Tiffanie FourcadeMuséum National d'Histoire Naturelle · Homme et Environnement
Tiffanie Fourcade
Ph.D
Postdoc in palynology and climate reconstruction at UMR 7194 HNHP
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Introduction
My research focuses on environment-technology relationship during the Late Middle Palaeolithic and Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southwestern and southeastern France. Using two marine sediment cores, I study climatic and environmental changes from pollen grains. I am improving the chronology of these changes by luminescence dating on marine sediments cores and updating a critical database to model the chronology of technological changes using Bayesian statistics.
Skills and Expertise
Additional affiliations
September 2018 - September 2022
Position
- PhD student
Description
- My PhD aimed to better correlate environmental, climate and cultural changes during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in France, by combining pollen analysis of two deep-sea cores, luminescence dating on marine sediment, archaeological databases and Bayesian chronological modelling.
October 2022 - May 2024
Position
- Post-doc
Description
- The aim of my postdoc is to document the vegetation and climate changes during the last 30 000 years in the northwestern Mediterranean borderlands through the pollen study of MD99-2343 marine core and to improve its chronology through new luminescence dating.
Education
September 2018 - September 2022
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Field of study
- Archaeological sciences
September 2016 - June 2018
September 2013 - June 2016
Publications
Publications (10)
The massive North Atlantic iceberg discharges of the last glacial period, the so-called Heinrich events (HE), resulted in atmospheric and oceanic responses of the Mediterranean region that remain poorly documented and understood. This paper focuses on the climatic phases termed Heinrich stadials (HS) 4 and 5 generated by the HE 4 and 5 that occurre...
Evaluating synchronies between climate and cultural changes is a prerequisite for addressing the possible effect of environmental changes on human populations. Searching for synchronies during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition (ca. 48–36 ka) is hampered by the limits of radiocarbon dating techniques and the large chronological uncertainties a...
Deep-sea pollen records from the Western European margin show that during the Last Glacial period (115-27 ka), regional vegetation oscillated between steppe and open forest in response to the millennial scale climate variability, Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles and Heinrich events (HE), and that the magnitude of the forest expansions during D-O war...
The study of Neanderthal-Environment interactions very often lacks precise data that match the chrono-geographical frame of human activities. Here, we reconstruct Neanderthals’ hunting grounds within three distinct habitats using dental microwear analysis combined with zooarchaeological data. The predation patterns toward ungulates are discussed in...
Determining the impact of climatic variations on past human cultural changes is a difficult task due to the chronological uncertainties inherent to the dating methods applied to archaeological and paleoclimatic archives, and by the different temporal resolution of both archives.
Here, we present two high-resolution pollen-based palaeoenvironmental...
Deep-sea and terrestrial records allow to document the amplitude, timing and duration of the oceanic and vegetation responses to orbital and millennial-scale changes, in particular during North Atlantic cooling events (Heinrich events, HEs) in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Period (~115- 27 ka).
We propose a multiproxy study based on two de...
Ce travail a pour but d’améliorer la résolution temporelle des séquences paléoenvironnementales et de leurs chronologies ainsi que la chronologie des différents technocomplexes et cultures du sud de la France de la fin du Paléolithique moyen au début du Paléolithique supérieur. À cette fin, deux études multiproxy ont été menées, utilisant deux caro...
