Marion Prévost- PhD
- Post-doctoral researcher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marion Prévost
- PhD
- Post-doctoral researcher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Post-doc at the HCE lab (Hebrew University). Currently visiting scholar at Texas A&M University (until May 2025).
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Introduction
Current institution
Additional affiliations
January 2023 - present
Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
Position
- chercheur associé
Education
February 2014 - February 2021
September 2010 - June 2012
September 2009 - July 2010
Publications
Publications (24)
The south Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic (mid-MP; ~130–80 thousand years ago (ka)) is remarkable for its exceptional evidence of human morphological variability, with contemporaneous fossils of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like hominins. Yet, it remains unclear whether these hominins adhered to discrete behavioural sets or whether regional-scale...
Despite their obvious necessity, percussion tools, characterized by active and passive elements (i.e. mostly hammerstones and anvils) are rarely observed in abundance in Middle Paleolithic (MP) and Middle Stone Age (MSA) contexts. The MP open-air site of Nesher Ramla (Israel), occupied during most of the Marine isotopic Stage (MIS) 5, is a rare exc...
Although cooking is regarded as a key element in the evolutionary
success of the genus Homo, impacting various biological and social
aspects, when intentional cooking first began remains unknown. The
early Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel (marine
isotope stages 18–20; ~0.78 million years ago), has preserved evidence of
h...
In our original paper we claimed for a possible symbolic value of the engraved aurochs bone shaft found at the Unit III of the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla. In his comment to our original paper, Hodgson (2021) presents a contradictory interpretation, which mostly involved a proto-aesthetic source for early engravings.
Here we clarify our...
Middle Pleistocene Homo in the Levant
Our understanding of the origin, distribution, and evolution of early humans and their close relatives has been greatly refined by recent new information. Adding to this trend, Hershkovitz et al. have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown archaic Homo population, the “Nesher Ramla Homo ” (see the Perspecti...
In the archaeological record, Ground Stone Tools (hereafter GST) represent an important tool group that provides invaluable data for exploring technological development and changes in resource exploitation over time. Despite its importance, Lower and Middle Paleolithic (MP) GST technology remains poorly known and understudied. The MP record of the...
Ground Stone Tools (GST) have been identified in several Levantine archaeological sites dating to the Middle Paleolithic. These tools, frequently made of limestone, are often interpreted based on their morphology and damage as having been used for knapping flint, and sometimes for breaking animal bones or processing vegetal materials as well. Howev...
In the archaeological record, Ground Stone Tools (hereafter GST) represent an important tool group that provides invaluable data for exploring technological development and changes in resource exploitation over time. Despite its importance, Lower and Middle Paleolithic (MP) GST technology remains poorly known and understudied. The MP record of the...
Ground Stone Tools (GST) have been identified in several Levantine archaeological sites dating to the Middle Paleolithic. These tools, frequently made of limestone, are often interpreted based on their morphology and damage as having been used for knapping flint, and sometimes for breaking animal bones or processing vegetal materials as well. Howev...
This paper communicates the results of a detailed use-wear analysis of flint tools from Unit III of Nesher Ramla, central Israel, an open-air Middle Paleolithic site, dated to Marine Isotope Stage 5. The analyzed sample consists of 966 artifacts that represent major techno-typological categories; scrapers, tools with a lateral tranchet blow, natura...
During the Middle Paleolithic in Eurasia, the production of deliberate, abstract engraving on bone or stone materials is a rare phenomenon. It is now widely accepted that both anatomically modern humans and hominins that predate them have produced deliberate engravings associated with symbolic behavior. Within the Levantine Middle Paleolithic conte...
The open-air Middle Paleolithic site at Nesher Ramla, Israel, dated to the end of Marine Isotope Stage 6 and Marine Isotope Stage 5, is characterized by extensive use of the lateral tranchet blow technique. This technique consists of the removal of an elongated thin spall along the retouched edge of the blank. In Nesher Ramla, this technique is use...
Interpreting human behavioral patterns during the Middle Paleolithic in the Levant is crucial for better understanding the dispersals and evolution of Homo sapiens and their possible interactions with other hominin groups. Here, we reconstruct the technological behavior, focusing on the centripetal Levallois method at Nesher Ramla karst sinkhole, I...
3D quantification methods to characterize ground stone tools use:
Application to the analyses of Unit V of Nesher Ramla
(Middle Paleolithic, Central Levant)
In this paper we describe two assemblages of flint retouchers or “bulb retouchers” retrieved from Nesher Ramla and Quneitra, two Middle Palaeolithic, open-air sites in the Levant. The site of Nesher Ramla yielded the largest assemblage of bulb retouchers (n = 159) currently known, allowing a detailed investigation of this poorly known phenomenon. A...
We present a new example of bone engraving dated to ca 130 kys ago. It was retrieved from the Unit III at the Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Nesher Ramla (Israel). The incised bone was found within a small round feature (around 50 cm in diameter) composed of few flint artifacts, stones (manuports) and dense in faunal remains. The zooarchaeolog...
Thanks to the fast burial and the minor post-depositional disturbances and deformations, the Unit III at Nesher Ramla (dated to ca.130 ky) is characterized by a great preservation of the archaeological features and has yielded more than 27000 flint artifacts, several thousand of faunal remains, numerous combustion features and other anthropogenic f...
Tens of thousands of fish bones were recovered from the Final Natufian (Late Epipaleolithic) layer of the site of
Eynan/Ain Mallaha (Northern Israel) dated to the end of the Pleistocene. Almost a hundred of them were attributed
to a Salmoninae, most probably a trout Salmo cf. trutta. This is the southernmost attestation of a Salmo
species in the Ne...
A recently discovered site at Nesher Ramla, Israel (170–80 ka BP) is an open-air, eight-meter-thick Middle Paleolithic sequence situated in a deep karst sinkhole that acted as a sedimentary basin in which colluvial deposition was intermittent with in situ human activities. Presence of combustion features, excellent preservation of lithic artifacts...
The Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Nesher Ramla (Israel), located in a funnel-shaped depression, differs from other Levantine cave and open-air sites in the geomorphological settings and formation processes and thus provides a unique opportunity to study hominids adaptations in a different context. The large lithic assemblage from the Unit III...
