N Mercier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 28617 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Mercier |
| NOMBRES | N |
| APELLIDO | Mercier |
| FIRMA | MERCIER N |
| AFILIACIONES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6375-9108 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 88 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1802 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 25 |
Bone retouchers and end-scrapers side by side at Bushman Rock Shelter
A growing body of archaeological data points towards distinct cultural innovations during Marine Isotopic Stage (MIS) 5 in Africa. At Bushman Rock Shelter in South Africa, we described previously a large corpus of end-scrapers that constitute a technological novelty in the context of MIS 5 developments. Here, we describe 25 bones with impressions collected from the same deposits. Middle Stone Age layers at the site represent a succession of disti…
Chapitre 2. Les datations par luminescence
La découverte de feuilles de laurier et de pointes à cran a permis, dès la phase de terrain, d’attribuer le matériel exhumé au techno-complexe solutréen, des datations radiométriques ont par ailleurs été réalisées. Des pièces en silex chauffées ont été datées par thermoluminescence (TL) tandis que des datations des dépôts sédimentaires ont été menées par luminescence stimulée optiquement (OSL). Les résultats obtenus par ces deux méthodes de datat…
Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000-80,000 years ago
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 intergroup interactions could have homogenized mid-MP behaviour. Here we report on our discoveries …
Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France
Determining the extent of overlap between modern humans and other hominins in Eurasia, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, is fundamental to understanding the nature of their interactions and what led to the disappearance of archaic hominins. Apart from a possible sporadic pulse recorded in Greece during the Middle Pleistocene, the first settlements of modern humans in Europe have been constrained to ~45,000 to 43,000 years ago. Here, we report …
A refined chronology for the Middle and early Upper Paleolithic sequence of Riparo Mochi (Liguria, Italy)
The Riparo Mochi rock shelter, located on the Ligurian coast of Italy, is one of the most important early Upper Paleolithic sites on the Mediterranean rim. Its ∼10-m-deep stratigraphy comprises a Mousterian sequence, followed by various development stages of the Upper Paleolithic. A series of radiometric dates on marine shells bearing traces of human modification has provided a chronological framework for the final Mousterian and the Proto-Aurign…
Reappraisal of the chronology of Orgnac 3 Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic site (Ardèche, France), a regional key sequence for the Middle Pleistocene of southern France
Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene
Neanderthal settlement of the Central Balkans during MIS 5
Luminescence dating estimates for the coastal MSA sequence of Hoedjiespunt 1 (South Africa)
A West African Middle Stone Age site dated to the beginning of MIS 5
The Ravin Blanc I archaeological occurrence, dated to MIS 5, provides unprecedented data on the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of West Africa since well-contextualized archaeological sites pre-dating MIS 4/3 are extremely rare for this region. The combined approach on geomorphology, phytolith analysis, and OSL date estimations offers a solid framework for the MSA industry comprised in the Ravin Blanc I sedimentary sequence. The paleoenvironmental reconst…
OSL chronology of socio-ecological systems during the mid-Holocene in the eastern coast of the Sultanate of Oman (Arabian Peninsula)
New Data from Shovakh Cave and Its Implications for Reconstructing Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Amud Drainage, Israel
This study presents the geoarchaeological and geochronological aspects of Shovakh Cave and the first comparative context to the nearby Amud Cave (~ 500 m downstream), providing an exceptional opportunity to explore the range of human behaviours within a small geographic area. Sediment samples from two newly excavated areas at the rear and entrance of the cave were analysed using infrared spectroscopy, micromorphology and phytolith analysis and da…
First contribution of the excavation and chronostratigraphic study of the Ruways 1 Neolithic shell midden (Oman) in terms of Neolithisation, palaeoeconomy, social‐environmental interactions and site f…
The NeoArabia project tries to understand how environmental, social, economic and technological factors work in concert to influence settlement and abandonment along a latitudinal transect of 1200 km from UAE to southern Oman. This region was affected by wide north–south variations in the Indo‐Arabian monsoon, marine upwelling activity and eustatic variations in the Mid‐Holocene. On the local settlement scale, this transect is based on fine strat…
Datation des sites préhistoriques
Depuis les années 1980, les méthodes de datation utilisées en Préhistoire se sont diversifiées et les géochronologues disposent aujourd’hui d’un large panel applicable à des échantillons variés tant du point de vue de leur nature que de leur âge, ce qui a contribué, en collaboration avec les archéologues et les paléo-anthropologues, à préciser le cadre chronologique de l’évolution biologique et culturelle de l’Homme. Les principaux progrès techni…
Occupations humaines et chronostratigraphie du gisement pléistocène d’Illiers-Combray (Eure-et-Loir, France) De nouveaux éléments pour le SIM 5b
Between 2012 and 2015, five successive archaeological campaigns were led by the Department of archaeology of Eure-et-Loir, on the Illiers-Combray plateau, 1 km to the east of the river Loir. Middle Palaeolithic remains were discovered in a Pleistocene loess-palaeosoils sequence, extending over an area of more than 10 km 2 . This Early Weichselian site constitutes a major discovery, due to the good preservation of the artefacts and the sparse data…
New electron spin resonance (ESR) ages from Geißenklösterle Cave
The earliest modern humans outside Africa
Earliest modern humans out of Africa Recent paleoanthropological studies have suggested that modern humans migrated from Africa as early as the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, 120,000 years ago. Hershkovitz et al. now suggest that early modern humans were already present outside of Africa more than 55,000 years earlier (see the Perspective by Stringer and Galway-Witham). During excavations of sediments at Mount Carmel, Israel, they found a fos…
Bibliography of Professor Krzysztof Sobczyk
Bibliography of Professor Krzysztof Sobczyk, from the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland), for the years 1973-2018 (collected on the occasion of Professors' jubilee)
Datation par les méthodes ESR/U-Th combinées de sites du Pléistocène supérieur
Apports de la datation par la luminescence des sites du Proche-Orient et résultats préliminaires du site de Nesher Ramla (Israël)
Chronologie du Paléolithique ouest africain
Vers une approche nouvelle de la dosimétrie
Chronologie du site moustérien de type Quina des Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, Charente, France)
Cet article présente une synthèse des données chronologiques du site des Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, Charente, France). Le gisement se caractérise dans son locus est par un remplissage de près de quatre mètres d’épaisseur ayant livré des dépôts de la fin du Paléolithique moyen dans lesquels une industrie moustérienne de type Quina est associée à une faune abondante largement dominée par le renne. Durant les fouilles conduites par B. Maureille e…
The complementarity of luminescence dating methods illustrated on the Mousterian sequence of the Roc de Marsal
Chronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Elands Bay Cave (South Africa) based on charcoals, burnt lithics, and sedimentary quartz and feldspar grains
A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus)
The hunting methods of the Neanderthals are rarely evident in detail in the archaeological record. Here, the rare and important discovery of a fragment of broken Levallois point, embedded in the neck-bones of a wild ass, provokes plenty of discussion of the methods of hafting and killing game in the Middle Palaeolithic of Syria
TL Dates of Burnt Flints from Jelinek's Excavations at Tabun and their Implications
TL Dates for the Neanderthal Site of the Amud Cave, Israel
Inland human settlement in southern Arabia 55,000 years ago. New evidence from the Wadi Surdud Middle Paleolithic site complex, western Yemen
New datings of Amudian layers at Qesem Cave (Israel)
The MSA sequence of Diepkloof and the history of southern African Late Pleistocene populations
Thermoluminescence dating of a Stillbay–Howiesons Poort sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa)
Tl Dating of Burnt Lithics From Blombos Cave (South Africa)
This paper presents the first TL dates for burnt quartzites and silcretes from the Still Bay layers of Blombos Cave (South Africa). These layers contained engraved ochres and marine shell beads that could be an early manifestation of symbolic and thus ‘modern’ behaviour by the Middle Stone Age humans. The procedure devised to calculate the ages is presented in detail, particularly with regard to internal microdosimetry, because the problems faced…
New evidence of early Neanderthal disappearance in the Iberian Peninsula
Dating the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Levant
How confident are we in the chronology of the transition between Howieson's Poort and Still Bay
The Middle Paleolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
A human mandible (BH-1) from the Pleistocene deposits of Mala Balanica cave (Sićevo Gorge, Niš, Serbia)
Multi-method (TL and OSL), multi-material (quartz and flint) dating of the Mousterian site of Roc de Marsal (Dordogne, France)
Thermoluminescence Date for the Mousterian Burial Site of Es-Skhul, Mt. Carmel
Dating of the Hominid ( Homo Neanderthalensis ) Remains Accumulation From El Sidrón Cave (Piloña, Asturias, North Spain)
The age of Neanderthal remains and associated sediments from El Sidrón cave has been obtained through different dating methods ( 14 CAMS, U/TH, OSL, ESR and AAR) and samples (charcoal debris, bone, tooth dentine, stalagmitic flowstone, carbonate‐rich sediments, sedimentary quartz grains, tooth enamel and land snail shells). Detrital Th contamination rendered Th/U dating analyses of flowstone unreliable. Recent 14 C contamination produced spurious…
Reassessment of TL age estimates of burnt flints from the Paleolithic site of Tabun Cave, Israel
A multi-method luminescence dating of the Palaeolithic sequence of La Ferrassie based on new excavations adjacent to the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons
New Evidence for Significant Use of Bitumen in Middle Palaeolithic Technical Systems at Umm el Tlel (Syria) around 70,000 BP
Mousterian tools with traces of bitumen on their surfaces discovered at Umm el Tlel (Syria) have been dated to 40,000 years (BP). Until now tools with traces of bitumen were known only from the 8th millennium BC, but this new discovery shows usage 30,000 years earlier. Mousterian complex VI 3, dated to 71,000-72,000 BP, has yielded fragments of black cobbles and eleven Levallois artefacts with traces of black material demonstrated to be bituminou…
The Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Layers in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel
Hayonim Cave
OSL and TL dating of the Middle Stone Age sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (South Africa)
Oldest evidence of Acheulean occupation in the Upper Seine valley (France) from an MIS 11 tufa at La Celle
The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France)
Dating the demise
Les télécommunications de groupe. Une gamme de services
Mercier Nicole, Veyret Alain, Voglimacci Catherine, IDATE. Les télécommunications de groupe. Une gamme de services. In: Réseaux, volume 3, n°10, 1985. Téléconférence. pp. 3-12
Thermoluminescence dating of the late Neanderthal remains from Saint-Césaire
La grotte Cosquer datée
Clottes Jean, Courtin Jean, Valladas Hélène, Cachier H., Mercier N., Arnold M. La grotte Cosquer datée. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 89, n°8, 1992. pp. 230-234
Thermoluminescence Date for the Mousterian Burial Site of Es-Skhul, Mt. Carmel
ESR Dating of the Last Interglacial Mousterian at Karaın Cave, Southern Turkey
La coupe de Nantois (Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France)
Les loess déposés en période glaciaire au cours du Pléistocène peuvent être datés par la méthode de la thermoluminescence (TL). L'âge de tels dépôts coïncide alors avec la remise à zéro du signal de TL due à l'exposition des minéraux au rayonnement solaire lors de leur transport éolien. Les premiers résultats obtenus par cette méthode, sur la fraction éolienne du quartz, ont permis de dater des sédiments d'âge allant jusqu'à 100 ka (100000 ans) e…
TL Dates of Burnt Flints from Jelinek's Excavations at Tabun and their Implications
Bitumen as a hafting material on Middle Palaeolithic artefacts
Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon
A Paleoindian campsite has been uncovered in stratified prehistoric deposits in Caverna da Pedra Pintada at Monte Alegre in the Brazilian Amazon. Fifty-six radiocarbon dates on carbonized plant remains and 13 luminescence dates on lithics and sediment indicate a late Pleistocene age contemporary with North American Paleoindians. Paintings, triangular bifacial spear points, and other tools in the cave document a culture distinct from North America…
The Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Layers in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel
Datations
Thermoluminescence Dating of a Middle Palaeolithic Occupation at Sodmein Cave, Red Sea Mountains (Egypt)
Le gisement Pléistocène moyen et supérieur d'Artenac (Saint-Mary, Charente)
This initial interdisciplinaiy synthesis is the outcome of research carried out at Artenac since /993 in the context of scheduled excavations. Its purpose is to place the impressive sequence of animal and human occupations within the depositional and post-depositional history of the cavity. During part of the Middle and early Upper Pleistocene, the cave served in turn as a den for Bears and Felines, a natural trap for animals, a Hyena lair and a …
TL Dates for the Neanderthal Site of the Amud Cave, Israel
Contribution des méthodes nucléaires à la chronologie des cultures paléolithiques entre 300 000 et 35 000 ans BP
Nous décrivons tout d'abord les principales méthodes de datation (thermoluminescence, résonance paramagnétique électronique et déséquilibres dans la famille de l'uranium) utilisées pour établir la chronologie des sites du Paléolithique moyen, en rappelant leurs difficultés et leurs limites d'application. Les résultats obtenus pour les sites moustériens de France sont ensuite passés en revue. Ils montrent que les industries attribuées au Paléolith…
A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus)
The hunting methods of the Neanderthals are rarely evident in detail in the archaeological record. Here, the rare and important discovery of a fragment of broken Levallois point, embedded in the neck-bones of a wild ass, provokes plenty of discussion of the methods of hafting and killing game in the Middle Palaeolithic of Syria
Paléoenvironnements pléistocènes et peuplements paléolithiques dans le bassin de la Somme (nord de la France)
This paper represents a synthetic overview of the main results of the CNRS Programme " Palaeoenvironments and Hominids ". This project focused on the study of interactions between human occupation and environmental modification, between 500 and 10 kyrs BP, based on multidisciplinary and diachronic studies of key sites in the Somme Basin. The main analytic results concern ESR, TL-IRSL and 14C dates, which reinforce the chrono-stratigraphical inter…
Apport de la thermoluminescence sur silex chauffes à la chronologie de site paléolithiques de Normandie
Since twenty years there was an important advance concerning the norman Palaeolithic essentially along the cliffs of the Cotentin peninsula and on the " plateaux " of Upper-Normandy (Saint- André " plateau ", Pays de Caux ..). The chronostratigraphy has been precised and also the technology of the lithic material The human structured space (hearth, accumulation of lithic material, lines of blocks, ditches) is now well known. But it was necessary …
TL dates for the Middle Paleolithic site of Combe-Capelle Bas, France
Reassessment of TL age estimates of burnt flints from the Paleolithic site of Tabun Cave, Israel
The Lower Acheulian site of Ambrona, Soria (Spain)
Chronologie des technofaciès Howieson's Poort et Still Bay (Middle Stone Age, Afrique du Sud)
Les chronologies du Still Bay et de l'Howieson's Poort sont débattues depuis maintenant trois décennies, car bien que ces technofaciès appartiennent au Middle Stone Age sud-africain, ils présentent d'une part des affinités avec ceux du Later Stone Age et d'autre part, sont associés à des artefacts qui refléteraient un comportement moderne. L'objectif de cet article est de dresser un bilan des diverses données chronologiques publiées pour ces tech…
Hayonim Cave
Thermoluminescence dating of heated flint from the Mousterian site of Bérigoule, Murs, Vaucluse, France
L’abri sous-roche du Rozel (France, Manche)
Situé sur la côte ouest du Cotentin (Manche), le site du Rozel a livré un complexe de deux niveaux d’occupations anthropiques. L’abri sousroche conservait les vestiges d’un habitat comportant des structures de combustion, du mobilier lithique et fait exceptionnel dans le Cotentin des restes osseux. L’ensemble s’inscrit dans une formation dunaire sus-jacente à une plage ancienne. Initialement attribué à un Périgordien ancien, le site a fait l’obje…
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