David Pleurdeau
Biographic Data
| ID | 633348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Pleurdeau |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Pleurdeau |
| SIGNATURE | PLEURDEAU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9741-6704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 400 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Tang as a Technical Solution: A Morphometric and Techno-Structural View from the Tabelbala MSA Corpus
Elucidating the use of rhinoceros teeth by Neanderthals: Between experiments and the fossil record
The use of faunal remains as tools by Neanderthals has long intrigued researchers. These remains include mammal teeth, which are particularly durable and resistant. Nevertheless, there is a significant gap in taphonomic analysis of dental remains, and archaeological experiments with tooth tools remain scarce. Recent studies suggest that Paleolithic groups may have used rhinoceros teeth as tools. This work seeks to elucidate this question by apply…
The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka
The world at 18,000 BP , published by Gamble and Soffer (The world at 18,000 BP. Vol. 2: low latitude, Unwin Hyman, 1990), represents the first, and so far the only, attempt at characterising and discussing the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on human societies on a global scale. At the time, they highlighted that research and data on the LGM in southern latitudes and the tropics in particular were scant. Since 1990, however, many sites …
Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia
Goda Buticha, Ethiopia
The Scraper Planes from Leopard Cave, Erongo Mountains, Namibia
New technological considerations on some Lupemban museum collections from the Congo Basin
The Middle Stone Age of Atlantic Africa: A critical review
Technological analysis of the Baboungué collections, Central African Republic: New data on the Early Stone Age macro-tools
Le core-axe, un outil tropical à redéfinir: Nouvelles données des collections Middle Stone Age de Nzako, République centrafricaine
Standardization procedure to provide a unified multi-method elemental compositional dataset, application to ferruginous colouring matters from Namibia
Curation of archaeological materials often leads to carrying out multi-analytical methodologies that combine non-invasive and invasive elemental analyses. Such materials are often analysed with different techniques. It results in the production of complementary but apparently non-compatible compositional datasets that cannot be easily compared. In the present paper, we propose to compare results acquired on geological ferruginous colouring matter…
An overview of stranded cetacean scavenging in Atlantic southern Africa since the Earlier Stone Age
Along the southern African coastal plain, human occupation is documented since the end of the Early Pleistocene. The archaeological, palaeoenvironemental and ethnographic records suggest that in these arid to semi-arid landscapes where inland resources are sometimes scarce, coastal zones were attractive to past human populations. Among the intertidal resources, stranded marine mammals are known to have been sporadically available from several mil…
L’assemblage lithique du site Acheuléen de Namib IV (Namib central, Namibie)
Data pretreatment and multivariate analyses for ochre sourcing: Application to Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia)
Using morphometrics to reappraise old collections: The study case of the Congo Basin Middle Stone Age bifacial industry
Despite its strategic location within the continent, Central Africa is rarely integrated into the reconstruction of population dynamics during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Africa, especially in terms of the emergence, diffusion and behavioural patterns of Homo sapiens. However, hundreds of sites have been discovered in Central Africa during the 20th century and attributed to the Lupemban, one of the main MSA technological complexes of the region…
Le Middle Stone Age dans le bassin du Congo. Un regard historiographique
Alors qu’une grande partie du continent africain révèle d’importants vestiges du Middle Stone Age témoignant de l’émergence et de la diffusion d’Homo sapiens sur le continent dès le Pléistocène moyen, les connaissances sur le rôle du bassin du Congo dans les dynamiques de peuplement continentales et régionales restent pauvres. La rare préservation des vestiges osseux et de la stratigraphie sur les sites pléistocènes de plein air est souvent consi…
Archaeological Ochres of the Rock Art Site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia): Looking for Later Stone Age Sociocultural Behaviors
Not just a corridor. Human occupation of the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago
The end of the Pleistocene (~75-15 ka) is a key period for the prehistory of the Nile Valley. The climatic fluctuations documented during this period have led human populations from the Middle and Late Palaeolithic to adapt to a changing Nile. In particular, the global shift to more arid conditions regionally translated into the expansion of the Sahara, the lowering of sea levels and the desiccation of some major eastern African lakes. These clim…
Calcium Oxalate Radiocarbon Dating: Preliminary Tests to Date Rock Art of the Decorated Open-Air Caves, Erongo Mountains, Namibia
The direct dating of rock paintings is not always possible due to the lack of organic carbon compounds in pigments, or because sampling from a heritage site is often restricted. To overcome these limitations, dating laboratories have to develop new approaches. In this study, we consider sampling calcium oxalate crusts covering the painted artworks as a way to indirectly date the rock art. This stratigraphic approach includes isolating and extract…
International workshop on human occupations of the Nile Valley and neighboring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago
International audience
First in situ pXRF analyses of rock paintings in Erongo, Namibia: Results, Current Limits, and Prospects
The first technical sequences in human evolution from East Gona, Afar region, Ethiopia
Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia has yielded the earliest Oldowan stone tools in the world. Artefacts from the East Gona (EG) 10 site date back 2.6 million years. Analysis of the lithic assemblage from EG 10 reveals the earliest-known evidence for refitting and conjoining stone artefacts. This new information supplements data from other Oldowan sites in East Africa, and provides an important insight into the technological capacities and evolut…
Engraved ostrich eggshell from the Middle Stone Age contexts of Goda Buticha, Ethiopia
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa
s The Late Pleistocene is a key period to understand the shift from the Middle ( msa ) to the Late Stone Age ( lsa ) in Africa. More generally, it is also a crucial time for elucidation of changes in the technological behaviours of human populations in Africa after the main Out of Africa event of modern humans ca. 60-50 thousand years ago. However, the archaeological record for this period is relatively poor, particularly for the Horn of Africa. …
Preliminary study of the rodent assemblages of Goda Buticha: New insights on Late Quaternary environmental and cultural changes in southeastern Ethiopia
Human Technical Behavior in the African Middle Stone Age: The Lithic Assemblage of Porc-Epic Cave (Dire Dawa, Ethiopia)
Cultural change or continuity in the late MSA/Early LSA of southeastern Ethiopia? The site of Goda Buticha, Dire Dawa area
Multiple origins of Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde (NW Georgia) obsidians and human mobility in Transcaucasia during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
The Early Oldowan Stone-Tool Assemblage from Fejej FJ-1A, Ethiopia
Located in the Omo-Turkana basin at the northern limit of the Koobi Fora sedimentary Formation, the Fejej region has recently proven to be a rich study area for understanding early hominin behaviour and paleoenvironmental conditions. Among the rich fossiliferous and stone artefact localities discovered so far at Fejej, the FJ-1a archeological site has yielded a faunal and lithic assemblage in primary context. The archeological level is situated w…
New chronology for the Middle Palaeolithic of the southern Caucasus suggests early demise of Neanderthals in this region
Non-utilitarian lithic objects from the European Paleolithic
We present here previously unpublished non-utilitarian Paleolithic stone objects, within the contextual framework of similar objects from European sites. The occurrence of non-utilitarian lithic objects, often modified, in Middle Stone Age or Upper Paleolithic sites is now widely accepted as evidence of symbolic behavior associated with the appearance of Homo sapiens. However the occurrence of non-utilitarian and unusual objects in far earlier si…
Not just a corridor. Human occupation of the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago
The end of the Pleistocene (~75-15 ka) is a key period for the prehistory of the Nile Valley. The climatic fluctuations documented during this period have led human populations from the Middle and Late Palaeolithic to adapt to a changing Nile. In particular, the global shift to more arid conditions regionally translated into the expansion of the Sahara, the lowering of sea levels and the desiccation of some major eastern African lakes. These clim…
First in situ pXRF analyses of rock paintings in Erongo, Namibia: Results, Current Limits, and Prospects
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa
s The Late Pleistocene is a key period to understand the shift from the Middle ( msa ) to the Late Stone Age ( lsa ) in Africa. More generally, it is also a crucial time for elucidation of changes in the technological behaviours of human populations in Africa after the main Out of Africa event of modern humans ca. 60-50 thousand years ago. However, the archaeological record for this period is relatively poor, particularly for the Horn of Africa. …
Survey and explorations of caves in southeastern Ethiopia: Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age archaeology and Holocene rock art
Data pretreatment and multivariate analyses for ochre sourcing: Application to Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia)
Human remains from a new Upper Pleistocene sequence in Bondi Cave (Western Georgia)
Using morphometrics to reappraise old collections: The study case of the Congo Basin Middle Stone Age bifacial industry
Despite its strategic location within the continent, Central Africa is rarely integrated into the reconstruction of population dynamics during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Africa, especially in terms of the emergence, diffusion and behavioural patterns of Homo sapiens. However, hundreds of sites have been discovered in Central Africa during the 20th century and attributed to the Lupemban, one of the main MSA technological complexes of the region…
Le Middle Stone Age dans le bassin du Congo. Un regard historiographique
Alors qu’une grande partie du continent africain révèle d’importants vestiges du Middle Stone Age témoignant de l’émergence et de la diffusion d’Homo sapiens sur le continent dès le Pléistocène moyen, les connaissances sur le rôle du bassin du Congo dans les dynamiques de peuplement continentales et régionales restent pauvres. La rare préservation des vestiges osseux et de la stratigraphie sur les sites pléistocènes de plein air est souvent consi…
Engraved ostrich eggshell from the Middle Stone Age contexts of Goda Buticha, Ethiopia
Preliminary study of the rodent assemblages of Goda Buticha: New insights on Late Quaternary environmental and cultural changes in southeastern Ethiopia
Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic in Bondi Cave, Republic of Georgia
We present a detailed zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of Bondi Cave, western Georgia, containing Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic levels. The faunal assemblages are dominated by Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica) and European bison (Bison cf. bonasus). High proportions of specimens bearing cut marks and percussion marks indicate that human activity was the main depositional agent. Carcass transport was selective according to the anima…
Archaeological Ochres of the Rock Art Site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia): Looking for Later Stone Age Sociocultural Behaviors
The first technical sequences in human evolution from East Gona, Afar region, Ethiopia
Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia has yielded the earliest Oldowan stone tools in the world. Artefacts from the East Gona (EG) 10 site date back 2.6 million years. Analysis of the lithic assemblage from EG 10 reveals the earliest-known evidence for refitting and conjoining stone artefacts. This new information supplements data from other Oldowan sites in East Africa, and provides an important insight into the technological capacities and evolut…
Preliminary results from the new excavations of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic levels at Ortvale Klde-north chamber (South Caucasus Georgia)
The Upper Palaeolithic Lithic Industry of Nazlet Khater 4 (Egypt): Implications for the Stone Age/Palaeolithic of Northeastern Africa
Technological analysis of the Baboungué collections, Central African Republic: New data on the Early Stone Age macro-tools
Calcium Oxalate Radiocarbon Dating: Preliminary Tests to Date Rock Art of the Decorated Open-Air Caves, Erongo Mountains, Namibia
The direct dating of rock paintings is not always possible due to the lack of organic carbon compounds in pigments, or because sampling from a heritage site is often restricted. To overcome these limitations, dating laboratories have to develop new approaches. In this study, we consider sampling calcium oxalate crusts covering the painted artworks as a way to indirectly date the rock art. This stratigraphic approach includes isolating and extract…
The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka
The world at 18,000 BP , published by Gamble and Soffer (The world at 18,000 BP. Vol. 2: low latitude, Unwin Hyman, 1990), represents the first, and so far the only, attempt at characterising and discussing the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on human societies on a global scale. At the time, they highlighted that research and data on the LGM in southern latitudes and the tropics in particular were scant. Since 1990, however, many sites …
Le core-axe, un outil tropical à redéfinir: Nouvelles données des collections Middle Stone Age de Nzako, République centrafricaine
Le Middle Stone Age de la grotte du Porc-Épic (Dire Dawa, Éthiopie): Gestion des matières premières et comportements techniques
Gestion des matières premières et comportements techniques dans le Middle Stone Age africain: Les assemblages lithiques de la grotte du Porc-Épic (Dire Dawa, Éthiopie)
This study examines the lithic assemblage from a cave site, Porc-Epic, located in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. The assemblage is representative of the Middle Stone Age and documents an increased sophistication in lithic production, with greater technological variability shown in the production of blades, flakes, bladelets, points and so on. David Pleurdeau examines the assemblage in detail and argues that changes in the relationship between humans and th…
The lithic assemblage of the 1975-1976 excavation of the Porc-Epic Cave, Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia. Implications for the East African Middle Stone Age
I provide a qualitative study of the unpublished portions of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic assemblage from the Porc-Epic cave site in Ethiopia, presently conserved at the National Museum of Ethiopia (NME), in Addis Ababa.Previous investigation of all the lithic material collected during the 1933 excavations resulted in an in-depth technological study, revealing its important technical variability, and integrated this material into a regional …
Human Technical Behavior in the African Middle Stone Age: The Lithic Assemblage of Porc-Epic Cave (Dire Dawa, Ethiopia)
Les assemblages lithiques du Paléolithique moyen de Géorgie
The Upper Palaeolithic Lithic Industry of Nazlet Khater 4 (Egypt): Implications for the Stone Age/Palaeolithic of Northeastern Africa
The Early Oldowan Stone-Tool Assemblage from Fejej FJ-1A, Ethiopia
Located in the Omo-Turkana basin at the northern limit of the Koobi Fora sedimentary Formation, the Fejej region has recently proven to be a rich study area for understanding early hominin behaviour and paleoenvironmental conditions. Among the rich fossiliferous and stone artefact localities discovered so far at Fejej, the FJ-1a archeological site has yielded a faunal and lithic assemblage in primary context. The archeological level is situated w…
Multiple origins of Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde (NW Georgia) obsidians and human mobility in Transcaucasia during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
Preliminary results from the new excavations of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic levels at Ortvale Klde-north chamber (South Caucasus Georgia)
Non-utilitarian lithic objects from the European Paleolithic
We present here previously unpublished non-utilitarian Paleolithic stone objects, within the contextual framework of similar objects from European sites. The occurrence of non-utilitarian lithic objects, often modified, in Middle Stone Age or Upper Paleolithic sites is now widely accepted as evidence of symbolic behavior associated with the appearance of Homo sapiens. However the occurrence of non-utilitarian and unusual objects in far earlier si…
Human remains from a new Upper Pleistocene sequence in Bondi Cave (Western Georgia)
New chronology for the Middle Palaeolithic of the southern Caucasus suggests early demise of Neanderthals in this region
Survey and explorations of caves in southeastern Ethiopia: Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age archaeology and Holocene rock art
Changing environments and movements through transitions: Paleoanthropological and Prehistorical Research in Ethiopia
Cultural change or continuity in the late MSA/Early LSA of southeastern Ethiopia? The site of Goda Buticha, Dire Dawa area
Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic in Bondi Cave, Republic of Georgia
We present a detailed zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of Bondi Cave, western Georgia, containing Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic levels. The faunal assemblages are dominated by Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica) and European bison (Bison cf. bonasus). High proportions of specimens bearing cut marks and percussion marks indicate that human activity was the main depositional agent. Carcass transport was selective according to the anima…
Engraved ostrich eggshell from the Middle Stone Age contexts of Goda Buticha, Ethiopia
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa
s The Late Pleistocene is a key period to understand the shift from the Middle ( msa ) to the Late Stone Age ( lsa ) in Africa. More generally, it is also a crucial time for elucidation of changes in the technological behaviours of human populations in Africa after the main Out of Africa event of modern humans ca. 60-50 thousand years ago. However, the archaeological record for this period is relatively poor, particularly for the Horn of Africa. …
Preliminary study of the rodent assemblages of Goda Buticha: New insights on Late Quaternary environmental and cultural changes in southeastern Ethiopia
The first technical sequences in human evolution from East Gona, Afar region, Ethiopia
Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia has yielded the earliest Oldowan stone tools in the world. Artefacts from the East Gona (EG) 10 site date back 2.6 million years. Analysis of the lithic assemblage from EG 10 reveals the earliest-known evidence for refitting and conjoining stone artefacts. This new information supplements data from other Oldowan sites in East Africa, and provides an important insight into the technological capacities and evolut…
International workshop on human occupations of the Nile Valley and neighboring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago
International audience
First in situ pXRF analyses of rock paintings in Erongo, Namibia: Results, Current Limits, and Prospects
Using morphometrics to reappraise old collections: The study case of the Congo Basin Middle Stone Age bifacial industry
Despite its strategic location within the continent, Central Africa is rarely integrated into the reconstruction of population dynamics during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Africa, especially in terms of the emergence, diffusion and behavioural patterns of Homo sapiens. However, hundreds of sites have been discovered in Central Africa during the 20th century and attributed to the Lupemban, one of the main MSA technological complexes of the region…
Le Middle Stone Age dans le bassin du Congo. Un regard historiographique
Alors qu’une grande partie du continent africain révèle d’importants vestiges du Middle Stone Age témoignant de l’émergence et de la diffusion d’Homo sapiens sur le continent dès le Pléistocène moyen, les connaissances sur le rôle du bassin du Congo dans les dynamiques de peuplement continentales et régionales restent pauvres. La rare préservation des vestiges osseux et de la stratigraphie sur les sites pléistocènes de plein air est souvent consi…
Archaeological Ochres of the Rock Art Site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia): Looking for Later Stone Age Sociocultural Behaviors
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (40 works) · Archaeology (34 works) · Geography (34 works) · Geology (25 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 works) · Cave (21 works) · Paleontology (21 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (15 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (13 works) · Pleistocene (13 works)