Antoine Zazzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 76005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antoine Zazzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antoine |
| FAMILY NAME | Zazzo |
| SIGNATURE | ZAZZO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7608-2207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 362 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Ritual horse provisioning reveals the spatial scale of sustained cooperation in late Bronze age monument building in Mongolia
Combined Lipidomic and Proteomic Analyses on Ceramics and Human Remains from Sialk, a Protohistoric Site of the Iranian Plateau
Le site de Tepe Sialk, situé dans la plaine de Kashan (Iran) et dont les premières fouilles ont eu lieu dans les années 1930, présente une occupation allant du Néolithique récent (6000 BC) à l’âge du Fer final (500 BC). Dans cet article, nous avons utilisé de nouvelles méthodes d’analyse biomoléculaires sur des résidus lipidiques préservés dans les céramiques archéologiques et sur des protéines préservées dans le tartre dentaire humain afin de do…
The Elephant in the Room
During the Upper Paleolithic of southwestern France, the working of mammoth ivory is widely documented, but the use of mammoth bone has not been identified except for one possible Gravettian case. Here we report six worked objects made of mammoth bone from five sites in southwestern France, which have been identified taxonomically by proteomics using ZooMS. They were radiocarbon dated and their chronological distribution spans the Upper Paleolith…
Unveiling the function of long-spouted ceramics at Sialk, Iran
The site of Sialk, with its long settlement history and large necropolises offers one of the most important relative chronology of Iran. During the Iron Age, particular pottery vessels with a long spout and elaborate decorations appeared at the site. While these ceramics had been the driven factor behind excavations in the area of Sialk, their function remains the object of numerous hypotheses. Here their function was investigated through organic…
An integrative study of new environmental and cultural data from the Hoabinhian of Laang Spean Cave (Cambodia) including modern human remains
Although the Hoabinhian culture is renowned for its unifacial pebble tools and its discovery dates back more than a century, only a handful of sites provide complete information on this period. The site of Laang Spean, in Cambodia, has recently been described as a burial cave for the Neolithic period, but it was previously known as an emblematic Hoabinhian site for Cambodia. More comprehensive studies indicate that it offers a wide window onto th…
Dietary reconstruction of domestic mammals in the Keriya Valley (Xinjiang, China) during the Bronze and Iron Ages using stable isotope analysis of animal hair
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Le site épipaléolithique de Pakhtomena (Armenokhori)
1. La mission 2019-2022 dans son contexte historique : continuités, renouvellements, perspectives \n1.1.Bref historique de la Mission Néolithisation de 2009 à 2021 \n1.2. À la recherche de l’Épipaléolithique et du PPNA ancien de Chypre \n2. Résultats de la campagne de fouille à Pakhtomena (mai 2022) \n2.1. Logistique, stratégie et méthodes \n2.2. Le secteur TD2: Stratigraphie et pédogénèse; Le dispositif de pierres St 200‐204 \n2.3. Le secteur ce…
Lipid preservation in ceramics and bones from the Iranian Plateau
Historical dynamics of the human-environment interactions in Cyprus during the 12th-10th millennia cal. BP
Testing the Use of Xad Resin to Remove Synthetic Contamination From Archaeological Bone Prior to Radiocarbon Dating
Museum collections are extremely valuable sources of material for ongoing research, although the conservation history of some objects is not always recorded, which can be problematic for chemical analyses. While most contamination is removed using the acid-base-acid treatment, this may not be the case for cross-linked contamination. The XAD resin protocol was implemented at the radiocarbon ( 14 C) laboratory in the Muséum national d’Histoire natu…
An Early Inuit Workshop at aQassi, a Men's House, Nuulliit, Northwest Greenland
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Retour à Combe-Grèze (La Cresse, Aveyron)
Situé dans une doline sur le Causse Noir, à une dizaine de kilomètres au nord-est de Millau, le petit abri de Combe-Grèze a d’abord été fouillé dans la seconde moitié du xxe siècle, puis a fait l’objet d’un récent retour sur le terrain par les auteurs du présent article. Ce site, occupé à différents moments de l’Holocène, a été largement mobilisé dans les scénarios de néolithisation des arrière-pays. Cependant, les travaux de terrain conduits dep…
Back to Combe-Grèze (La Cresse, Aveyron)
The small shelter of Combe-Grèze, located in a dolina of the Causse Noir plateau about ten kilometres northeast of Millau in Southwestern France, was first excavated in the second half of the 20th century, and more recently has been subject to new investigations by the authors of this contribution. The site was repeatedly occupied during the Holocene and has been widely referred to in neolithisation scenarios regarding the Mediterranean hinterlan…
Making clothes, dressing the deceased
Kazakh Variations for Herders and Animals in the Mongolian Altai
Kazakh herders of the Mongolian Altai practice a form of nomadism characterised by high altitudinal amplitude and more frequent movements than in other regions of Mongolia. This paper proposes a local scale study of nomadic practices using an original multidisciplinary methodological approach combining anthropological surveys and several years' GPS data tracking of five herder families' herds. The dialogue between geo-localised and qualitative da…
Sungir Revisited
Chronological and stratigraphic frameworks are of the utmost importance for Upper Paleolithic archaeology, physical anthropology, and ecology. Wide ranging radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates were previously obtained for the Sungir burial complex in the central part of European Russia, which is well-known as the richest funeral Paleolithic assemblage in the world yet recorded. The major problem was the contamination caused by consolidants used during the r…
Identification génétique et datation radiocarbone de restes osseux de cerf, de renne et de bison des steppes d’une sépulture moustérienne (La Ferrassie 8, Dordogne, France)
Afin d’obtenir de nouvelles informations sur le contexte d’enfouissement de l’enfant néandertalien nommé La Ferrassie 8, nous avons analysé des restes indéterminés du locus où le squelette humain partiel a été découvert. Notre étude porte sur 20 esquilles osseuses où la présence d’ADN de 10 espèces, dont Néandertal, a été recherchée au moyen de tests spécifiques d’amplification génique (PCR en temps réel) de fragments du génome mitochondrial. Nou…
The isotope record (δ13C, δ18O) of vertical mobility in incremental tissues (tooth enamel, hair) of modern livestock
L'immuable intéraction des habitants du site de Huaca Amarilla avec leurs jeunes défunts (Désert de Sechura, côté nord du Pérou)
Le site de Huaca Amarilla situé dans le désert de Sechura au nord du Pérou a livré un ensemble funéraire singulier composé de 117 immatures, dont l’âge a été estimé entre 5,5 mois in utero et 7 ans, et un seul adulte. Ils ont été inhumés avec grand soin et regroupés autour d’une petite structure rectangulaire localisée au sud d’une zone domestique comprenant des patios et des espaces destinés au stockage des denrées alimentaires. La proximité des…
A Macaw (Ara sp.) in a Preceramic Site from the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia, Dated to the Ninth Millennium cal BP
The attribution of osteological remains of a bird discovered in Preceramic deposits at Nemocón IV rockshelter (Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia) to Ara sp. (macaws) is confirmed through osteological and morphometrical analyses. Thirteen bones were recovered from two adjacent, arbitrary excavation levels; and are considered the remains of a single individual because of the rarity of the taxon, their similar size and taphonomic alteration, and the presen…
Season of death of domestic horses deposited in a ritual complex from Bronze Age Mongolia
Isotopic evidence for changing mobility and landscape use patterns between the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in western Ireland
Date of death of domestic caprines assessed by oxygen isotopic analysis of developing molars
Marking the sacral landscape of a north Arabian oasis
Prehistoric stone structures are prominent and well-studied in the Levantine desert margins. In northern Arabia, however, such structures have received less attention. This article presents the results of investigations of a 35m-long stone platform, first constructed in the mid sixth millennium BC, overlooking the oasis of Dûmat al-Jandal in northern Saudi Arabia. Excavation of the platform has yielded bioarchaeological and cultural remains, alon…
Characterization of painting pigments and ochres associated with the Hoabinhian archaeological context at the rock-shelter site of Doi Pha Kan (Thailand)
Radiocarbon Dating of Calcined Bones
Over the past decade, radiocarbon dating of the carbonate contained in the mineral fraction of calcined bones has emerged as a viable alternative to dating skeletal remains in situations where collagen is no longer present. However, anomalously low δ 13 C values have been reported for calcined bones, suggesting that the mineral fraction of bone is altered. Therefore, exchange with other sources of carbon during heating cannot be excluded. Here, w…
Radiocarbon Dating of Calcined Bones
Radiocarbon dating of the carbonate remaining in calcined bones is widely regarded as a viable alternative to date skeletal remains in situations where collagen is no longer present. However, anomalously low δ 13 C values measured in calcined bones prompted questions about the origin of the carbon used for dating. The goal of this study was to quantify the magnitude of carbon isotope exchange between bone carbonate and environmental CO 2 for bone…
Oxygen and strontium isotopes as provenance indicators of fish at archaeological sites
Can we Use Calcined Bones for 14 C Dating the Paleolithic
This work aims to test the reliability of calcined bones for radiocarbon dating of the Paleolithic. Fifty-five calcined bone samples coming from Aurignacian and Gravettian layers at Abri Pataud (Dordogne, France) were selected based on their macroscopic features. For each sample, the heating state was estimated on the basis of bone crystallinity (splitting factor [SF] using FTIR) and δ 13 C value. Twenty-seven bone samples (3 unburnt and 24 calci…
Rapid Quantification of Bone Collagen Content by ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy
Expensive and time-consuming preparation procedures for radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses can be conducted on archaeological bone samples even if no collagen is preserved. Such unsuccessful preparation can lead to the partial destruction of valuable archaeological material. Establishing a rapid prescreening method for evaluating the amount of bone collagen while minimizing the impact of sampling constitutes a challenge for the preservation …
The reconstruction of mammal individual history
Impact of heating conditions on the carbon and oxygen isotope composition of calcined bone
Collagen Extraction and Stable Isotope Analysis of Small Vertebrate Bones
Bone remains of small vertebrate fossils provide valuable information for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions. However, direct radiocarbon dating of small vertebrates remains challenging as the extraction of sufficient good quality collagen is required. The efficiency of eight collagen extraction protocols was tested on seven samples, representative of different ages and burial environments, including both macro and small vertebr…
Discovery of an outstanding Hoabinhian site from the Late Pleistocene at Doi Pha Kan (Lampang province, northern Thailand)
Variability in the marine radiocarbon reservoir effect in Muscat (Sultanate of Oman) during the 4th millennium BC
Second Radiocarbon Intercomparison Program for the Chauvetpont d'Arc Cave, Ardèche, France
The Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave is one of the most important sites for the study of the earliest manifestations and development of prehistoric art at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. Different dating techniques have been performed thus far (AMS 14 C, U/Th TIMS, 36 Cl dating) to model the chronological framework of this decorated cave. The cave yielded several large charcoal fragments, which enabled the opportunity for obtaining multiple dates;…
Marking the sacral landscape of a north Arabian oasis
Prehistoric stone structures are prominent and well-studied in the Levantine desert margins. In northern Arabia, however, such structures have received less attention. This article presents the results of investigations of a 35m-long stone platform, first constructed in the mid sixth millennium BC, overlooking the oasis of Dûmat al-Jandal in northern Saudi Arabia. Excavation of the platform has yielded bioarchaeological and cultural remains, alon…
Direct 14 C Dating of Early and Mid-Holocene Saharan Pottery
The aim of this study is to directly radiocarbon date pottery from prehistoric rock-art shelters in the Tassili n'Ajjer (central Sahara). We used a combined geochemical and microscopic approach to determine plant material in the pottery prior to direct 14 C dating. The ages obtained range from 5270 ± 35 BP (6276–5948 cal BP) to 8160 ± 45 BP (9190–9015 cal BP), and correlate with the chronology derived from pottery typology. Our results document t…
A first absolute chronology for Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Myanmar
Customs, rites, and sacrifices relating to a mortuary complex in Late Bronze Age Mongolia (Tsatsyn Ereg, Arkhangai)
Lepetz, Sébastien, Zazzo, Antoine, Bernard, Vincent, Larminat, Solenn de, Magail, Jérôme, Gantulga, Jamyian-Ombo (2019): Customs, rites, and sacrifices relating to a mortuary complex in Late Bronze Age Mongolia (Tsatsyn Ereg, Arkhangai). Anthropozoologica 54 (15): 151-177, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2019v54a15
High-precision dating of ceremonial activity around a large ritual complex in Late Bronze Age Mongolia
A Revised Radiocarbon Chronology of the Aceramic Shell Midden of Ra’s Al-Hamra 6 (Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)
Ra’s al-Hamra 6 (RH-6) is one of the earliest stratified archaeological sites along the eastern littoral of the Arabian Peninsula. This shell midden was radiocarbon dated to the 6th–5th millennium cal BC, but the majority of the dates were obtained before the advent of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C dating and suffer from large uncertainties. In addition, most of these dates were obtained on marine and mangrove shells and required corre…
Les tumulus à couloir et enclos de la Tassili du Fadnoun, Tassili Azger (Algérie)
Among the countless funerary monuments present in the Sahara, the corridor and enclosure tumulus (CET) display particularly original architectural features. Their chronology is now well established for the Nigerien Sahara, but remains poorly known for the Tassili Azger in south-eastern Algeria, despite the abundance of monuments identified. This article presents the first results of direct AMS 14 C dating of the mineral fraction (bioapatite) of h…
Diet and mobility in a late neolithic population of coastal oman inferred from radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis
In Oman, the presence of highly productive marine environments, coupled with relatively limited land resources, have led to intense exploitation of coastal resources, but the question of the seasonality of occupation of coastal sites remains open. Our aim is to evaluate the contribution of marine resources to the diet of the Neolithic population of Ra's al‐Hamra 5 (RH‐5) to shed new light on its mobility, using stable isotopes and radiocarbon ( 1…
New insights on the first Neolithic societies in the Horn of Africa
The site of Wakrita is a small Neolithic establishment located on a wadi in the tectonic depression of Gobaad in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. The 2005 excavations yielded abundant ceramics that enabled us to define one Neolithic cultural facies of this region, which was also identified at the nearby site of Asa Koma. The faunal remains confirm the importance of fishing in Neolithic settlements close to Lake Abbé, but also the importance of bov…
Characterization of painting pigments and ochres associated with the Hoabinhian archaeological context at the rock-shelter site of Doi Pha Kan (Thailand)
Animal fibre use in the Keriya valley (Xinjiang, China) during the Bronze and Iron Ages
Can we identify the Mexican hairless dog in the archaeological record? Morphological and genetic insights from Tizayuca, Basin of Mexico
First preliminary evidence for basketry and nut consumption in the Capsian culture (ca. 10,000–7500BP)
Exponentially decreasing tooth growth rate in horse teeth
A range of archaeological and palaeoclimatic studies use isotopic analyses of ungulate hypsodont tooth enamel. Such studies commonly assume a constant growth rate, though this has not been fully tested. Here, we use stable isotope analyses of sequential enamel samples to study horse tooth growth. We fit the data using models corresponding to constant and exponentially decreasing rates of growth, and compare the results to metrical data showing th…
Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad
A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa
High-resolution δ13C intratooth profiles in bovine enamel
The reconstruction of mammal individual history
Oxygen and strontium isotopes as provenance indicators of fish at archaeological sites
Radiocarbon Dating of Calcined Bones
Over the past decade, radiocarbon dating of the carbonate contained in the mineral fraction of calcined bones has emerged as a viable alternative to dating skeletal remains in situations where collagen is no longer present. However, anomalously low δ 13 C values have been reported for calcined bones, suggesting that the mineral fraction of bone is altered. Therefore, exchange with other sources of carbon during heating cannot be excluded. Here, w…
The isotope record of short- and long-term dietary changes in sheep tooth enamel
Géochimie isotopique des ossements brûlés
Bien que fréquemment retrouvés dans les sites archéologiques, les os brûlés ont longtemps été négligés par les géochimistes. Après un bref rappel sur la minéralogie et la diagenèse des tissus squelettiques des vertébrés, l’ensemble des transformations physico-chimiques induites par la combustion des os à haute température est rappelée. L’implication de ces modifications pour la reconstruction des régimes alimentaires par l’analyse des rapports en…
Isotope Geochemistry of Burned Bones
Though they are frequently found at archaeological sites, burned bones have long been neglected by geochemists. After a brief review of the mineralogy and diagenesis of vertebrate skeletal tissues, all the physico-chemical changes induced by the high temperature combustion of bones are summarized. The implications of these changes for the reconstruction of diets through stable isotope ratios analysis and for the radiocarbon dating of bone remains…
Radiocarbon dating of biological apatites
First wave of cultivators spread to Cyprus at least 10,600 y ago
Early Neolithic sedentary villagers started cultivating wild cereals in the Near East 11,500 y ago [Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)]. Recent discoveries indicated that Cyprus was frequented by Late PPNA people, but the earliest evidence until now for both the use of cereals and Neolithic villages on the island dates to 10,400 y ago. Here we present the recent archaeological excavation at Klimonas, which demonstrates that established villagers were…
Variability in the marine radiocarbon reservoir effect in Muscat (Sultanate of Oman) during the 4th millennium BC
Radiocarbon Dating of Calcined Bones
Radiocarbon dating of the carbonate remaining in calcined bones is widely regarded as a viable alternative to date skeletal remains in situations where collagen is no longer present. However, anomalously low δ 13 C values measured in calcined bones prompted questions about the origin of the carbon used for dating. The goal of this study was to quantify the magnitude of carbon isotope exchange between bone carbonate and environmental CO 2 for bone…
Jean-François Saliège (1943–2012)
Jean-François Saliège passed away on Friday, 1 June 2012, following a heart attack at age 68. Jean-François was born in Chartres and spent his entire career in Paris, a city that he particularly enjoyed. He was hired in 1965 as a junior technician at the Laboratoire de Géologie Dynamique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris at La Sorbonne University (Director Louis Glangeaud), where he participated in the creation of the radiocarbon and mass spect…
Can we Use Calcined Bones for 14 C Dating the Paleolithic
This work aims to test the reliability of calcined bones for radiocarbon dating of the Paleolithic. Fifty-five calcined bone samples coming from Aurignacian and Gravettian layers at Abri Pataud (Dordogne, France) were selected based on their macroscopic features. For each sample, the heating state was estimated on the basis of bone crystallinity (splitting factor [SF] using FTIR) and δ 13 C value. Twenty-seven bone samples (3 unburnt and 24 calci…
Can We Use Calcined Bones for Radiocarbon Dating the Paleolithic
This work aims to test the reliability of calcined bones for radiocarbon dating of the Paleolithic. Fifty-five calcined bone samples coming from Aurignacian and Gravettian layers at Abri Pataud (Dordogne, France) were selected based on their macroscopic features. For each sample, the heating state was estimated on the basis of bone crystallinity (splitting factor [SF] using FTIR) and δ13C value. Twenty-seven bone samples (3 unburnt and 24 calcine…
Direct 14 C Dating of Early and Mid-Holocene Saharan Pottery
The aim of this study is to directly radiocarbon date pottery from prehistoric rock-art shelters in the Tassili n'Ajjer (central Sahara). We used a combined geochemical and microscopic approach to determine plant material in the pottery prior to direct 14 C dating. The ages obtained range from 5270 ± 35 BP (6276–5948 cal BP) to 8160 ± 45 BP (9190–9015 cal BP), and correlate with the chronology derived from pottery typology. Our results document t…
ESR, U-series and paleomagnetic dating of Gigantopithecus fauna from Chuifeng Cave, Guangxi, southern China
Several Gigantopithecus faunas associated with taxonomically undetermined hominoid fossils and/or stone artifacts are known from southern China. These faunas are particularly important for the study of the evolution of humans and other mammals in Asia. However, the geochronology of the Gigantopithecus faunas remains uncertain. In order to solve this problem, a program of geochronological studies of Gigantopithecus faunas in Guangxi Province was r…
De l’utilisation des isotopes stables du carbone dans la datation par la méthode du radiocarbone
Second Radiocarbon Intercomparison Program for the Chauvetpont d'Arc Cave, Ardèche, France
The Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave is one of the most important sites for the study of the earliest manifestations and development of prehistoric art at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. Different dating techniques have been performed thus far (AMS 14 C, U/Th TIMS, 36 Cl dating) to model the chronological framework of this decorated cave. The cave yielded several large charcoal fragments, which enabled the opportunity for obtaining multiple dates;…
Diet and mobility in a late neolithic population of coastal oman inferred from radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis
In Oman, the presence of highly productive marine environments, coupled with relatively limited land resources, have led to intense exploitation of coastal resources, but the question of the seasonality of occupation of coastal sites remains open. Our aim is to evaluate the contribution of marine resources to the diet of the Neolithic population of Ra's al‐Hamra 5 (RH‐5) to shed new light on its mobility, using stable isotopes and radiocarbon ( 1…
Impact of heating conditions on the carbon and oxygen isotope composition of calcined bone
First preliminary evidence for basketry and nut consumption in the Capsian culture (ca. 10,000–7500BP)
New insights on the first Neolithic societies in the Horn of Africa
The site of Wakrita is a small Neolithic establishment located on a wadi in the tectonic depression of Gobaad in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. The 2005 excavations yielded abundant ceramics that enabled us to define one Neolithic cultural facies of this region, which was also identified at the nearby site of Asa Koma. The faunal remains confirm the importance of fishing in Neolithic settlements close to Lake Abbé, but also the importance of bov…
Les tumulus à couloir et enclos de la Tassili du Fadnoun, Tassili Azger (Algérie)
Among the countless funerary monuments present in the Sahara, the corridor and enclosure tumulus (CET) display particularly original architectural features. Their chronology is now well established for the Nigerien Sahara, but remains poorly known for the Tassili Azger in south-eastern Algeria, despite the abundance of monuments identified. This article presents the first results of direct AMS 14 C dating of the mineral fraction (bioapatite) of h…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (48 works) · Geography (47 works) · Archaeology (46 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (36 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (29 works) · Biology (25 works) · Geology (24 works) · Radiocarbon dating (23 works) · Chemistry (19 works) · History (16 works)