Edwige Pons-Branchu

Biographic Data

ID	3808774
NAME	Edwige Pons-Branchu
GIVEN NAMES	Edwige
FAMILY NAME	Pons-Branchu
SIGNATURE	PONS-BRANCHU E
AFFILIATIONS	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	14
TOTAL CITATIONS	65
AUTHOR COUNT	14
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	5

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
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
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
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
U/Th and 14 C Crossdating of Parietal Calcite Deposits
Open AccessHelene Valladas, Edwige Pons-Branchu et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2017Cited by: 5References: 37
14 C and U/Th methods were used to date three thin carbonate layers deposited on decorated walls of Nerja Cave (Malaga, southern Spain) in order to constrain the age of the parietal non-figurative marks situated under these carbonate layers. Modern formations were also dated to estimate the detritic contribution for the U/Th method and the dead carbon proportion for 14 C dating. We sampled two locations with ocher painting marks. In one case (mar…
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
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…
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…

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…
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…
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…
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
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
U/Th and 14 C Crossdating of Parietal Calcite Deposits
Open AccessHelene Valladas, Edwige Pons-Branchu et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2017Cited by: 5References: 37
14 C and U/Th methods were used to date three thin carbonate layers deposited on decorated walls of Nerja Cave (Malaga, southern Spain) in order to constrain the age of the parietal non-figurative marks situated under these carbonate layers. Modern formations were also dated to estimate the detritic contribution for the U/Th method and the dead carbon proportion for 14 C dating. We sampled two locations with ocher painting marks. In one case (mar…
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…
New electron spin resonance (ESR) ages from Geißenklösterle Cave
Open AccessMaïlys Richard, Christophe Falguères et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2019Cited by: 3References: 60
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
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
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