Curriculum Vitae
Aurore Marie Sophie Val
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Aurore Marie Sophie Val
Citation names
- Val, Aurore
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 971A-8B5E-AE37
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5350-186X
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- (+33) 0783239048 (Personal)
Addresses
- Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Schloss Hohentübingen, Burgsteige 11, 72070 , Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
- Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| French (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| German | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
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2010/01/01 - 2014/02/28
Concluded
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Docteur en Préhistoire et géologie du quaternaire (Docteur)
Major in Préhistoire
Université de Bordeaux, France
"A 3D approach to understand the taphonomy of the early hominins from the Plio-Pleistocene cave site of Malapa." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007/09/05 - 2009/06/30
Concluded
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Master d'Anthropologie biologique et Préhistoire (Master)
Major in Préhistoire
Université de Bordeaux, France
"Le dépouillement des petits Carnivores par les taxidermistes et ses conséquences sur le squelette. Implications pour le Paléolithique
en Europe.
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Affiliation
Science
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Employer | |
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| 2020/11/01 - 2022/04/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany |
| Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany | ||
| 2018/07/01 - 2020/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany |
| Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany | ||
| 2016/10/01 - 2018/06/30 | Postdoc (Research) | DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences, South Africa |
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, South Africa | ||
| 2013/09/01 - 2016/07/31 | Postdoc (Research) | DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences, South Africa |
| University of the Witwatersrand - Evolutionary Studies Institute, South Africa |
Projects
Grant
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| 2014/01/01 - Current | On the edge of the Highveld: the Ohrigstad Valley project
Projet Bushman
Principal investigator
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
University of the Witwatersrand - Evolutionary Studies Institute, South Africa |
Francais Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères
Ongoing
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| 2020/10/01 - 2025/12/31 | Archaeological prospections in southernwestern Namibia
Archaeological prospection, Namibia
Principal investigator
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
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| 2018/08/01 - 2025/12/31 | The place beyond the trees: renewed excavations at the Earlier, Middle and Later Stone Age archaeological site of Olieboomspoort,
South Africa
COE2018-11OP
COE2019-OP08
Principal investigator
University of the Witwatersrand - Evolutionary Studies Institute, South Africa
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DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences IFAS-Research (French Institute in South Africa) Ongoing
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| 2016/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Diepkloof Rock Shelter and the history of Late Pleistocene populations on the West Coast of South Africa
Projet Diepkloof
Post-doc
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
University of Cape Town Department of Archaeology, South Africa |
Francais Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères Institut français d'Afrique du Sud Paleontological Scientific Trust (PAST) Ongoing
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| 2018/01 - 2025/12 | Excavations of the Middle Stone Age deposits of Sibudu Cave, South Africa
Project Sibudu
Post-doc
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Ongoing
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| 2017/01/01 - 2024/12/31 | MATOBART
Projet Matobart
Post-doc
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France
University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Aix-Marseille Université, France |
Francais Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères
Ongoing
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| 2020/01/01 - 2021/12/31 | The Magdalenian and Mesolithic occupations at Helga Abri, Swabian Jura, Germany
Project Helga Abri
Post-doc
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
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| 2020/01/01 - 2021/12/31 | Rediscovering the 1930s Kohl-Larsen collection from Njarasa Cave, Tanzania
Project Njarasa Cave
Post-doc
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung VolkswagenStiftung Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
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| 2021/05/31 | Fourrure et plumes: émergence de nouvelles formes d’interactions entre Homo sapiens et le monde animal au cours du Middle Stone Age sud-africain. | CPF 2021 : 29e Congrès Préhistorique de France Hiatus, lacunes et absences : identifier et interpréter les vides archéologiques
Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, UMR 5608 TRACES (Toulouse, France)
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| 2021/03/08 | Penguins versus pigeons: some insights on coastal resource exploitation (or not) during the Middle Stone Age of South Africa provided by the analysis of bird remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter and Sibudu Cave. | Human societies and environments in the circum-Mediterranean area, from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene. Colloque en
hommage à Émilie Campmas (1983-2019)
Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, UMR 5608 TRACES (Toulouse, France)
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| 2020/11/17 | Exploitation of animal resources in southern Africa during the Later Stone Age at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: a case study from Bushman Rock Shelter (Limpopo Province, South Africa). | Séminaire de recherche Master ASE2P
Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, UMR 5608 TRACES (Toulouse, France)
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| 2020/06/25 | Human exploitation of nocturnal felines at Diepkloof Rock Shelter provides further evidence for symbolic behaviours during the Middle Stone Age. | Abteilungkolloquium, University of Tübingen
Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie Department (Tübingen, Germany)
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| 2020/03/05 | Birds and prehistoric people in KwaZulu-Natal: what can the bird bones from Sibudu Cave tell us about Middle Stone Age hunters-gatherers' lifeways? | Public talk
Friends of Sibudu (Umhlali Golf Estate) (Ballito, South Africa)
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| 2019/12/17 | Les dernières découvertes archéologiques, paléoanthropologiques et génétiques sur les origines de notre espèce, Homo sapiens. | Public talk
Université Inter-Âges Normandie (Vire Normandie, France)
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| 2019/09/25 | The Later Stone Age south of the Zambezi: histories of research and current questions. | Dynamiques culturelles et Transformation des paysages dans un continent en mutation : du Big Dry à l’Holocène dans l’Est africain.
Séance ouverte de la Société préhistorique française (Toulouse, France)
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| 2019/06/29 | Variability of late Pleistocene hunters-gatherers' subsistence strategies in southern Africa: a general overview of coastal versus inland contexts. | Conference on “Cultural dynamics of the Middle Stone Age in coastal and interior contexts of southern Africa”
Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie Department, University of Tuebingen (Tuebingen, Germany)
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| 2019/06/29 | Introduction to Heuningneskrans (Limpopo Province, South Africa) with a focus on the Last Glacial Maximum boundary. | Conference on “Cultural dynamics of the Middle Stone Age in coastal and interior contexts of southern Africa”
Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie Department, University of Tuebingen (Tuebingen, Germany)
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| 2019/06/28 | Birds in subsistence strategies of late Pleistocene hunters-gatherers in southern Africa: a comparison between the avifauna from Sibudu Cave and Diepkloof Rock Shelter. | Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archaölogie Kolloquium
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archaölogie (INA) (Tuebingen, Germany)
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| 2019/05/20 | Variabilité des stratégies de subsistance des groupes de chasseurs-cueilleurs du Middle Stone Age à la fin du pléistocène en Afrique du Sud. | Réunion scientifique
CNRS-UMR 7194 (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine) (Paris, France)
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| 2018/12/17 | The place beyond the trees: new excavations at the Middle Stone Age deposits at Olieboomsport, South Africa. | Rencontres d'Air Moderne et de Préhistoire Africaine
Université Paris Nanterre (Paris, France)
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| 2018/09/10 | Mwulu's Cave revisited 71 years later. A Middle Stone Age sequence in southern Africa (Limpopo). | 15th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies
Mohammed V University (Rabat, Morocco)
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| 2018/09/10 | Which role in the human diet for small mammals during the Middle Stone Age? A case study from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa. | 15th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies
Mohammed V University (Rabat, Morocco)
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| 2018/09/10 | Subsistence strategies associated with the Middle Stone Age 'Pietersburg' techno-complex at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa | 15th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies
Mohammed V University (Rabat, Morocco)
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| 2018/06/18 | New methodology of icp-ms for femtosecond laser ablation for direct dating of ostrich eggshells via u-series disequilibrium. | Society of Africanist Archaeologists 24th Biennial Meeting
University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
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| 2018/06/18 | Technology and use-wear of MIS 5 triangular tools at Bushman Rockshelter (Limpopo, South Africa) in the context of Middle Stone Age convergent tool productions in Africa. | Society of Africanist Archaeologists 24th Biennial Meeting
University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
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| 2018/06/18 | New technological, chronological and cultural data on the Pietersburg from Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province, South Africa. | Society of Africanist Archaeologists 24th Biennial Meeting
University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
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| 2018/03/22 | An experimental approach to test the influence of stone tool type on microscopic morphology of cut-marks with an application to the archaeological record. | African Conference on Experimental Archaeology (ACE)
University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2017/12/01 | Tortoise exploitation patterns in South Africa during the Pleistocene and early Holocene: some data from the Later and Middle Stone Age layers of Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province. | Elands Bay Cave Research day
French Institute in South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2017/11/17 | Prof. Hannes Eloff, Gabi, Godot, Gina & Gisel: Bushman Rock Shelter, 40 years later. | Public lecture
South African Archaeological Society (UNISA) (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2017/10/20 | De « Hommage à la Catalogne » à « En attendant Godot » : Nouvelles données sur les niveaux Middle Stone Age de Bushman Rock Shelter, Province du Limpopo, Afrique du Sud. | Seminar “Journée Jeunes Chercheurs”
Laboratoire TRACES (CNRS-UMR 5608), Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
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| 2017/07/05 | Ancient human and pathogen DNA persists in the Late Pleistocene sub-saharan African anthropogenic sediments. | Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists
University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2017/07/05 | The Oakhurst occupation of the upper layers at Bushman Rock Shelter: preliminary results from the lithic and zooarchaeological analyses. | Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists
University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2017/07/05 | Subsistence strategies during MIS 5 in southern Africa: a synthesis of the current state of knowledge and new insights from the analysis of faunal remains data from the MSA layers of Bushman Rock Shelter (Limpopo Province, South Africa). | Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists
University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2017/05/25 | First humans and the development of cultural modernity: what is the South African archaeological record telling us? | Public lecture
NHSS Science Talks Swaziland (Swaziland)
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| 2017/05/03 | Prof. Hannes Eloff, Gabi, Godot, Gina & Gisel: Bushman Rock Shelter, 40 years later. | Seminar
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2017/02/23 | First humans and the development of cultural modernity: what is the South African archaeological record telling us? | Public lecture
Ditsong Museum of Natural History (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2016/09/14 | Benefits of and challenges posed by working with old archaeological collections: the example of Bushman Rock Shelter. | Collections-based research workshop
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, UNISA (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2016/06/26 | Subsistence strategies at the Late Pleistocene/early Holocene transition in South Africa: preliminary results from Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province. | Society of Africanist Archaeologists 23rd Biennial Meeting
Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
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| 2016/06/26 | '28' at Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo (South Africa). | Society of Africanist Archaeologists 23rd Biennial Meeting
Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
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| 2016/06/26 | The role of birds in South African Middle Stone Age subsistence strategies: preconceived ideas, methodological issues and recent discoveries from Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal). | Society of Africanist Archaeologists 23rd Biennial Meeting
Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
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| 2016/04/22 | Early hominin taphonomy in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. | First bilateral archaeology seminar of the USR 3336
French Institute in South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2015/10/12 | Bird/human interactions in the southern African Middle Stone Age: new data from Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal. | Symposium for the 20th anniversary of Franco-South African collaboration in Archaeology
French Institute in South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2015/08/01 | New excavations of the Later and Middle Stone Age layers at Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province, South Africa. | Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists
University of Zimbabwe (Harare, Zimbabwe)
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| 2015/07/01 | The use of ostrich shell beads and ochre at Bushman rock shelter, South Africa: exploring Middle Stone Age symbolic systems and social organization. | Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists
University of Zimbabwe (Harare, Zimbabwe)
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| 2015/05/20 | New excavations of the Later and Middle Stone Age layers from Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province. | Public lunch talk
Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2014/09/22 | First evidence of bird consumption in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, South Africa: an experimental approach. | 12th Congress of the International Council of Zooarchaeology
Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael (San Rafael, Argentina)
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| 2014/07/11 | Primate taphonomy in the Plio-Pleistocene cave deposits from the Cradle of Humankind. | 19th Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa
University of the Witwatersrand, Evolutionary Studies Institute (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2013/10/23 | Virtual preparation of fossil bones from cave deposits in the Cradle of Humankind. | Imaging with Radiation, First South African Biennial Conference
Necsa's Visitor Centre (Pretoria, South Africa)
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| 2013/08/28 | A forensic approach to understand the taphonomy of the hominins from the Malapa site. | Fourth Conference of the Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology
(Mombasa, Kenya)
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| 2012/09/05 | Post-mortem in 3D: new methods to assess the spatial taphonomy of the Malapa early hominins. | 18th Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa
University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
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| 2012/08/08 | 3D techniques to understand the taphonomy of the hominids from the Plio-Pleistocene cave site of Malapa (Gauteng Province, South Africa). | Third Conference of the Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology
National Museum of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
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| 2011/10/25 | Carnivore domination over hominins in the Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa. New taphonomic analysis of Cooper’s D. | Hominid-Carnivore interactions International Congress
Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) (Tarragona, Spain)
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| 2011 | A 3D approach to identify microfauna remains from the Plio-Pleistocene site of Malapa (Gauteng Province, South Africa). | 16th Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa
Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa (Howick, South Africa)
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| 2009/10/20 | Taphonomie du fouilleur: tamisage et représentation anatomique des petits animaux à fourrure. | Table ronde "Taphonomie des Petits Vertébrés"
Université de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France)
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| 2009/06/24 | Characterization of cut marks made by taxidermists on small carnivores. Implications for Palaeolithic subsistence strategies. | Rencontres archéozoologiques de Lattes.
CNRS, UMR 5140 « archéologie des sociétés méditerranéennes » (Montpellier, France)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2020/03 - Current | A zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age faunal remains from Olieboomspoort, Waterberg Mountains,
South Africa.
Co-supervisor
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Bone taphonomy (Master)
University of Cape Town Department of Archaeology, South Africa
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| 2016/04 - Current | Subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene in southern Africa: a zooarchaeological approach.
Co-supervisor
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Subsistence strategies (PhD)
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France
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| 2016/01 - 2018/07 | Taxonomic and taphonomic analyses of fossil fauna from a new deposit in Gondolin.
Co-supervisor
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Bone taphonomy (Master)
University of the Witwatersrand - Evolutionary Studies Institute, South Africa
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2020/03/01 - 2021/12/31 | Society for American Archaeology | Member |
| 2016/01/01 - 2018/12/31 | Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA) | Member |
| 2011/06/01 - 2013/12/31 | Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology | Member |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2019/11/11 - 2019/11/18 | Two seminars for a course led by Dr. Gregor Bader on Late Pleistocene/early Holocene subsistence in South Africa for the students registered in the Master of Science (Archaeological Sciences) proposed by the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Seminar 1: The Pleistocene/Holocene transition in southern Africa. Seminar 2: Coastal resources exploitation by Late Pleistocene/early Holocene hunter-gatherers in South Africa. | Southern African archaeology (Master) | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany |
| 2018/03/01 - 2018/03/15 | As part of the Honours course (equivalent of the first year of Master in the European system) taught at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, I taught a 2 week-long class on modern vertebrate osteology two years in a row (2017 and 2018), during one of my post-doctoral contracts in South Africa. It included a theoretical component about the evolution of vertebrate skeleton structure and a strong practical component that took place in the comparative collections of the institute. | Osteology (Master) | University of the Witwatersrand - Evolutionary Studies Institute, South Africa |
| 2017/02/01 - 2017/02/15 | As part of the Honours course (equivalent of the first year of Master in the European system) taught at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, I taught a 2 week-long class on modern vertebrate osteology two years in a row (2017 and 2018), during one of my post-doctoral contracts in South Africa. It included a theoretical component about the evolution of vertebrate skeleton structure and a strong practical component that took place in the comparative collections of the institute. | Osteology (Master) | University of the Witwatersrand - Evolutionary Studies Institute, South Africa |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2016/06/20 | Following the first publications on the Homo naledi fossil remains (Rising Star cave system, South Africa) by Lee Berger and his team, a journalist from the New Yorker, Paige Williams, conducted a series of interviews with his collaborators and colleagues in the field of paleoanthropology. I was interviewed about the reply I had recently published in Journal of Human Evolution on the deliberate burial hypothesis proposed by Lee Berger and his team to explain the origin of the hominin remains inside the cave system. | The New Yorker |