René Panhard
75013 Paris
Responsabilités dans l'unité
co-direction de l’équipe DisCo avec Sophie Grégoire (2019-2024)
Responsabilités hors unité
Organisation d’un comité « Acheuléen » et Lower Paleolithic à l’UISPP
Membre du comité premiers peuplements de l’UISPP (M. Arzarello, organisatrice)
Membre du Conseil Scientifique de la Fondation IPH (depuis 2019) et président.
Comité d’orientation UISPP 2018-2020
Membre de la commission CE27 ANR (2022, 2023, 2024)
Membre de la commission ANR « Access ERC » (2023, 2024)
Membre nommé du CS de l’INEE (2024-2028)
Membre du Scientific committee de la revue « Paleoanthropology » depuis 2022.
Enseignements
Séminaires de l’école doctorale du MNHN et du Master
Séminaires dans le réseau Erasmus mundus (Ferrare, Tarragone)
Présentation
Des premiers peuplements à Neanderthal en Europe de l’Ouest.
Modes de peuplements et dispersion des homininés en Europe de l’Ouest au Pleistocène moyen.
Territoires, comportements techniques et fonction des sites au Pléistocène moyen et supérieur.
CV
Moncel publications Octobre 2024.pdf
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Documents
Workshop ANR Neandroots 2024. Programme.
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Projets
Direction de projets et participation à des projets
- Direction de fouilles en cours :
Fouilles programmées Abri du Maras, Paleolithique moyen (MIS 7-5-3), SRA Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, depuis 2009
Fouilles programmées de Notarchirico (Basilicata, Italie) 670-700 ka, depuis 2016
- Direction de projets et programmes récents :
2016-2017: Leakey Fondation. Early evidence of Acheulean bifacial technology in Europe. New fieldwork at Notarchirico (Venosa, Basilicata, Italy).
2019-2021 : Leakey Fondation. Notarchirico and the onset of Acheulean: a revision.
2019-2021 : PICS/IEA CNRS France-Italie. Université de Ferrare, Italie - Dynamiques du peuplement paléolithique pléistocène du bassin méditerranéen - D3PBM. Exemple comparé de l’Italie et de la France. M-H. Moncel et M. Arzarello porteurs.
2020-2024: ANR NEANDROOTS. Understanding a threshold in Human evolution at 450-350 ka through the roots of Neanderthal behavior.
https://sites.google.com/unife.it/neanderoots/home
2020-2023 : Doctorat MNHN OPUS. Patrimoine. Sorbonne Université 2020. Julia Cabanès. Production et usage des sphéroïdes au Paléolithique inférieur en Europe et Afrique : approche comparative et intégrative d’objets énigmatiques et emblématiques. En codirection avec J. Baena, A. Borel, A. Lourdeau.
2023-2027. ERC Advanced Grant. Why late earliest occupation of Western Europe? LATEUROPE. M-H. Moncel PI.
Le projet débute en janvier 2023 et le site web du projet lateurope.cnrs.fr sera actif en 2023. Le recrutement de post-doctorants et de doctorants se déroule sur le portail https://emploi.cnrs.fr/ (CNRS et Europe).
The project aims to question human migrations and peopling: why the earliest hominins did occupy Western Europe later than other portions of Eurasia? Early Hominins, conquered Eurasia, long before Modern Humans, the single Homo species living now on the earth. They migrate with a rapid “Out of Africa” movement but left Europe empty during almost 1 million years. Western Europe did indeed face environmental constraints. This subcontinent is in a remote corner of Eurasia but other large Eurasian peninsulas are dead-ends as well. Certainly, Western Europe mixture of various environments and topographies did change a lot over time and the succession of climates, then causing favorable territories for human occupations to fluctuate. However, archaeology in Asia and the Levant shows that hominins did overcome variable climatic conditions and geographies. Investigating why Western Europe have remained out of the “Oekoumen” for so long is our research proposal LATEUROPE, that we base over datasets of interdisciplinary and behavioral materials enriched by future fieldworks in several specific sites and biomes on the key period before 500 ka. This will question at the local, regional and continental scale, the environmental, geographic and climatic conditions of Europe as compared to the rest of Eurasia and the characteristics of the hominin occupations and behaviours, or/and if a minimum degree of cognition was required to thrive in these lands. Databases will input multiple scenarios combining migration patterns and internal evolution mechanisms, using conceptual modeling and spatial agent-based simulations. This formalized combination of modeling and field methodologies is an epistemological advance for bringing interdisciplinarity to reality, allowing us to deeply question the ability of Homo species to adapt themselves to harsh environments, to face environmental shocks and changes on a long term scale.
- Participation à des projets en cours :
ERC Starting grant 2019-2024. Tracking Neanderthals in Time and Space: was the “Quina World” the first regional cultural entity in the history of Europe? G. Guérin porteur.
ERC Consolidator 2019-2024. EQUATE. Bridging Europe: a Quaternary Timescale for the Expansion and Evolution of Humans. K. Penkman porteur. Member of the advisory board.
GDR RIFT 2020. Christel Tiberi (directrice, INSU), et de 5 co-directeurs : Mathieu Schuster (INSU), Marie-Laure Derat (INSHS), Jean-Baptiste Eczet (INSHS), Sandrine Prat (INEE) et François Bon (INEE).
Marie Curie Fellowship. 2020-2024. MSA projet. Function of basalt in Palaeolithic. L. Asryan porteur (étude du matétiel de Payre et Abri du Maras, Université de Liège).
ANR. FOOD 2021. Resources, climate and large mammals: long term interactions within a Mediterranean ecosystem. V. Andrieu-Ponel porteur.
IRP. CNRS. WESTGEO: Settlements dynamics and palaeoenvironments in WESTern GEOrgia over the last 100,000 years (2022-2026). S. Prat porteur.
IPHES research project. 2022-2024. Ana Abrunhosa. Quartz and Quartzite Neanderthal Industries of Payre and Abri du Maras [QzN].
HOBS. Digital Technologies, Acheulean Handaxes and the Social Landscapes of the Lower Palaeolithic. British Museum. White M. porteur. Member of the Advisory board.
DIM PAMIR 2023. Patrimoines matériels. Doctorat. Evolution et chronOLogie du Paléolithique inférieur en Basilicate (Italie). A. Pereira et S. Nomade porteurs.
AHCR project 2023-2024, UK. Digital technologies, Acheulean handaxes and the social landscapes of the Lower Palaeolithic. N. Ashton and Ceri Shipton.
Terrains de recherche
Direction de chantiers de fouille en cours :
- France, Vallée du Rhône, Abri du Maras (fouilles programmées triannuelles) et autres sites régionaux (Paléolithique moyen). Fouilles programmées, prospections, opérations, reprise des séquence et datation des sites (MIS 7 à MIS 3). Analyse régionale des circulations et territoires des Néandertaliens. Depuis 2009.
- Italie, Notarchirico (Acheuléen). Fouilles programmées de la base de la séquence (670-700 ka). En collaboration avec les Universités de Rome, Ferrare, Bari, Bologne (Italie), lsce (France), Kenyon College (USA). Depuis 2016.
-Post-doctorats. LATEUROPE ERC Adv. Grant.
Antonio Pineda. Ecological relations between first European Hominins.
Paula Garcia-Medrano. Post-doctoral position in earliest human occupations of Western Europe and hominin behaviors.
Carolina Curat Mora. Integration of environmental, behavioral, and agent-based models on a continental scale.
Giovanna Fioretti. Raw material gathering in the context of the earliest occupations in Western Europe. A focus on Italian evidence. Co-dir. G.Eramo.
Marco Carpentieri. Post-doctoral position in earliest human occupations of Western Europe and hominin behaviors. The Italian case. Co-dir. M. Arzarello.
Lilian Reiss. Isotope Bioarchaeology. Co-dir. K. Britton.
Tiffanie Fourvade. Palynology and climate reconstructions (V. lLebreton et N. Nebout-Combourieu dir.)
-Post-doc (2023-2024). IPHES grant. R2Stair MSCA-Cofund.
Ana Abrunhosa. Quartz and quartzite Neanderthal assemblages of Payre and the Abri du Maras. Co-dir. G. Chacon Navarro, M-H. Moncel
-Doctorats LATEUROPE ERC Adv. Grant.
Harry Hal. Cultural exchange and the spread of innovations. Doctorat MNHN-Université de Liverpool. Co-dir. M-H. Moncel, M. Grove. 2023-2026.
Jan Olaf Reschke. Modelling spatial behavior of hominins and subsistence strategies. Doctorat MNHN-Université de Francfurt. Co-dir. M-H. Moncel, C. Hertler. 2023-2026.
Publications
2023
- , juillet 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
- , mars 2023 — Palaeoenvironmental changes in the southwestern Mediterranean (ODP site 976, Alboran sea) during the MIS 12/11 transition and the MIS 11 interglacial and implications for hominin populations. Quaternary Science Reviews vol. 304, , p. 108010 Publisher: Elsevier
- , 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
2022
- , août 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} e0271816ISSN1932-6203
- , juillet 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 ScienceISSN1932-6203
2021
- , avril 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. 102946ISSN00472484
- , 2021 — Étude génétique de la diversité et de l’alimentation de l’hyène des cavernes à partir de coprolithes de six sites du sud de la France. Quaternaire vol. 32/2, , p. 153-171 http://journals.openedition.org/quaternaire/15822
- , janvier 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. 106731ISSN02773791
- , 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
- , 2021 — A way to break bones? The weight of intuitiveness. PLOS ONE vol. 16, n° 10, e0259136