Sonia Harmand
Biographic Data
| ID | 120043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Harmand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Harmand |
| SIGNATURE | HARMAND S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1765-6180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
La coévolution humain-outil
The First Million Years of Technology
During the course of human evolution, lithic technology became a critical element of hominin foraging ecology and a contributor to feedback loops selecting for increasingly sophisticated tool use, cognition, and language. Here we review the first million years of technology, from 3.3 million years ago (Ma) to 2.3 Ma. This time interval includes the two oldest archaeological industries (the Lomekwian and the early Oldowan) known exclusively from A…
Aridity, availability of drinking water and freshwater foods, and hominin and archeological sites during the Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene in the western region of the Turkana Basin (Kenya)
Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya
Linking primatology and archaeology
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (1944-2022)
Raising up African paleoanthropologists
Before the Acheulean
Analyse de sensibilité à des changements morphologiques du complexe de l'épaule
Si la fabrication et l’utilisation d’outils lithiques ont incontestablement joué un rôle déterminant dans l’évolution des hominines, l’impact de tels comportements sur leur morphologie semble moins faire consensus. Toutefois, il semble que l’architecture et les proportions du complexe de l’épaule chez les premiers représentants du genre Homo aient pu avoir été contraintes par ces comportements. Afin de discuter des potentiels avantages adaptatifs…
Searching for hidden activities
Lake-level changes and hominin occupations in the arid Turkana basin during volcanic closure of the Omo River outflows to the Indian Ocean
In the East African Rift, the western margin of Lake Turkana (northern Kenya) exposes Mio-Plio-Pleistocene lake sediments with dated volcanic horizons constraining basin dynamics at the astronomical time scale. Since the late Pliocene, coastal archaeological sites have formed within the lacustrine dynamics. Here, lake levels are reconstructed from 2.4 to 1.7 Ma using sedimentary facies and water/depth-controlled sediment association. The lacustri…
Reply to Domínguez-Rodrigo and Alcalá
International audience
Naiyena Engol 2 (West Turkana, Kenya)
An earlier origin for stone tool making
The discovery of the earliest known stone tools at Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) from West Turkana, Kenya, dated to 3.3 Ma, raises new questions about the mode and tempo of key adaptations in the hominin lineage. The LOM3 tools date to before the earliest known fossils attributed to Homo at 2.8 Ma. They were made and deposited in a more C 3 environment than were the earliest Oldowan tools at 2.6 Ma. Their discovery leads to renewed investigation on the timing…
An interdisciplinary approach to percussive technology – International conference, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, September 18 th ‐ 19 th , 2014
International audience
Pedogenic carbonate stable isotopic evidence for wooded habitat preference of early Pleistocene tool makers in the Turkana Basin
New views on old stones
Variability in Raw Material Selectivity at the Late Pliocene sites of Lokalalei, West Turkana, Kenya
Interpreting pachyderm single carcass sites in the African Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene record
First occurrence of early Homo in the Nachukui Formation (West Turkana, Kenya) at 2.3-2.4Myr
Les sites archéologiques plio-pléistocènes de la formation de Nachukui, Ouest-Turkana, Kenya
La formation de Nachukui, dans l'Ouest-Turkana (Nord Kenya) est riche de nombreux sites archéologiques plio-pléistocènes. Les recherches menées par le West Turkana Archaeological Project permettent, dans une fenêtre chronologique allant de 2,35 Ma à 0,7 Ma, de documenter la diversité des techniques et les capacités cognitives qui les sous-tendent et, plus largement, l'évolution comportementale des hominidés sur plus d'un million et demi d'années,…
Pedogenic carbonate stable isotopic evidence for wooded habitat preference of early Pleistocene tool makers in the Turkana Basin
Searching for hidden activities
Naiyena Engol 2 (West Turkana, Kenya)
Before the Acheulean
Reply to Domínguez-Rodrigo and Alcalá
International audience
Linking primatology and archaeology
Les sites archéologiques plio-pléistocènes de la formation de Nachukui, Ouest-Turkana, Kenya
La formation de Nachukui, dans l'Ouest-Turkana (Nord Kenya) est riche de nombreux sites archéologiques plio-pléistocènes. Les recherches menées par le West Turkana Archaeological Project permettent, dans une fenêtre chronologique allant de 2,35 Ma à 0,7 Ma, de documenter la diversité des techniques et les capacités cognitives qui les sous-tendent et, plus largement, l'évolution comportementale des hominidés sur plus d'un million et demi d'années,…
First occurrence of early Homo in the Nachukui Formation (West Turkana, Kenya) at 2.3-2.4Myr
Interpreting pachyderm single carcass sites in the African Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene record
Variability in Raw Material Selectivity at the Late Pliocene sites of Lokalalei, West Turkana, Kenya
New views on old stones
Pedogenic carbonate stable isotopic evidence for wooded habitat preference of early Pleistocene tool makers in the Turkana Basin
An interdisciplinary approach to percussive technology – International conference, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, September 18 th ‐ 19 th , 2014
International audience
An earlier origin for stone tool making
The discovery of the earliest known stone tools at Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) from West Turkana, Kenya, dated to 3.3 Ma, raises new questions about the mode and tempo of key adaptations in the hominin lineage. The LOM3 tools date to before the earliest known fossils attributed to Homo at 2.8 Ma. They were made and deposited in a more C 3 environment than were the earliest Oldowan tools at 2.6 Ma. Their discovery leads to renewed investigation on the timing…
Naiyena Engol 2 (West Turkana, Kenya)
Lake-level changes and hominin occupations in the arid Turkana basin during volcanic closure of the Omo River outflows to the Indian Ocean
In the East African Rift, the western margin of Lake Turkana (northern Kenya) exposes Mio-Plio-Pleistocene lake sediments with dated volcanic horizons constraining basin dynamics at the astronomical time scale. Since the late Pliocene, coastal archaeological sites have formed within the lacustrine dynamics. Here, lake levels are reconstructed from 2.4 to 1.7 Ma using sedimentary facies and water/depth-controlled sediment association. The lacustri…
Reply to Domínguez-Rodrigo and Alcalá
International audience
Searching for hidden activities
Before the Acheulean
Analyse de sensibilité à des changements morphologiques du complexe de l'épaule
Si la fabrication et l’utilisation d’outils lithiques ont incontestablement joué un rôle déterminant dans l’évolution des hominines, l’impact de tels comportements sur leur morphologie semble moins faire consensus. Toutefois, il semble que l’architecture et les proportions du complexe de l’épaule chez les premiers représentants du genre Homo aient pu avoir été contraintes par ces comportements. Afin de discuter des potentiels avantages adaptatifs…
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (1944-2022)
Raising up African paleoanthropologists
Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya
Linking primatology and archaeology
Aridity, availability of drinking water and freshwater foods, and hominin and archeological sites during the Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene in the western region of the Turkana Basin (Kenya)
La coévolution humain-outil
The First Million Years of Technology
During the course of human evolution, lithic technology became a critical element of hominin foraging ecology and a contributor to feedback loops selecting for increasingly sophisticated tool use, cognition, and language. Here we review the first million years of technology, from 3.3 million years ago (Ma) to 2.3 Ma. This time interval includes the two oldest archaeological industries (the Lomekwian and the early Oldowan) known exclusively from A…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Geology (10 works) · Paleontology (10 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (9 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works) · Biology (7 works) · Geology (7 works)