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Laurent Bruxelles
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Geomorphologist, geoarchaeologist, karstologist and caver. TRACES laboratory(CNRS) in Toulouse (France) and GAES, university of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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September 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Honoured to become Director of the new CNRS–University of the Witwatersrand International Research Center — the 7th worldwide & 1st in #Africa 🌍. Leaving TRACES (Toulouse) to join IFAS and Wits (Johannesburg), an exciting new adventure ahead! @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social #southafrica #science
September 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Jebel Sahaba au Soudan (environ 13 000 ans avant notre ère) est souvent cité pour ses plus anciennes preuves de violences interpersonnelles avec traces de blessures par armes. Un autre cas vient d’être identifié au Vietnam vieux de 12 000 ans #Pleistocene
phys.org/news/2025-08...
A fractured rib on a 12,000-year-old skeleton provides insights into violence in ancient Vietnam
Scientists have found what they believe may be the earliest evidence of violence in Southeast Asia. Studies of a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a man, discovered in Vietnam, reveal he was shot by an arro...
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September 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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La traque des indices de biocorrosion laissées par les chauves-souris en grotte ce poursuit. C’est confirmé, des chauves-souris ont bien occupé la grotte de la Cocalière, avant que l’entrée se referme naturellement ! #karst #bats #grotte #géomorphologie #écologie #gard @umr5608traces.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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We’re thrilled that our research in the caves of #Botswana has received the Habe Prize at the International Congress of #Speleology (UIS) in Belo Horizonte, #Brazil!
@umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social #archaeology #karst #paleontology #Africa #ecology #protection
July 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Productive meetings held on Friday at Wits University regarding the upcoming International Research Center in partnership with @cnrs.fr Promising interdisciplinary scientific collaborations between #SouthAfrica and #France are set to be launched soon @umr5608traces.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Si vous êtes dans le coin, on se retrouve mardi soir à #Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort (30) ? Je ferai le point sur nos recherche sur l’origine du genre Homo en Afrique australe #gatd #archéologie #exploration #afrique #paléontologie #karst #spéléologie #fossiles @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Our last paper paper  published in @NatureComms entitled "The #archaeology of #climate #change: a blueprint for integrating #environmental and cultural systems " is freely accessible here
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@cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social #climate #culture #landscape #model #human
July 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Back in #Nairobi for the first CNRS-Africa Joint Research Programmes — a great opportunity for interdisciplinary exchanges and to strengthen scientific networks between #France and #Africa @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social #mathematics #physics #astrophysics #water #Kenya
July 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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#CNRSinnovation 💡 La nouvelle lettre innovation du CNRS est sortie ! Laboratoires communs, start-up, brevets, événements... Retrouvez tous les mois les dernières actualités de la #valorisation et de l' #innovation au CNRS.

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June 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Raft cone stalagmites can be linked to hypogenic cave speleogenesis as here in Zbrašovské Aragonite Caves #czech but not systematically. #cave #karst #geology @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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New paper! 🧪 How can we work at the interface between climate science and evolutionary anthropology, to understand the complex feedbacks between cultural systems and climate change? It turns out that the answer might involve some ecological modeling!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems - Nature Communications
Here, the authors propose how climate change archaeology can explain how cultural systems impact interactions between humans and the environment, and vice versa, presenting a framework based in c...
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June 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Fascinating to observe sublimation features in cave ice, like here in Eisriesenwelt, Austria. So beautiful—and refreshingly cool at around 0°C! #karst #cave #ice #mountain #wind #geology #climate @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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[REPLAY] Qu’est-ce qui fait que notre écoute va soudainement être attirée par telle voix plutôt que par telle autre ?
Réponse dans cette conférence-démo des #ÉchappéesInattendues.

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#FeteDeLaMusique 🎶
June 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Avec la participation de P.-Y. Milcent, qui présente les fouilles de Jenzat
a-beauchamp-fc.bsky.social Antoine Beauchamp @a-beauchamp-fc.bsky.social · Jun 20
A 16h30 sur @franceculture.fr l'Entretien archéologique part en visite au Musée Anne de Beaujeu de Moulins-sur-Allier. L'exposition "L'Odyssée du Bronze. A la rencontre des premiers Européens" lève le voile sur l'âge du Bronze, sa culture matérielle et symbolique.
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L'âge du Bronze sort de l'ombre
A l’occasion de l’année scientifique consacrée à l’âge du Bronze, le musée Anne de Beaujeu de Moulins dédie une exposition aux trésors matériels de cette période qui court de -2.500 ans à - 800 ans av...
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June 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Cave excursion during the 32d International Karstological school in #postojna Very interesting periglacial features are studied here, just above Planina polje ponor @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social #karst #water #climate #geology #geomorphology #flood #spring #risk
June 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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From the 32d International Karstological school in #postojna #ljubjana, we are exchanging about extreme events in karst. @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social #karst #water #climate #geology #geomorphology #flood #spring #risk
June 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Quelques traces laissées dans les grottes du Larzac : des griffades d’ours des cavernes et un visage gravé. #karst #spéléologie #gravure #larzac #cave #art #ours #bear #engravings #Herault @umr5608traces.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Nouvelle publication !

"Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay" 🐳

Un article dans @natcomms.nature.com coordonné par J.-M. Pétillon (@cnrs.fr)

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Les plus anciennes traces d'outils fabriqués à partir d'os de baleine - TRACES : UMR 5608
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May 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Humans may have been making tools from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago, according to evidence presented in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4kePeD6 🏺 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows the taxonomic identification of the 173 bone specimens analyzed using ZooMS, and examples of the main categories of elements.
May 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Smooth walls and ceiling of La Roquette cave, shaped by bat-induced biocorrosion. All traces of the original speleogenetic features have vanished…  #cave #karst #bats #caving #biocorrosion #geomorphology #geology #Gard #Occitanie @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
May 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Thank you! 🙏
ryanoneil.bsky.social Ice Cream O'Clock @ryanoneil.bsky.social · May 27
Sometimes I read a post and just go, "Ooooh pretty picture"
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Wonderful pareidolia formed by a naturally fallen aragonite stalactite on the floor of a cave in #Botswana. You really don’t need much imagination here…
#karst #Africa #horse #cave @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Wonderful pareidolia formed by a naturally fallen aragonite stalactite on the floor of a cave in #Botswana. You really don’t need much imagination here…
#karst #Africa #horse #cave @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Bat sanctuary in Gcwihaba Caves, #Botswana. This chamber is known as the MOAB « Mother Of All Bats. » For now, they are simply gathering for the upcoming breeding season. They will be a lot more numerous soon!
#karst #Africa @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM