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Cyrielle Mathias
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Dr. in Palaeolithic archaeology.
Stone tools & early Middle Palaeolithic. Postdoc fellow, UMR 7194 HNHP & CRFJ

C'est gravé dans la roche !
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Cyrielle Mathias @cylex.bsky.social · Mar 27
"Lithic, Fauna: Let them Refit!" 🪨🦴🧩

► ► Call for Papers - Special Issue of JAS: Reports

Submission opening March 31!

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#Lithics #Fauna #Refits
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#UISPP2026 Call for papers!

Join us for the MP and MSA Commission thematic session: "Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories"

Deadline: 28 February!

► uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts
The Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age represent key phases in human prehistory, marked by technological innovations, evolving subsistence strategies, and changing spatial dynamics across diverse ecological settings. Advancing our understanding of how prehistoric groups organized their territories requires examining different site types—caves, rockshelters, and open-air sites—each preserving distinct dimensions of past human behavior. While caves and rockshelters often provide long-term or recurrent occupations with rich faunal records, open-air contexts frequently offer higher-resolution spatial patterning and insights into short-term or task-specific activities. This session explores how technological practices, subsistence behaviors, mobility strategies, and environmental conditions intersected to shape spatial and settlement dynamics during the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. By integrating evidence of site function, occupation duration, landscape use, and resource exploitation, we aim to refine and update interpretations of how prehistoric groups structured their activities and adapted to shifting ecological and climatic contexts. We particularly welcome multidisciplinary studies that combine technological, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental, zooarchaeological, spatial, or chronometric data to reconstruct territorial organization and mobility. However, discipline-specific research is also encouraged when it contributes meaningful insights into Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age settlement systems. Comparative regional analyses, high-resolution site studies, and integrative models of technological or economic change are especially relevant.
February 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
cylex.bsky.social
#UISPP2026 Call for papers!

Join us for the MP and MSA Commission thematic session: "Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories"

Deadline: 28 February!

► uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts
The Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age represent key phases in human prehistory, marked by technological innovations, evolving subsistence strategies, and changing spatial dynamics across diverse ecological settings. Advancing our understanding of how prehistoric groups organized their territories requires examining different site types—caves, rockshelters, and open-air sites—each preserving distinct dimensions of past human behavior. While caves and rockshelters often provide long-term or recurrent occupations with rich faunal records, open-air contexts frequently offer higher-resolution spatial patterning and insights into short-term or task-specific activities. This session explores how technological practices, subsistence behaviors, mobility strategies, and environmental conditions intersected to shape spatial and settlement dynamics during the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. By integrating evidence of site function, occupation duration, landscape use, and resource exploitation, we aim to refine and update interpretations of how prehistoric groups structured their activities and adapted to shifting ecological and climatic contexts. We particularly welcome multidisciplinary studies that combine technological, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental, zooarchaeological, spatial, or chronometric data to reconstruct territorial organization and mobility. However, discipline-specific research is also encouraged when it contributes meaningful insights into Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age settlement systems. Comparative regional analyses, high-resolution site studies, and integrative models of technological or economic change are especially relevant.
February 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Les Iraniens commencent à découvrir les noms, les photos, les circonstances de la mort de milliers de victimes, tandis que le régime continue sa politique de terreur. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
Iran : après les massacres, la population risque sa vie à les recenser
Les Iraniens et la diaspora commencent à découvrir les noms, les photos, les circonstances de la mort de milliers de victimes, tandis que le régime continue sa politique de terreur. C’est désormais e…
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February 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
📰 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool from Ice Age England identified was likely used by Neanderthals or members of Homo heidelbergensis to retouch stone tools

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologymag.bsky.social

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500,000-Year-Old Bone Tool Identified in England
A team of researchers led by Simon Parfitt of University College London and London’s Natural History Museum reviewed materials unearthed at the Boxgrove Paleolithic site in southern England in 1990. Among the artifacts, the scientists identified a 500,000-year-old tool made of elephant or mammoth bone.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:25 PM
cylex.bsky.social
Out soon!!

The 6th CONEXP proceedings ✨

#ExperimentalArchaeology #CONEXP
sidestone.bsky.social Sidestone Press @sidestone.bsky.social · 28d
COMING SOON:
Living Archaeology
Unveiling the Past through Experimental Archaeology
edited by C. Mathias, L. Bourguignon, J. Ivorra, C. Viallet

📙 Pre-order now for discount!
www.sidestone.com/books/living...

#prehistoric #ancientcrafts
January 23, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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archeodgarcia.bsky.social
#25ans 17 janvier 2001

Après de longs débats parlementaires, la loi sur l' #archéologie préventive est promulguée le 17 janvier 2001.
Elle a pour fondement légal la Convention européenne pour la protection du patrimoine archéologique, signée à Malte le 16 janvier 1992
January 17, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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18-month Postdoc in Biomolecular Archaeology at CNRS/CEPAM (Nice).
​Focus: Lipidomics & starch analysis of West African ceramics for the RainForStory project (Congo Basin agriculture).
​📅 Deadline: 12 Jan 2026
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - H/F Chercheur.se en archéologie biomoléculaire lipidomique archéologie africaine
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
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December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
cylex.bsky.social
Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)

Deadline extented until November 30!

Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟

► uispp2026.syskonf.pl

#UISPP2026
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
cylex.bsky.social
Interested in Cores-on-Flakes and Splits?

Our new paper is finally online, and open-access!

►►► "The use of splits and flakes as blanks for debitage or shaping: examples from the late Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Southern France" journals.openedition.org//paleo/10157

#LithicTechnology
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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pnas.org
Pigments and shells with drilled holes to be used as beads found with Châtelperronian stone tools in France suggest humans—or Neanderthals—were decorating themselves in the Middle Paleolithic, just as Homo sapiens were moving into Eurasia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Modifications observed on shells from La Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire, France, including perforations made by pressure and pigment staining. CREDIT: Solange Rigaud
October 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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🔥Our new paper is out!
@6rilviallet.bsky.social @loiclebreton.bsky.social

"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 ...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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janegoodallcan.bsky.social
Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.

She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.

#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane

Photo: Marko Zlousic
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
cylex.bsky.social
Back from a few weeks of intense work, from fieldwork in Albania to organising #ESHE2025 !
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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jmucchielli.bsky.social
En Allemagne, il présenterait sa démission ce soir, mais nous sommes en France alors il a reprendre deux fois des pâtes en disant que Mediapart c'est rien que des fouilles merde anti France islamo-wokistes.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Sébastien Lecornu n’a jamais validé le diplôme de droit qu’il prétendait avoir
Confronté à une enquête de Mediapart, le cabinet du premier ministre reconnaît finalement que Sébastien Lecornu n’est pas diplômé d’un master de droit public. Selon plusieurs documents, lui ou ses éq…
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September 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine?
August 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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cylex.bsky.social
First week of excavation at Coupe Gorge Cave - Montmaurin 🍃🦴

#fieldwork #excavation #middlepalaeolithic
Sunflower fields - Haute-Garonne Felid distal phalanx Coupe Gorge cave - squares excavated New findings, large herbivores remains
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
cylex.bsky.social
First week of excavation at Coupe Gorge Cave - Montmaurin 🍃🦴

#fieldwork #excavation #middlepalaeolithic
Sunflower fields - Haute-Garonne Felid distal phalanx Coupe Gorge cave - squares excavated New findings, large herbivores remains
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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grepam.bsky.social
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
Excavations ongoing into the cave. Sieving at Sete Agglopole. Remains of fauna. Cristal rock tool.
July 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
cylex.bsky.social
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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📣 L’archéologie préventive sacrifiée au nom de l’agriculture intensive
Le mardi 8 juillet, l’Assemblée nationale n’a pas pris en compte l’amendement n°2243 de la loi Duplomb, qui visait à exclure l’archéologie préventive du régime contentieux dérogatoire de la nouvelle loi d’orientation agricole.
July 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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grepam.bsky.social
Jérôme Ivorra, Grepam treasurer, is one of the co-authors of this article published in Palaeo Vertebrata 🔥🦴

The article provides a review of two palaeontological localities near Pézenas (Hérault), those of Le Riège and Saint-Palais.

Open access here: palaeovertebrata.com/articles/key...
First page of the scientific paper bu Mulé et al., 2025 entitled "revision of the historical collections of Pliocene-Pleistocene large mammals from Le riège and Saint-Palais localities, near Pézenas (Southern France) published in Palaeo Vertebrata. Bovids bones.
June 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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vincent-lemire.bsky.social
⚠️ "100.000 morts à Gaza". Le journal israélien
@haaretzcom s'appuie sur l'analyse du Prof. Michael Spagat (Univ. de Londres @royalholloway.bsky.social, spécialiste des statistiques de morts violentes, Kosovo, Irak, Syrie):
Sources : www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🛑 NON à l’affaiblissement de l’archéologie préventive !

La nouvelle loi d’orientation agricole (LOA), adoptée en mars 2025, prévoit un régime juridique spécial (article 44) pour accélérer les projets agricoles controversés : méga-bassines, élevages industriels, etc.
June 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM