Sylvain Ozainne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvain Ozainne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvain |
| FAMILY NAME | Ozainne |
| SIGNATURE | OZAINNE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5720-5187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
New Data on the Beginning of the Neolithic in the Upper Rhône Valley
Almost 40 years after excavations at Place de la Planta, the project to build an underground warehouse for the cantonal archives in front of the former cantonal arsenal in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) provided an opportunity to gather new information about the Neolithic period in the upper Rhône valley. This article focuses on the first two stratigraphic complexes of the site, both of which yield important new insights into the earliest Neolithic s…
Nouvelles données sur le début du Néolithique dans la Haute vallée du Rhône
Près de quarante ans après les fouilles de la Place de la Planta, le projet de construction d’un entrepôt souterrain destiné aux archives cantonales devant la façade de l’ancien arsenal cantonal de Sion (Valais, Suisse) a offert l’opportunité de recueillir de nouvelles informations relatives au Néolithique dans la Haute vallée du Rhône. Cet article se concentre sur les deux premiers ensembles stratigraphiques du site, permettant une importante re…
New evidence for prehistoric ploughing in Europe
For the past four decades, the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’ model, i.e., the exploitation of animal resources that do not involve killing the animal, such as the production of milk and wool and the use of animals for physical labour has been the object of heated discussion between Neolithic scholars. According to this model, the use of animal strength arrived relatively late in Europe—during the socio-economic changes of the Late Neolithic in …
Agricultural diversification in West Africa
While narratives of the spread of agriculture are central to interpretation of African history, hard evidence of past crops and cultivation practices are still few. This research aims at filling this gap and better understanding the evolution of agriculture and foodways in West Africa. It reports evidence from systematic flotation samples taken at the settlement mounds of Sadia (Mali), dating from 4 phases (phase 0=before first-third century AD; …
West and Central African Neolithic
A Phoenician glass eye bead from 7th–5th c. cal BCE Nin-Bèrè 3, Mali
Diversification, Intensification and Specialization
Towards a Better Understanding of Sub-Saharan Settlement Mounds before AD 1400
In the Niger Bend, many studies have shown the existence of settlement mounds which mainly developed between the 1 st millennium BC and the 15 th century AD. While knowledge about tell-type sites in sub-Saharan Africa has advanced in recent years, many aspects of this topic remain poorly understood. Considering the vast geographic area and time span, there is very little accurate chronostratigraphic information available. This relative lack of lo…
West and Central African Neolithic
Early social complexity in the Dogon Country (Mali) as evidenced by a new chronology of funerary practices
A question of timing
Developing a Chronology Integrating Archaeological and Environmental Data from Different Contexts
At Ounjougou, a site complex situated in the Yamé River valley on the Bandiagara Plateau (Dogon country, Mali), multidisciplinary research has revealed a rich archaeological and paleoenvironmental sequence used to reconstruct the history of human-environment interactions, especially during the Late Holocene (3500–300 cal BC). Geomorphological, archaeological, and archaeobotanical data coming from different sites and contexts were combined in orde…
The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC
New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses. In A…
Ounjougou (Mali)
The area of Ounjougou consists of a series of gullies cut through Upper Pleistocene and Holocene formations on the Dogon Plateau in the Sahel at the south edge of the Sahara Desert. Here the authors have chronicled a stratified sequence of human occupation from the tenth to the second millennium BC, recording natural and anthropogenic strata containing artefacts and micro- and macro- palaeoecological remains, mostly in an excellent state of prese…
The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC
New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses. In A…
Ounjougou (Mali)
The area of Ounjougou consists of a series of gullies cut through Upper Pleistocene and Holocene formations on the Dogon Plateau in the Sahel at the south edge of the Sahara Desert. Here the authors have chronicled a stratified sequence of human occupation from the tenth to the second millennium BC, recording natural and anthropogenic strata containing artefacts and micro- and macro- palaeoecological remains, mostly in an excellent state of prese…
Diversification, Intensification and Specialization
Towards a Better Understanding of Sub-Saharan Settlement Mounds before AD 1400
In the Niger Bend, many studies have shown the existence of settlement mounds which mainly developed between the 1 st millennium BC and the 15 th century AD. While knowledge about tell-type sites in sub-Saharan Africa has advanced in recent years, many aspects of this topic remain poorly understood. Considering the vast geographic area and time span, there is very little accurate chronostratigraphic information available. This relative lack of lo…
Agricultural diversification in West Africa
While narratives of the spread of agriculture are central to interpretation of African history, hard evidence of past crops and cultivation practices are still few. This research aims at filling this gap and better understanding the evolution of agriculture and foodways in West Africa. It reports evidence from systematic flotation samples taken at the settlement mounds of Sadia (Mali), dating from 4 phases (phase 0=before first-third century AD; …
A question of timing
A Phoenician glass eye bead from 7th–5th c. cal BCE Nin-Bèrè 3, Mali
Developing a Chronology Integrating Archaeological and Environmental Data from Different Contexts
At Ounjougou, a site complex situated in the Yamé River valley on the Bandiagara Plateau (Dogon country, Mali), multidisciplinary research has revealed a rich archaeological and paleoenvironmental sequence used to reconstruct the history of human-environment interactions, especially during the Late Holocene (3500–300 cal BC). Geomorphological, archaeological, and archaeobotanical data coming from different sites and contexts were combined in orde…
Ounjougou (Mali)
The area of Ounjougou consists of a series of gullies cut through Upper Pleistocene and Holocene formations on the Dogon Plateau in the Sahel at the south edge of the Sahara Desert. Here the authors have chronicled a stratified sequence of human occupation from the tenth to the second millennium BC, recording natural and anthropogenic strata containing artefacts and micro- and macro- palaeoecological remains, mostly in an excellent state of prese…
Developing a Chronology Integrating Archaeological and Environmental Data from Different Contexts
At Ounjougou, a site complex situated in the Yamé River valley on the Bandiagara Plateau (Dogon country, Mali), multidisciplinary research has revealed a rich archaeological and paleoenvironmental sequence used to reconstruct the history of human-environment interactions, especially during the Late Holocene (3500–300 cal BC). Geomorphological, archaeological, and archaeobotanical data coming from different sites and contexts were combined in orde…
The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC
New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses. In A…
West and Central African Neolithic
Early social complexity in the Dogon Country (Mali) as evidenced by a new chronology of funerary practices
A question of timing
Towards a Better Understanding of Sub-Saharan Settlement Mounds before AD 1400
In the Niger Bend, many studies have shown the existence of settlement mounds which mainly developed between the 1 st millennium BC and the 15 th century AD. While knowledge about tell-type sites in sub-Saharan Africa has advanced in recent years, many aspects of this topic remain poorly understood. Considering the vast geographic area and time span, there is very little accurate chronostratigraphic information available. This relative lack of lo…
A Phoenician glass eye bead from 7th–5th c. cal BCE Nin-Bèrè 3, Mali
Diversification, Intensification and Specialization
West and Central African Neolithic
Agricultural diversification in West Africa
While narratives of the spread of agriculture are central to interpretation of African history, hard evidence of past crops and cultivation practices are still few. This research aims at filling this gap and better understanding the evolution of agriculture and foodways in West Africa. It reports evidence from systematic flotation samples taken at the settlement mounds of Sadia (Mali), dating from 4 phases (phase 0=before first-third century AD; …
New evidence for prehistoric ploughing in Europe
For the past four decades, the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’ model, i.e., the exploitation of animal resources that do not involve killing the animal, such as the production of milk and wool and the use of animals for physical labour has been the object of heated discussion between Neolithic scholars. According to this model, the use of animal strength arrived relatively late in Europe—during the socio-economic changes of the Late Neolithic in …
New Data on the Beginning of the Neolithic in the Upper Rhône Valley
Almost 40 years after excavations at Place de la Planta, the project to build an underground warehouse for the cantonal archives in front of the former cantonal arsenal in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) provided an opportunity to gather new information about the Neolithic period in the upper Rhône valley. This article focuses on the first two stratigraphic complexes of the site, both of which yield important new insights into the earliest Neolithic s…
Nouvelles données sur le début du Néolithique dans la Haute vallée du Rhône
Près de quarante ans après les fouilles de la Place de la Planta, le projet de construction d’un entrepôt souterrain destiné aux archives cantonales devant la façade de l’ancien arsenal cantonal de Sion (Valais, Suisse) a offert l’opportunité de recueillir de nouvelles informations relatives au Néolithique dans la Haute vallée du Rhône. Cet article se concentre sur les deux premiers ensembles stratigraphiques du site, permettant une importante re…
Geography (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (4 works) · Prehistory (4 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (3 works)