Olivier Tombret
Biographic Data
| ID | 159188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier Tombret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | Tombret |
| SIGNATURE | TOMBRET O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6187-6706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sima del Elefante (Atapuerca, Spain)
New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key-fossil for European human evolution
New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution
Assigning an age to the nearly complete cranium found in the Petralona Cave in Greece is of outstanding importance because this fossil has a key position in European human evolution. This topic has been debated since its discovery more than 60 years ago, highlighting the difficulties in applying physical dating methods to prehistoric samples. Previous results obtained on various types of samples yielded a large age range between about 170 and 700…
Plio-Quaternary coastal uplift along the western Iberian Margin
This study presents a detailed geomorphological and geochronological analysis of a marine terrace staircase developed into the Peniche Peninsula (Portugal), a rocky headland of Jurassic carbonate bedrock located in the central sector of the Western Iberian passive margin. The marine terrace levels are described morphologically and sedimentologically, but also dated using ESR and U-Series methodologies. The marine terrace staircase comprises six e…
An integrative study of new environmental and cultural data from the Hoabinhian of Laang Spean Cave (Cambodia) including modern human remains
Although the Hoabinhian culture is renowned for its unifacial pebble tools and its discovery dates back more than a century, only a handful of sites provide complete information on this period. The site of Laang Spean, in Cambodia, has recently been described as a burial cave for the Neolithic period, but it was previously known as an emblematic Hoabinhian site for Cambodia. More comprehensive studies indicate that it offers a wide window onto th…
Qaleh Kurd Cave (Qazvin, Iran)
Le site épipaléolithique de Pakhtomena (Armenokhori)
1. La mission 2019-2022 dans son contexte historique : continuités, renouvellements, perspectives \n1.1.Bref historique de la Mission Néolithisation de 2009 à 2021 \n1.2. À la recherche de l’Épipaléolithique et du PPNA ancien de Chypre \n2. Résultats de la campagne de fouille à Pakhtomena (mai 2022) \n2.1. Logistique, stratégie et méthodes \n2.2. Le secteur TD2: Stratigraphie et pédogénèse; Le dispositif de pierres St 200‐204 \n2.3. Le secteur ce…
Testing the Use of Xad Resin to Remove Synthetic Contamination From Archaeological Bone Prior to Radiocarbon Dating
Museum collections are extremely valuable sources of material for ongoing research, although the conservation history of some objects is not always recorded, which can be problematic for chemical analyses. While most contamination is removed using the acid-base-acid treatment, this may not be the case for cross-linked contamination. The XAD resin protocol was implemented at the radiocarbon ( 14 C) laboratory in the Muséum national d’Histoire natu…
New discoveries and re-discoveries of human remains from the late Middle Pleistocene
The fame of the prehistoric sites of Montmaurin is based on the discovery in 1949 of a human mandible of archaic morphology appearance, now curated at the Musée de l’Homme. It comes from a karstic chimney called La Niche. Nearby is the Coupe-Gorge cave, which is larger than the Niche, although it was cut off by a quarry, and in which Louis Méroc undertook excavations with his team from 1946 to 1961. He uncovered some human remains which were late…
Kanyimangin
The Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT) is characterised by major environmental changes and evolutionary innovations within the genus Homo but the scarcity of the African EMPT fossil and archaeological records obscures its palaeoecological context. Here, we present archaeological and faunal evidence from a newly excavated West-Turkana EMPT site-Kanyimangin
An Early Inuit Workshop at aQassi, a Men's House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
International audience
Standardization procedure to provide a unified multi-method elemental compositional dataset, application to ferruginous colouring matters from Namibia
Curation of archaeological materials often leads to carrying out multi-analytical methodologies that combine non-invasive and invasive elemental analyses. Such materials are often analysed with different techniques. It results in the production of complementary but apparently non-compatible compositional datasets that cannot be easily compared. In the present paper, we propose to compare results acquired on geological ferruginous colouring matter…
Stable Isotopic Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating of Micropogonias Furnieri Otoliths (Sciaenidae) From Southeastern Brazilian Coast
Isotopic analysis of Micropogonias furnieri otoliths were used to get insight into palaeoceanographic conditions in the Guanabara Bay and Saquarema Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro state (RJ), located on the southeastern coast of Brazil, under upwelling influence of the Cabo Frio system. Archaeological otoliths come from two Holocene shellmounds (or sambaquis ): Galeão and Beirada. For the first time, radiocarbon analysis using high accuracy techniques wer…
The Trans-Evol project
The Trans-Evol project (Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition: Evolution and diversity of African hominin fossil populations) is a collaboration between the CNRS, the National Museums of Kenya and the University of Cambridge. The project is opening new archaeological excavations in West-Turkana (Kenya) to document the behavioural, cognitive and morphological diversity of hominin populations during the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT…
Datation des sites acheuléens par ESR et ESR/U-Th au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, un état des lieux
L’Acheuléen et la technologie de façonnage bifacial qui lui est associée sont, en Europe occidentale, caractéristiques des assemblages lithiques du Pléistocène moyen, période comprise entre environ 780 000 et 130 000 ans pour laquelle l’obtention d’âges numériques a longtemps été difficile. Depuis le début des années 1980, grâce au développement des méthodes paléodosimétriques de la résonance de spin électronique (ESR) ou de l’ESR combinée à la m…
Identification génétique et datation radiocarbone de restes osseux de cerf, de renne et de bison des steppes d’une sépulture moustérienne (La Ferrassie 8, Dordogne, France)
Afin d’obtenir de nouvelles informations sur le contexte d’enfouissement de l’enfant néandertalien nommé La Ferrassie 8, nous avons analysé des restes indéterminés du locus où le squelette humain partiel a été découvert. Notre étude porte sur 20 esquilles osseuses où la présence d’ADN de 10 espèces, dont Néandertal, a été recherchée au moyen de tests spécifiques d’amplification génique (PCR en temps réel) de fragments du génome mitochondrial. Nou…
ESR and ESR/U-series chronology of the Middle Pleistocene site of Tourville-la-Rivière (Normandy, France) - A multi-laboratory approach
Reconstruction of the MIS 5.5, 5.3 and 5.1 coastal terraces in Latium (central Italy)
Combined US-ESR dating of fossil teeth from El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco)
Can we identify the Mexican hairless dog in the archaeological record? Morphological and genetic insights from Tizayuca, Basin of Mexico
Ar/39Ar and ESR/U-series data for the La Polledrara di Cecanibbio archaeological site (Lazio, Italy)
Nouvel examen des ossements humains de Moulin Quignon (Somme, France). Étude anthropologique, taphonomique et première datation par le radiocarbone
Moulin Quignon
The emergence of the Neolithic in North Africa
New ESR/U-series dates in Yabrudian and Amudian layers at Qesem Cave, Israel
New ESR/U-series dates in Yabrudian and Amudian layers at Qesem Cave, Israel
Ar/39Ar and ESR/U-series data for the La Polledrara di Cecanibbio archaeological site (Lazio, Italy)
Combined US-ESR dating of fossil teeth from El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco)
Qaleh Kurd Cave (Qazvin, Iran)
Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago
Renewed in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of a large coastal mound settlement in Peru has extended the occupation back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP. Research by the authors has chronicled the prehistoric sequence from the activities of the first maritime foragers to the construction of the black mound and the introduction of horticulture and monumentality. The community of Huaca Prieta emerges as innovative…
Can we identify the Mexican hairless dog in the archaeological record? Morphological and genetic insights from Tizayuca, Basin of Mexico
New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution
Assigning an age to the nearly complete cranium found in the Petralona Cave in Greece is of outstanding importance because this fossil has a key position in European human evolution. This topic has been debated since its discovery more than 60 years ago, highlighting the difficulties in applying physical dating methods to prehistoric samples. Previous results obtained on various types of samples yielded a large age range between about 170 and 700…
An integrative study of new environmental and cultural data from the Hoabinhian of Laang Spean Cave (Cambodia) including modern human remains
Although the Hoabinhian culture is renowned for its unifacial pebble tools and its discovery dates back more than a century, only a handful of sites provide complete information on this period. The site of Laang Spean, in Cambodia, has recently been described as a burial cave for the Neolithic period, but it was previously known as an emblematic Hoabinhian site for Cambodia. More comprehensive studies indicate that it offers a wide window onto th…
An Early Inuit Workshop at aQassi, a Men's House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
International audience
Standardization procedure to provide a unified multi-method elemental compositional dataset, application to ferruginous colouring matters from Namibia
Curation of archaeological materials often leads to carrying out multi-analytical methodologies that combine non-invasive and invasive elemental analyses. Such materials are often analysed with different techniques. It results in the production of complementary but apparently non-compatible compositional datasets that cannot be easily compared. In the present paper, we propose to compare results acquired on geological ferruginous colouring matter…
Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago
Renewed in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of a large coastal mound settlement in Peru has extended the occupation back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP. Research by the authors has chronicled the prehistoric sequence from the activities of the first maritime foragers to the construction of the black mound and the introduction of horticulture and monumentality. The community of Huaca Prieta emerges as innovative…
New ESR/U-series dates in Yabrudian and Amudian layers at Qesem Cave, Israel
Nouvel examen des ossements humains de Moulin Quignon (Somme, France). Étude anthropologique, taphonomique et première datation par le radiocarbone
Moulin Quignon
The emergence of the Neolithic in North Africa
Ar/39Ar and ESR/U-series data for the La Polledrara di Cecanibbio archaeological site (Lazio, Italy)
Can we identify the Mexican hairless dog in the archaeological record? Morphological and genetic insights from Tizayuca, Basin of Mexico
Reconstruction of the MIS 5.5, 5.3 and 5.1 coastal terraces in Latium (central Italy)
Combined US-ESR dating of fossil teeth from El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco)
ESR and ESR/U-series chronology of the Middle Pleistocene site of Tourville-la-Rivière (Normandy, France) - A multi-laboratory approach
Datation des sites acheuléens par ESR et ESR/U-Th au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, un état des lieux
L’Acheuléen et la technologie de façonnage bifacial qui lui est associée sont, en Europe occidentale, caractéristiques des assemblages lithiques du Pléistocène moyen, période comprise entre environ 780 000 et 130 000 ans pour laquelle l’obtention d’âges numériques a longtemps été difficile. Depuis le début des années 1980, grâce au développement des méthodes paléodosimétriques de la résonance de spin électronique (ESR) ou de l’ESR combinée à la m…
Identification génétique et datation radiocarbone de restes osseux de cerf, de renne et de bison des steppes d’une sépulture moustérienne (La Ferrassie 8, Dordogne, France)
Afin d’obtenir de nouvelles informations sur le contexte d’enfouissement de l’enfant néandertalien nommé La Ferrassie 8, nous avons analysé des restes indéterminés du locus où le squelette humain partiel a été découvert. Notre étude porte sur 20 esquilles osseuses où la présence d’ADN de 10 espèces, dont Néandertal, a été recherchée au moyen de tests spécifiques d’amplification génique (PCR en temps réel) de fragments du génome mitochondrial. Nou…
Standardization procedure to provide a unified multi-method elemental compositional dataset, application to ferruginous colouring matters from Namibia
Curation of archaeological materials often leads to carrying out multi-analytical methodologies that combine non-invasive and invasive elemental analyses. Such materials are often analysed with different techniques. It results in the production of complementary but apparently non-compatible compositional datasets that cannot be easily compared. In the present paper, we propose to compare results acquired on geological ferruginous colouring matter…
Stable Isotopic Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating of Micropogonias Furnieri Otoliths (Sciaenidae) From Southeastern Brazilian Coast
Isotopic analysis of Micropogonias furnieri otoliths were used to get insight into palaeoceanographic conditions in the Guanabara Bay and Saquarema Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro state (RJ), located on the southeastern coast of Brazil, under upwelling influence of the Cabo Frio system. Archaeological otoliths come from two Holocene shellmounds (or sambaquis ): Galeão and Beirada. For the first time, radiocarbon analysis using high accuracy techniques wer…
The Trans-Evol project
The Trans-Evol project (Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition: Evolution and diversity of African hominin fossil populations) is a collaboration between the CNRS, the National Museums of Kenya and the University of Cambridge. The project is opening new archaeological excavations in West-Turkana (Kenya) to document the behavioural, cognitive and morphological diversity of hominin populations during the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT…
Le site épipaléolithique de Pakhtomena (Armenokhori)
1. La mission 2019-2022 dans son contexte historique : continuités, renouvellements, perspectives \n1.1.Bref historique de la Mission Néolithisation de 2009 à 2021 \n1.2. À la recherche de l’Épipaléolithique et du PPNA ancien de Chypre \n2. Résultats de la campagne de fouille à Pakhtomena (mai 2022) \n2.1. Logistique, stratégie et méthodes \n2.2. Le secteur TD2: Stratigraphie et pédogénèse; Le dispositif de pierres St 200‐204 \n2.3. Le secteur ce…
Testing the Use of Xad Resin to Remove Synthetic Contamination From Archaeological Bone Prior to Radiocarbon Dating
Museum collections are extremely valuable sources of material for ongoing research, although the conservation history of some objects is not always recorded, which can be problematic for chemical analyses. While most contamination is removed using the acid-base-acid treatment, this may not be the case for cross-linked contamination. The XAD resin protocol was implemented at the radiocarbon ( 14 C) laboratory in the Muséum national d’Histoire natu…
New discoveries and re-discoveries of human remains from the late Middle Pleistocene
The fame of the prehistoric sites of Montmaurin is based on the discovery in 1949 of a human mandible of archaic morphology appearance, now curated at the Musée de l’Homme. It comes from a karstic chimney called La Niche. Nearby is the Coupe-Gorge cave, which is larger than the Niche, although it was cut off by a quarry, and in which Louis Méroc undertook excavations with his team from 1946 to 1961. He uncovered some human remains which were late…
Kanyimangin
The Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT) is characterised by major environmental changes and evolutionary innovations within the genus Homo but the scarcity of the African EMPT fossil and archaeological records obscures its palaeoecological context. Here, we present archaeological and faunal evidence from a newly excavated West-Turkana EMPT site-Kanyimangin
An Early Inuit Workshop at aQassi, a Men's House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
International audience
An integrative study of new environmental and cultural data from the Hoabinhian of Laang Spean Cave (Cambodia) including modern human remains
Although the Hoabinhian culture is renowned for its unifacial pebble tools and its discovery dates back more than a century, only a handful of sites provide complete information on this period. The site of Laang Spean, in Cambodia, has recently been described as a burial cave for the Neolithic period, but it was previously known as an emblematic Hoabinhian site for Cambodia. More comprehensive studies indicate that it offers a wide window onto th…
Qaleh Kurd Cave (Qazvin, Iran)
New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution
Assigning an age to the nearly complete cranium found in the Petralona Cave in Greece is of outstanding importance because this fossil has a key position in European human evolution. This topic has been debated since its discovery more than 60 years ago, highlighting the difficulties in applying physical dating methods to prehistoric samples. Previous results obtained on various types of samples yielded a large age range between about 170 and 700…
Plio-Quaternary coastal uplift along the western Iberian Margin
This study presents a detailed geomorphological and geochronological analysis of a marine terrace staircase developed into the Peniche Peninsula (Portugal), a rocky headland of Jurassic carbonate bedrock located in the central sector of the Western Iberian passive margin. The marine terrace levels are described morphologically and sedimentologically, but also dated using ESR and U-Series methodologies. The marine terrace staircase comprises six e…
Sima del Elefante (Atapuerca, Spain)
Archaeology (20 works) · Geography (20 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Geology (11 works) · Paleontology (10 works) · Pleistocene (10 works) · Biology (7 works) · Cave (7 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 works)