Edwige Pons‐branchu

Biographic Data

ID	3585292
NAME	Edwige Pons‐branchu
GIVEN NAMES	Edwige
FAMILY NAME	Pons‐branchu
SIGNATURE	BRANCHU E P
AFFILIATIONS	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
ORCID	0000-0002-7941-3144
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	25
TOTAL CITATIONS	121
AUTHOR COUNT	25
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	6

Framing the Middle Stone Age of bed V at Mumba Rock Shelter, Tanzania, using electron spin resonance and uranium series
Open AccessChloé Chane-Kouo, Maïlys Richard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026References: 46
U/Th Dating of Secondary Carbonate Deposits in Underground Galleries of Fourvière Hill (Lyon, France) Reveals a Water Supply System in Operation From the Roman Period to the Middle Ages
Open AccessEdwige Pons‐branchu, Emmanuel Bernot et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2026References: 26
The recent discovery of a water draining structure known as the Antiquaille galleries in Fourvière hill, in the center of Lyon, France (ancient Lugdunum), sheds light on the water drainage system built by the former inhabitants of this area for their water needs. We studied secondary carbonate deposits found in two galleries of this system: a massive flowstone and thin white layers of CaCO 3 found interbedded in a collapsed gallery. The study of …
Dephasing of islet building between leeward and windward reef-rim sides, Bora Bora Island, Society Archipelago, central South Pacific
Open AccessLucien F Montaggioni, Bernard Salvat et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2025Cited by: 1
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis
Open AccessSégolène Vandevelde, Edwige Pons‐branchu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2025References: 42
Investigating Human Activities in Caves Through the Study of Broken Stalagmite Structures
Open AccessJean‐jacques Delannoy, Jules Kemper et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2024References: 11
Chronology of Upper Paleolithic human activities recorded in a stalagmite at Points Cave (Aiguèze, Gard, France)
Open AccessMaïlys Richard, Edwige Pons‐branchu et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2024References: 19
In this article, we propose an approach to reconstruct the timing of human activity at Points Cave, an Upper Paleolithic rock art site located in the middle of the Ardèche River Gorge (Rhône valley, France), based on the dating and characterisation of a stalagmite containing soot. Points Cave (‘Grotte aux Points’ in French), also called the ‘little sister of Chauvet Cave’, is famous for its parietal art including a series of dots made of palm pri…
First cross dating (U/Th-14C) of calcite covering rock paintings in Africa
Open AccessGeoffroy Heimlich, Edwige Pons‐branchu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2022References: 8
Radiocarbon Dating of Urban Secondary Carbonate Deposits
Open AccessEdwige Pons‐branchu, Ingrid Caffy et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2022References: 24
In urban environments, diachronic evolution of water quality can be reconstructed using geochemical analysis of urban secondary carbonate deposits (USCDs), from urban underground structures, similar to speleothems from natural caves. The use of the radiocarbon bomb peak to build their precise chronology was recently tested in two Paris-area urban sites (France). In this study, new samples from contrasted environments in the Paris region were samp…
Historical underground quarrying
Open AccessDaniel Ballesteros, Carole Nehmé et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2022References: 38
Quarries represent ‘landscapes archives’ as they supplied the stone required for historical buildings. Among them, the Caumont ancient quarry stands out in northern France, with its huge dimensions and its historical role, providing building stones at a regional scale since at least the Middle Ages. The present study aims to approach the quarrying methods used over time in Caumont by means of an optimized methodological approach. The designed met…
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Hohlenstein-Stadel cave (Swabian Jura, Germany)
Open AccessM Richard, C Falguères et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020
U-series dating at Nerja cave reveal open system. Questioning the Neanderthal origin of Spanish rock art
Open AccessEdwige Pons‐branchu, Edwige Pons-Branchu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Cited by: 27References: 7
New electron spin resonance (ESR) ages from Geißenklösterle Cave
Open AccessMaïlys Richard, Christophe Falguères et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2019Cited by: 3References: 60
Neanderthal selective hunting of reindeer? The case study of Abri du Maras (south-eastern France)
Open AccessC Daujeard, D Vettese et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2019Cited by: 43References: 138
Reservoir Ages in the Western Tropical North Atlantic from One Coral off Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles)
Open AccessMartine Paterne, Nathalie Feuillet et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2018References: 58
Sea surface reservoir ages (R) are reported from radiocarbon ( 14 C) measurements of the annual growth bands of coral Siderastrea siderea collected on the Atlantic coast off Martinique Island, in the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc. Mean values of R are similar between 1835 and 1845 during pre-anthropogenic times at 385±30 yr and between 1895 and 1905 at 382±20 yr when there was a huge eruption from the Montagne Pelée volcano in 1902–1903. Limited 1…
High precision U/Th dating of the rock paintings at Mt. Huashan, Guangxi, southern China
Open AccessQingfeng Shao, Qing-Feng Shao et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2017
The rock art and the associated natural scenery at 38 sites located in the Zuojiang River valley, in the southwest of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China, were inscribed recently on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The painted panel at the site of Mt. Huashan is probably the largest known rock art panel in the world, consisting of approximately 1900 identifiable figures and occupying an area of approximately 8000 m 2 . To determine a pr…
Datation par les méthodes ESR/U-Th combinées de sites du Pléistocène supérieur
Open AccessMaïlys Richard, Christophe Falguères et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2017
New perspectives for 14C dating of parietal markings using CaCO3 thin layers
Open AccessJosé Luis Sanchidrián, Helene Valladas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Cited by: 16References: 4
Radiocarbon Dating of the Decorated Cosquer Cave (France)
Open AccessHelene Valladas, Anita Quiles et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2017Cited by: 14References: 11
The Grotte Cosquer (southeastern France) is a Paleolithic painted cave only accessible by a deep-water dive. The cave has yielded numerous Paleolithic engravings and drawings, which were produced from wood charcoal. This article presents new radiocarbon dates obtained on samples collected in 2012 directly on 17 parietal representations and at the soil surface, and discusses the 14 C results obtained since the discovery of the cave in 1992. A tota…
The chronology of human and animal presence in the decorated and sepulchral cave of Cussac (France)
Open AccessJacques Jaubert, Dominique Genty et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2016Cited by: 8References: 8
Quaternary geology of the Middle Aterno Valley, 2009 L'Aquila earthquake area (Abruzzi Apennines, Italy)
Open AccessS Pucci, Fabio Villani et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2015
We present a new 1:25,000-scale geological map of the Middle Aterno Valley basin, the epicenter of the 2009 L'Aquila MW 6.1 earthquake. This earthquake highlighted the incomplete understanding of the geology of the area, in particular the Quaternary continental deposits and active tectonics, which caused the Paganica fault system to be ignored by researchers.The map, utilizing airborne LiDAR analysis and traditional field survey approaches, is th…
Les ouvrages hydrauliques souterrains de « Mazeran » et du « Garissou » (Béziers, 34)
Roland Haurillon, Laurent Bruxelles et al.ARTICLERevue archéologique de Narbonnaise2015
In 2009, the excavation of a Roman shaft in the northeast of the town of Béziers (34) resulted in an underground tunnel dug in the Miocene molasses. The whole reception a perched water table and harvested percolation fine droplets contained in the sandstone aquifer. In 2011, two new Roman shafts were excavated a few hundred meters further north. Again, the archaeological work shows a similar pattern of operation. Already observed in the last cent…
U-series and 14 C datings for a newly discovered decorated area in the Palaeolithic cave of La Peña de Candamo (Asturies, Northern Spain)
Open AccessMa Soledad Corchón, D Garate et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2015Cited by: 3References: 2
De vuelta al punto de partida
Open AccessM a Soledad Corchón Rodríguez, D Garate et al.ARTICLEZephyrvs2014
La Peña de Candamo was discovered by the scientific community in 1914, being one of the first known caves in the Cantabrian region, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2008. The only monographic study of its parietal art was led and published by E. Hernández Pacheco in 1919, showing exceptional complexity and graphic density. In 2007, a new research project was launched to update all the information related to the cave’s parietal art fro…
Uranium-series dating of carbonate formations overlying Paleolithic art
Randall White, Helene Valladas et al.ARTICLEBulletin de la Société…2014Cited by: 6
The Uranium-Thorium (U/ Th) series dating method, developed 50 years ago, has proven its usefulness and reliability for the dating of marine (corals) and continental (speleothems) secondary carbonates deposits. Recently, improvements of the analytical techniques (TIMS – Thermo-Ionization Mass Spectrometry, and then MC-ICPMS – Multicollector-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy and laser ablation) allow the dating of very small samples and…
Speleothem evidence of warm episodes in northeast France during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 and implications for permafrost distribution in northern Europe
Open AccessEdwige Pons‐branchu, Edwige Pons-Branchu et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2010
U–Th ages have been obtained by TIMS on the growth periods of a stalagmite from the “Grotte des Puits de Pierre-la-Treiche” (northeastern France), during the middle part of the “Weichselian glaciation” (Marine Isotope Stage 3), between 55.36 ± 0.95 and 53.34 ± 0.49 ka and around 45.85 ± 0.49 ka. These episodes are contemporaneous with abrupt climatic variations recorded in Greenland ice cores (Greenland interstadials 12, 14 and 15) that have been…