Sophie GrégoireUniversité de Perpignan | UPVD · HNHP UMR 7194 CNRS MNHN Equipe DisCo
Sophie Grégoire
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January 2014 - December 2026
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To present a new dental specimen that will provide additional evidence for a better understanding of early European Upper Pleistocene hominin morphological variability. We described the morphology of this human right lower third molar at both the outer enamel surface and the enamel–dentine junction by means of micro‐computed tomography. In order to...
The presence of bifacial tools for more than 1.5 Ma in African and Eurasian archaeological assemblages raises questions as to why this was so successful. One of the explanations often put forward is the ability to resharpen or recycle these voluminous tools, allowing them to be used over a long period of time. An additional argument is that techno-...
Situated in southern Spain's Guadix-Baza basin, Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Andalusia, Spain) are two of the most important western European Oldowan archeological sites. After 30 years of quasi-uninterrupted excavations, these two occurrences have yielded exceptional lithic and faunal records in precisely dated stratigraphic situations,...
Up to now, little was known about the Middle Palaeolithic from the Hérault Valley (France). Recently, systematic surveys have led to the discovery of several surface stations on river terraces. Some of these have yielded stone tools made from unusual raw materials, such as, brecciated quartzites and jasper-like rocks, as well as quartz and rare fli...
SCHOPPER ANR project aim to develop a method to test research hypotheses using Machine Learning and immersives virtual environments. After 54 years of excavations, the Caune de l’Arago cave delivers a large amount of raw data and many archaeometric databases were developed through the study of this Lower Paleolithic site. The current tests focused...
Technical and socio-economic behaviours of Middle Pleistocene human groups in Western Europe still remain under-studied. In addition to the so-called Acheulean industries that include bifacial tools, other lithic traditions that are focused on flake production are present. This is the case of the ‘L’ stratigraphic layer of the Caune de l’Arago site...
La découverte d’une mandibule néandertalienne dans la grotte du Boquete de Zafarraya en1983, fut à l’origine de l’extraordinaire recherche pluridisciplinaire engagée par Cecilio Barroso-Ruíz et Henry de Lumley et menée par plusieurs équipes espagnoles et françaises, appartenant à différentes universités et institutions scientifiques.
Principaux résultats :
Cette campagne de fouille 2020 au Portel-Ouest avait pour objectif de préciser l’organisation sédimentaire des complexes moustériens (inférieur et supérieur) et des complexes du Paléolithique supérieur, mais aussi de mettre au jour des niveaux d’occupations anthropiques datant du Paléolithique moyen. Dans ce cadre, trois zon...
The beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic in Western Europe is traditionally associated with the emergence of new, more complex and standardised debitage technologies, such as Levallois technology. These changes occurred in the archaeological record between MIS 9 and MIS 6. This paper aims to evaluate the processes of technical change at work in Sou...
This paper presents new archaeological material and first dates on Upper Pleistocene layers at the site of La Crouzade cave (Gruissan, Aude, France). The site was first excavated by T. and P. Héléna at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the excavations were recently completed during three years (2016–2018) of systematic campaigns.We obtain...
At present there is an intense research for developing alternative sensible heat storage materials, such as natural rocks and recycled ceramics, able to work in concentrated solar power plants at high temperatures. This work demonstrates the potential of flint rocks as an economic and efficient filler material to be used with air as heat transfer f...
From the earliest traces to the end of the Acheulean in the Prehistory of France
Discoveries of the two last decades in Eurasia renew the knowledge on the earliest evidence of occupations. France widely contributes to the understanding of these periods, and since the publication in 1976 of the three volumes of La Préhistoire Française, the number o...
Ramandils cave (Port-la-Nouvelle, Aude, France) is a coastal site in the northwest margin of the Mediterranean Basin systematically excavated between 1983 and 1994 by Paul Boutié and his team (Boutié et al., 1994). This deposit delivered an abundance of lithic industry characterized by a continuous and small typical Mousterian facies of the Middle...
En Europe de l’Ouest, entre 650 ka et 300 ka, un manque d’informations et de reconnaissance de l’importance de la production d’éclats comme supports d’outils au regard du phénomène bifacial est évident. En effet, que révèle la pluralité des industries à éclats d’Europe de l’Ouest au Paléolithique inférieur et quels liens entretiennent-elles sur le...
The site of La Micoque (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne), is known as the Micoquian and the Tayacien techno-complexes’s type site. The site also yielded levels from the early Middle Palaeolithic in the Perigord. In this rich sequence, the layer L2/3, correlated to MIS 10 and described by F. Bordes as a Southern Acheulean, yielded an industry almost e...
The site of La Micoque (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne), is known as the Micoquian and the Tayacien techno-complexes’s type site. The site also yielded levels from the early Middle Palaeolithic in the Perigord. In this rich sequence, the layer L2/3, correlated to MIS 10 and described by F. Bordes as a Southern Acheulean, yielded an industry almost e...
L’Unité Archéostratigraphique G (UA G), située à la base de l’ensemble stratigraphique CIII du remplissage de la Caune de l’Arago, datée à 438 ± 31 ka et corrélée au stade isotopique 12, a livré de nombreux restes humains attribués à Homo erectus tautavelensis, ainsi qu’une faune et une industrie lithique abondantes. Il est possible d’observer au s...
The Archaeostratigraphic Unit G (UA G), located at the base of the stratigraphie ensemble CIII of the Caune de l'Arago infilling, dated to 438± 31 ka and correlated to the isotopic stage 12, delivered numerous human remains attributed to Homo erectus tautavelensis, as well as abundant fauna and lithics., delivered numerous human remains attributed...
La Caune de l’Arago renferme plusieurs dizaines d’unités archéostratigraphiques riches en matériel d’origine anthropique. La subdivision des niveaux, bien que perfectible par nature, montre une variété importante qui révèle la diversité des comportements techniques et de subsistance au cours du temps.
En raison de la forte composante génétique et de leur bonne conservation, les dents revêtent un intérêt tout particulier en paléoanthropologie. L’utilisation des techniques récentes d’imagerie (μCT-scan) a permis de mettre en évidence une relative proximité morphologique entre la surface externe de l’émail (SEE) et la jonction émail dentine (JED),...
Résumé : Entre 700 000 et 100 000 ans, soit pendant toute la durée du Pléistocène moyen, quinze mètres de dépôts sédimentaires se sont accumulés dans la vaste Caune de l’Arago. Ce remplissage a livré, en cinquante ans de fouilles méthodiques, les témoignages de nombreux sols d’occupation humaine et d’associations de faunes locales successives. En l...
The cave of Le Portel-Ouest (Loubens, France) is the only site in Ariege that contains a stratigraphic sequence that extends from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic. Between 1949 and 1985, 33 human remains were discovered (dental, cranial and postcranial remains) in successive Mousterian layers dating from the end of IOS 3 (44 ky). Thi...
Résumé Le site de la Rouquette est situé sur la commune de Puycelsi dans le Nord du Tarn. C'est un site de plein air, de pied de falaise, qui surplombe un affluent de l'Aveyron, la Vère. La fouille a mis au jour sept couches archéologiques uniquement moustériennes. Les industries montrent l'utilisation des silex et des quartz-quartzites en quantité...
que reflejan la depredación selectiva. La fauna se puede correlacionar con las asociaciones faunísticas de Europa de finales del Pleistoceno Medio a principios del Pleistoceno Superior. El conjunto lítico de la cueva del Ángel parece encajar dentro de la diversidad regional de una bien desarrollada industria no-Levallois del Achelense Final. Una es...
que reflejan la depredación selectiva. La fauna se puede correlacionar con las asociaciones faunísticas de Europa de finales del Pleistoceno Medio a principios del Pleistoceno Superior. El conjunto lítico de la cueva del Ángel parece encajar dentro de la diversidad regional de una bien desarrollada industria no-Levallois del Achelense Final. Una es...
BARROSO RUIZ Cecilio, Daniel BOTELLA ORTEGA, Miguel CAPARROS, Anne Marie MOIGNE, Vincenzo CELIBERTI, Antonio MONCLOVA BOHORQUEZ, Luisa PINEDA CABELLO, Guadalupe MONGE GOMEZ, Agnès TESTU, Deborah BARSKY, Olivier NOTTER, José Antonio RIQUELME CANTAL, Manuel POZO RODRIGUEZ, María Isabel CARRETERO LEON, Samir KHATIB, Thibaud SAOS, Sophie GREGOIRE, Salv...
El sitio arqueológico de la cueva del Ángel es una secuencia sedimentaria al aire libre, resultante del derrumbe de una cueva y parte de un complejo kárstico. La asociación faunística, dominada por équidos, grandes bóvidos y cérvidos, ha sido objeto de intensas acciones antrópicas que reflejan la depredación selectiva. La fauna se puede correlacion...
La grotte Mézmaiskaya est un des sites majeurs du Paléolithique du Nord-ouest du Caucase, où les industries sont présentes à partir du Paléolithique moyen (73/63-40 Ka), puis au Paléolithique supérieur (39-28 Ka) et à l’Épipaléolithique (13-12 Ka). Cet article présente les résultats des études pétroarchéologiques qui révèlent la provenance des roch...
The Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 sites are located in the Guadix-Baza Basin in Orce (Andalusia, Spain) about 80 km from the Mediterranean Sea. The sites were accumulated in swampy areas near the paleo-lake Baza’s eastern shoreline. There, hominins and hyenas competed for access to large herbivore carcasses abandoned by carnivores. The ages of t...
The Cueva del Angel archaeological site is an open-air sedimentary sequence, remnant of a collapsed cave and part of a karst complex. The faunal assemblage dominated by Equus ferus, large bovids and cervids has been subjected to intense anthropic actions reflecting selective predation. The fauna may be correlated with European faunistic association...
BARROSO R. C., ORTEGA BOTELLA D., MOIGNE A.-M., RIQUELME CANTAL J.-A., CAPARROS M., CELIBERTI V., NOTTER O., BARSKY D., ASTIER N., GREGOIRE S ., BOULBES N., GARCIA SOLANO J.- A. , POSO RODRIGUEZ M., CARRETERO LEON M.-I., MONGE GOMEZ G., TESTU A., SAOS T., KHATIB S., BERTIN L., FILOUX A., MOUTOSSAMY J., MILIZIA C., HANQUET C., ROSSONI E ., BAILON S....
ABSTRACT: Les Sites de Barranco Léon et de Fuente Nueva 3, à Orce, dans le Bassin de Guadix-Baza, Povince de Grenade, en Andalousie, ont livré des industries lithiques archaïques qui sont parmi les plus anciennes actuellement connues en Europe, découvertes dans un contexte stratigraphique bien daté. Elles nous apprennent que l'Homme était déjà prés...
The carved stele known as the “head of the tribe”, attributed to the Chalcolithic, erected at an altitude of 2290 m in the chaos of blocks in the Merveilles torrent in the Mont Bego region at Tende, was removed from its original standing place. Earth extracted from under the stele and sieved yielded a sickle blade in very fine and homogeneous Bedou...
The multidisciplinary study presented below, based on archaeological data available from the important stratigraphic sequence conserved in the " ditch " from the site of Hortus, provides new data concerning subsistence strategies of succeeding Neanderthal hunter-gatherer groups who occupied the site. Our aim is to bring to light the major tendencie...
Les Sites de Barranco Léon et de Fuente Nueva 3, à Orce, dans le Bassin de Guadix-Baza, Povince de Grenade, en Andalousie, ont livré des industries lithiques archaïques qui sont parmi les plus anciennes actuellement connues en Europe, découvertes dans un contexte stratigraphique bien daté. Elles nous apprennent que l'Homme était déjà présent dans l...
Lithics from Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 in Orce, Spain (respectively 1.3 and 1.2 Ma according to paleomagnetic and biochronological criteria) provide information about the oldest known European Mode 1 assemblages. At these sites, both located in what were swampy areas close to the eastern shores of the Baza paleo-lake, evidence points towards...
The archaic lithic industries of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva sites in Orce in Andalusia and the stone tools of the Vallonnet french site was studied by petroarcheological analyses and reveal the sources exploited by the hominids. The localisation of these sources give data to define the territory exploited. These three examples provide the oppor...
The archaeological localities of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva3 in Orce, Grenade, in actuality have the oldest lithic artifacts in Europe; they are the oldest evidence of human occupation in the east of Europe. When compared the results from faunal analysis and magnetostratigraphical study, notably through the presence of Allophaiomys lavocati all...
Résumé La Caune de l'Arago (Pyrénées-orientales, France) renferme un épais remplissage quaternaire, daté de 690 000 à 90 000 ans. Les dépôts accumulés dans la grotte recèlent une quinzaine de niveaux archéostratigraphiques bien distincts, correspondant à des occupations préhistoriques. Pendant les différentes époques d'occupation de la grotte, cett...