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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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 rdcu.be/euOc6 @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social #climate #culture #landscape #model #human

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

#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. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/newslette...

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

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...

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

[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. 👉 youtu.be/sHGPPNF58NA #FeteDeLaMusique 🎶

Avec la participation de P.-Y. Milcent, qui présente les fouilles de Jenzat

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

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

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

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) @icta-uab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/agen...

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 🏺 🧪

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

Thank you! 🙏

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

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

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

New shirts for our research project in Botswana Homini’karst. We are preparing a book about caves with the Botswana National Museum team. #archaeology #karst #geomorphology #geology #Africa #paleontology @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social

We are back in #Botswana for our researches about Human origins. So wonderful caves to explore and new sites to discover with the Botswana National Museum team. #archaeology #karst #geomorphology #geology #Africa #paleontology @cnrs.fr @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Le 12/05 séminaire de l'axe géoarchéologie "Dégradation et développement des sols pédologiques en Afrique de l’Est" (org. C. Pallier @inrap.fr et @laurentbruxelles.bsky.social @cnrs.fr) traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/agen...

Nature's secret artists! Biocorrosion has polished these cave walls, and the thick dark bacterial biofilm above is still actively reshaping the underground world. @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr #bats #biocorrosion #caving #science #geology #ecology

|✨ Alerte Publication! ✨| Notre dernier article en #pyroarchaeologie vient d'être publié avec @springernature.com dans le #JournalOfArchaeologicalMethodAndTheory! -> Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis 🔥 À lire gratuitement ici : rdcu.be/ehqag

Merci aux organisateurs du 25e colloque du GMPCA #rouen pour m’avoir invité à donner une keynote sur les méthodes développées autour de nos recherches en Afrique du Sud #archéologie #préhistoire #karst #géologie @univrouen.bsky.social @metropolerouenn.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social

And now 3.4 million years ils thanks to recent cosmogenic dating www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

En cours, très belle conférence de Dominique Cliquet sur les occupations néandertaliennes révélées par l’érosion littorale en #Normandie dans le cadre du 25e colloque du GMPCA #rouen #neandertal #archéologie #préhistoire #littoral #Manche @univrouen.bsky.social @metropolerouenn.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Many thanks to the Romanian, Swiss, and Italian team for this fruitful collaboration. We successfully collected two substantial cores of bat guano from Sura Mare Cave, #Romania. We are now beginning the search for paleoenvironmental insights @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social

Caving in Sura Mare Cave, #Romania, to search for bat guano and quartz sediments at higher levels—deposited by an ancient river—for cosmogenic dating #cave #karst #bats #science #geology #geomorphology #dating #river #water #biocorrosion @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social

Way back after bat guano coring in Sura Mare cave #romania #cave #karst #bats #science #geology #geomorphology @cnrs.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social

These features look like classical karst formations, but these cupolas are actually the result of biocorrosion caused by bats. Cioclovina Cave in #Romania is a fascinating example of how bat colonies can reshape a cave! #karst #bats #cave #biocorrosion #Transylvania @umr5608traces.bsky.social

Geoarchaeology in caves requires caving skills to access archaeological sites. At the bottom of this 20m shaft, an interesting Neolithic site was discovered, which at the time was accessible through a different entrance @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrs.fr #karst #archaeology #caving #Gard #Occitanie

The Karst Record 10 international conference continues in #Capetown, after our fieldtrip on Sterkfontein caves last week. We exchange about #karst #climat #isotopes #geology #geomophology #environment #archaelogy #stratigraphy #sediments etc. @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Find for free our last paper about a Pleistocene #dog found in La Traoucade cave in #Ardèche, France. This nearly complete skeleton (16.0–15.3 cal ka BP) raise the question of relationships between canids & #magdalenian human groups authors.elsevier.com/a/1ko5T-4PSD... @umr5608traces.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to lead a team of karst scientists in Sterkfontein caves #SouthAfrica, in the framework of the #karst record 10 international conference. We discussed about flowstone, #stratigraphy and #dating @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrs.fr #geology #geomorphology #archaeology #paleontology

Join us Thursday for a session with Professor Andreas Maier (University of Cologne) on "Population dynamics and demographic insights of the European Upper and Final Palaeolithic" in our "Current Debates in Prehistory" course. 20/02/2025, 11 AM–1 PM at the Museum of Prehistory.

Intéressante journée de l'archéologie en Lorraine à Bliesbruck-Reinheim (Moselle), vendredi dernier

V. Ard a été récompensé par le prix Clio pour la recherche archéologique française à l’étranger, pour le travail de son équipe dans le cadre de la mission "Abaya. Paysage mégalithique en Éthiopie méridionale" @cnrs.fr @meganeo.bsky.social traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/agen...