Curriculum Vitae
Alice Leplongeon
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alice Leplongeon
Citation names
- Leplongeon, Alice
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 4B19-E6B9-7E4F
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8464-8063
Websites
- http://hnhp.cnrs.fr/?243-leplongeon-alice-1&lang=fr (Scholar)
- https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/english/our-staff/bap/aliceleplongeon (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| French (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| Italian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
| Amharic | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2010/10/01 - 2013/12/06
Concluded
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Ph.D. in prehistory (Doctorat)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
"The Middle to the Later Stone Age transition in East Africa (Ethiopia)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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with first class honours |
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2008 - 2010
Concluded
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Master Quaternary and Prehistory (Master)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
"The Upper Palaeolithic lithic assemblage from Nazlet Khater 4 (Middle Egypt, Egypt)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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First class honours (> 16/20) |
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2007 - 2008
Concluded
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Diploma of Museology from the Ecole du Louvre (Paris) (Maîtrise)
École du Louvre, France
"How to exhibit stone tools in museums?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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second-class honours (between 14 and 16/20) |
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2007
Concluded
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Diploma of History and Art and Archaeology of the Ecole du Louvre (Bachelor)
École du Louvre, France
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N/A |
Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/10/01 - Current | Senior postdoctoral Fellow | Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium (...) |
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| 2018/09/01 - 2019/06/30 | EURIAS Junior postdoctoral fellow | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Italy |
| 2017/11/13 - 2018/06/12 | Postdoctoral researcher in the frame of the ANR project 'Big Dry' | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2015/10/01 - 2017/09/30 | Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow | University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom |
| 2014/01/06 - 2015/01/05 | Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/12/01 - 2023/12/15 | Chole rock shelter and past human-environment interactions at the edge of Lake Victoria
Principal investigator
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Ongoing
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| 2018/09/01 - 2019/06/30 | Human-environment interactions in the Nile Valley between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago in the context of Modern Human dispersals
Principal investigator
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Italy
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European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development People Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS) Ongoing
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| 2017/12 - 2018/12 | Not Just a Corridor. Human occupation of the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions between 75000 and 15000 years ago
Principal investigator
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Concluded
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| 2015/10/01 - 2017/09/30 | PleisTechnoVar: Technological Variability during the Late Pleistocene in Eastern Africa: lithic assemblages as indirect witnesses
of past human population dynamics
Post-doc Fellow
University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Science with and for Society
Concluded
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| 2016 - 2016 | Current approaches and new directions in lithic analysis: defining, identifying and interpreting variability
NA
Researcher
University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom
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University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Concluded
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| 2014/01/06 - 2015/01/05 | Back-to-Africa? Technical Diversity in the Levant and the Nile Valley at the end of the Pleistocene
NA
Post-doc Fellow
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Fondation Fyssen
Concluded
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| 2012 - 2013 | Analysis of lithic assemblages at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
NA
Researcher
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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Association Française des Femmes Françaises Diplômées des Universités AFFDU Société des Amis du Muséum Centre français des études éthiopiennes Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/10 - 2022/09 | The MOVADAPT project - MOdern human technological Variability in Africa during the last 50,000 years: diffusions, transitions,
aDAPtations.
12U9220N
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Herculesstichting |
| 2010 - 2013 | The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in East Africa (Ethiopia)
NA
PhD Student Fellow
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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Ministere de l'Education nationale de l'Enseignement superieur et de la Recherche Secrétariat de l'Enseignement supérieur
et de la Recherche
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/11 - Current | Comparative Analysis of Middle Stone Age Artefacts in Africa (CoMSAfrica)
NA
Researcher
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Ongoing
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| 2018 - Current | (H)Origin Project
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Italy
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Ongoing
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| 2014/01 - Current | The Big Dry. Rupture and continuity in the late Pleistocene settlement of Africa: Paleoanthropology, archaeology and palaeoenvironment
compared between the Rift and Nile Valleys within their continental context
Researcher
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France |
Agence nationale de la recherche
Ongoing
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| 2011 - Current | South East Ethiopia Cave Survey Project
NA
Researcher
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Ongoing
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| 2015 - 2016 | Human occupation and Palaeoenvironement in Africa
Researcher
Université de Genève Département de Génétique et Evolution, Switzerland
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference abstract |
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| Conference paper |
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| Edited book |
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| Encyclopedia entry |
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| Journal article |
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| Newsletter article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Stone Age occurrences in the Wadi Abu Subeira, Aswan region, Egypt: preliminary results. | 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies
University of Warsaw, Poland
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| 2022 | Porc-Epic Cave, more than 90 years later – a typical MSA site in the Horn of Africa? | 16th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and related studies
Zanzibar, Tanzania, PANAF
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| 2021 | Tool types and the establishment of the later Prehistory taxonomic system in the Nile Valley and the Horn of Africa. | European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 2021 Meeting
Kiel (Virtual meeting)
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| 2019 | The Nile Valley at the end of the Pleistocene | European Geosciences Union 2019 meeting
EGU, Vienne, Austria
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| 2019 | Late Pleistocene lithic variability in eastern Africa and the Middle to the Later Stone Age transitions | Prähistorisches Kolloquium
Institut für Ur- and Frühgeschichte, Cologne, Germany
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| 2018/12 | Cultural dynamics in eastern Africa during the Late Pleistocene: a view from Goda Buticha (Ethiopia) and Enkapune Ya Muto (Kenya) | Rencontres d'Air Moderne et de Préhistoire africaine
Université de Nanterre (Paris, France)
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| 2018/11 | The Nile Valley during the Palaeolithic | Bi-annual conference of Archéo-Nil
Association Archéo-Nil, Ecole du Louvre (Paris, France)
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| 2018/11 | Lithic analysis and the Middle Stone Age of southeastern Ethiopia | Comparative Analysis of Middle Stone Age Artefacts (CoMSAfrica)
Radcliffe Institute, University of Harvard (Cambridge, MA, United States)
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| 2018/10 | Exploring lithic variability using multivariate analyses: a case study from southeastern Ethiopia | MetroArchaeo conference
University of Cassino, Italy (Cassino, Italy)
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| 2018/06 | What, if any, evidence is there of contacts between the Nile Valley and the Negev desert during the terminal Pleistocene? | 18th World Congress of the International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP)
Université Paris 1 la Sorbonne (Paris, France)
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| 2018/06 | A view from the East: Backed pieces in the Horn of Africa | 18th World Congress of the International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP)
Université Paris 1 La Sorbonne (Paris, France)
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| 2017/08 | Backed pieces and the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa | 6th Conference of the East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology
Ethiopian Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
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| 2016/09 | Lithic assemblages from Enkapune Ya Muto (Kenya) | 6th meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
ESHE (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2016/06 | Late Pleistocene lithic technology in East Africa | 23rd meeting of the Society of Africanist Archeologists (SAfA)
SAfA (Toulouse, France)
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| 2016/04 | Variability in the Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa | 81st meeting of the Society of American Archaeology (SAA)
SAA (Orlando, FL, United States)
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| 2016/04 | The Middle Stone Age of Southeastern Ethiopia | International workshop 'Parting the Red Sea'
University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, United States)
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| 2015/06 | The Late Palaeolithic of the Egyptian Nile Valley | International Symposium “Desert and the Nile”
(Poznan, Poland)
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| 2014/07 | Is there a Middle to Late Stone Age transition in Ethiopia? | 22nd meeting of the Society of Africanist Archeologists (SAfA)
(Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022 - Current | The Egyptian Epipalaeolithic
Supervisor
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Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium
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| 2019 - 2022 | The Pleistocene/Holocene transition in North and Northeastern Africa: a review
Supervisor
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Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium
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| 2017/09 - 2018/06 | The Lupemban assemblages at the National Museum of Natural History
Co-supervisor
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Quaternary and Prehistory (Master)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/10 - 2018/10 | Session 8 at the MetroArchaeo conference in Cassino, Italy '‘Using multivariate analyses to interpret lithic variability:
contributions and limitations’, with Prof. Elena Garcea (2018/10 - 2018/10)
Other (Co-organisor)
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| 2018/06 - 2018/06 | Session XXII-2 at the International Prehistory (UISPP) congress in Paris 'The Nile Valley in Prehistory: did it play a role
in human dispersals?', with Dr Mae Goder-Goldberger (2018/06 - 2018/06)
Other (Co-organisor)
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| 2018 - 2018 | Organisation of an international workshop 'Not Just a Corridor. Human occupations of the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions
between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago (2018/05/31 - 2018/06/02)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2016/10/30 - 2016/10/30 | Outreach activity - Organisation of a Marie Curie Ambassador Day 'Exploring what make humans tick' short talks and hands-on
activities (2016/10/30 - 2016/10/30)
Festival (Co-organisor)
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University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom |
| 2016 - 2016 | Organisation of an international workshop 'Current approaches and new directions in lithic analysis: Defining, Identifying
and Interpreting Lithic Variability' in Cambridge (2016/09/29 - 2016/10/01)
Workshop (Other)
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University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2017/09 - 2017/09 | Poster presentation 'Backed pieces and their variability in the Horn of Africa' (with C. Ménard)
Conference
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7th meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) |
| 2017/03/18 - 2017/03/18 | Outreach activity - Presentation of stone tools and how their study helps to reconstruct past human behaviour
Festival
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Cambridge Science Festival
University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom
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| 2016/03/14 - 2016/03/14 | Public talk "Late Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age of Eastern Africa"
Seminar
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BIEA Seminar series
British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kenya
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| 2016/02/19 - 2016/02/19 | Public talk “The Middle and Later Stone Age of South-Eastern Ethiopia"
Seminar
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Evolution: an international research seminar in eastern Africa. Paleobiodiversity, paleobiology, prehistory, paleoenvironments
Centre français des études éthiopiennes, Ethiopia
Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Ethiopia |
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2020/03/16 | A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHANGE IN NEOLITHIC PROJECTILE POINTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARABIA
(8TH-4TH MILLENNIUM BC)
(Thesis) Arguer
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Maria Pia Maiorano (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Italy
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Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2016 - 2017 | Member of the postdoctoral committee
Member
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University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom |
| 2010 - 2012 | Doctoral and student representative at the Management Board of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
Member
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Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/09 - 2023/05 | Prehistoric Archaeology | (Bachelor) | Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 2020 - 2023 | Prehistoric Archaeology (Tutorial) | (Master) | Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 2022 - 2022 | Lithic analysis | (Master) | National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan |
| 2020/09 - 2021/05 | Prehistoric Archaeology | (Bachelor) | Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 2018 - 2018 | Module 'Experimental archaeology and technical behaviours in the Palaeolithic' 30 hours | Prehistory (Master) | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2018 - 2018 | Module 'Stratigraphic approach to prehistoric sites' 24 hours | Prehistory (Master) | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2018 - 2018 | Module 'Prehistory of the Maghreb: Mediterranean and African perspectives' lecturing (2 hours) | Prehistory (Master) | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2016 - 2017 | Module 'Human Evolution and Palaeolithic Archaeology' Total number of teaching hours: Lecturing (2 hours), practical teaching (14 hours), small-group tutorials of 2-4 students (9 hours) | Archaeology (Licence) | University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom |
| 2011 - 2013 | Module 'Technical behaviours in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic' (tot: 6 hours) | Prehistory (Master) | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/05/11 | comment on recent publication on African prehistory | Le Figaro |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2018 | La Tête au Carré | comment on recent publication on African prehistory |