Éric Huysecom
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3584735 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Éric Huysecom |
| PRENOMES | Éric |
| SOBRENOME | Huysecom |
| ASSINATURA | HUYSECOM E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4205-0914 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 329 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Mudbricks in Medieval West African Architecture
The Djoutoubaya settlement in the Falémé Valley (Senegal), occupied from the 9th to 14th centuries, provides key insights into West African mudbrick architecture prior to the 16th century. This study examines Djoutoubaya’s architectural evolution, focusing on a mudbrick complex dating to the 13th century. The presence of two distinct brick types – hand-modeled “loaf-shaped” and molded plano-convex – demonstrates diverse construction practices, wh…
Evidence for discrete ochre exploitation 35,000 years ago in West Africa
International audience
Archaeological Glass Beads as Evidence of Exchange Dynamics in West Africa
Glass beads are among the oldest objects in the glassmaking industry. In West Africa, archaeological glass beads are evidence of short-, medium- and long-distance trade within the continent and with the rest of the world, in relation to social and geopolitical circumstances. As glass beads relate to many aspects of the everyday life of a community, the interest of their study lies in gaining evidence about technological aspects, socio-cultural co…
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal
The study of the Palaeolithic in Senegal has made considerable progress in the last decade and has provided a renewed vision of the behavioral evolution of prehistoric populations in West Africa. The cultural trajectories within the region seem to be highly variable and bear witness to strong behavioral dynamics, the mechanisms of which still need to be better understood. However, the number of reliable, dated, and stratified sites, as well as th…
Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10437-021-09463-5
A West African Middle Stone Age site dated to the beginning of MIS 5
The Ravin Blanc I archaeological occurrence, dated to MIS 5, provides unprecedented data on the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of West Africa since well-contextualized archaeological sites pre-dating MIS 4/3 are extremely rare for this region. The combined approach on geomorphology, phytolith analysis, and OSL date estimations offers a solid framework for the MSA industry comprised in the Ravin Blanc I sedimentary sequence. The paleoenvironmental reconst…
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; …
Ounjougou Site Complex, Archaeology of the
The First Emergence of Ceramic Production in Africa
The discoveries at Ounjougou (Mali), an open-air site in the Dogon Country, shed new light on the “early Neolithic” in Africa. The stratigraphic sequence and a cluster of absolute dates established a terminus ante quem of 9400 cal bc for ceramic sherds associated with a small bifacial lithic industry. The emergence of this typo-technical complex corresponds to one of the wet phases of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition in West Africa, most proba…
A Phoenician glass eye bead from 7th–5th c. cal BCE Nin-Bèrè 3, Mali
Radiocarbon Dating and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
The modern antiquities market uses radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating to screen for forged objects. Although this fact shows the potential and power of the method, the circumstances where it is applied can be questionable and call for our attention. Here we present an outline of a call to radiocarbon laboratories for due diligence and best practice approaches to the analysis of antique objects requested by non-research clients
Diversification, Intensification and Specialization
Chronologie du Paléolithique ouest africain
Between continuity and discontinuity
The “Enhancement” of Cultural Heritage by AMS Dating
The looting of archaeological and ethnographic objects from emerging countries and areas of conflict has prospered due to the high prices that these objects can achieve on the art market. This commercial value now almost necessarily requires proof of authenticity by the object’s age. To do so, absolute dating has been conducted since the end of the 1970s on terra cotta art objects using the thermoluminescence method, a practice that has since bee…
Establishing a West African chrono-cultural framework
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 African Palaeolithic history
Early social complexity in the Dogon Country (Mali) as evidenced by a new chronology of funerary practices
A question of timing
L'occupation humaine de la vallée du Guringin (plaine du Séno, Mali)
Recent archaeological survey conducted in Mali in the Guringin Valley, located in the Séno Plain, as well as at the top of the nearby Bandiagara Escarpment, has produced evidence allowing the characterisation of numerous settlement sites and locations at which prehistoric metallurgy was practised. The latter have abundant surface material, mainly consisting of ceramics that show a considerable diversity of decoration. Analysis of the surface pott…
Lithic Industry as an Indicator of Ceramic Diffusion in the Early Neolithic of West Africa
Ounjougou (Dogon Country, Mali) is now known for the discovery there of pottery dating to the first half of the 10 th millennium cal BC, which is among the earliest evidence of the use of ceramics in Africa. While our understanding of early African ceramics is becoming well developed, certain other evidence associated with the first manifestations of the African Neolithic are still poorly understood, including notably the lithic industries. On th…
Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali)
L’Afrique de l’Ouest est actuellement totalement absente des débats portant sur le Middle Stone Age. Si des sites de cette période y sont décrits de longue date, leur contexte stratigraphique est souvent incertain ou inexistant. Tant en Afrique australe qu’en Europe occidentale, les progrès dans la connaissance de ces périodes reposent largement sur la construction d’un cadre chronologique général, de préférence corrélé aux variations paléoclimat…
Percussion bipolaire sur enclume
Encore trop souvent considérée comme relevant d’une production lithique expédiente, la percussion bipolaire sur enclume occupe cependant une place majeure dans les industries de certaines régions. Ainsi à Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali), ce mode de taille est régulièrement présent au sein des industries d’une séquence chronoculturelle qui s’étale sur plus de 100 000 ans, couvrant l’essentiel du Paléolithique moyen régional. Le recours à ce mode de t…
Inagina, l'ultime maison du fer
Population dynamics and Paleoclimate over the past 3000 years in the Dogon Country, Mali
West African Palaeolithic history
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…
Percussion bipolaire sur enclume
Encore trop souvent considérée comme relevant d’une production lithique expédiente, la percussion bipolaire sur enclume occupe cependant une place majeure dans les industries de certaines régions. Ainsi à Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali), ce mode de taille est régulièrement présent au sein des industries d’une séquence chronoculturelle qui s’étale sur plus de 100 000 ans, couvrant l’essentiel du Paléolithique moyen régional. Le recours à ce mode de t…
A West African Middle Stone Age site dated to the beginning of MIS 5
The Ravin Blanc I archaeological occurrence, dated to MIS 5, provides unprecedented data on the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of West Africa since well-contextualized archaeological sites pre-dating MIS 4/3 are extremely rare for this region. The combined approach on geomorphology, phytolith analysis, and OSL date estimations offers a solid framework for the MSA industry comprised in the Ravin Blanc I sedimentary sequence. The paleoenvironmental reconst…
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…
Palaeoenvironment and human population in West Africa
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Between continuity and discontinuity
La séquence pléistocène supérieur d'Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali, Afrique de l'Ouest)
A Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali), une séquence stratigraphique complexe est soumise, à la faveur d'une modification hydrographique locale, à une incision rapide du Yame et de ses affluents. Si les dépôts holocènes sont bien représentés, ce sont les formations du Pléistocène supérieur qui constituent l'essentiel du matériel comblant les reliefs développés dans les grès. Les enregistrements sédimentaires, riches en discontinuités, la grande diversité…
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
Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10437-021-09463-5
First Chrono-Cultural Reference Framework for the West African Paleolithic
Evidences of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic human settlements in sub-Saharan West Africa are relatively uncommon, poorly or not even dated, and come from surface sites or secondary stratigraphic context. The discovery, within the international research programme Palaeoenvironment and human settlement in West Africa , of an impressive Pleistocene sedimentary sequence with numerous archaeological levels in the sector of Ounjougou (Dogon Country, Mal…
Lithic Industry as an Indicator of Ceramic Diffusion in the Early Neolithic of West Africa
Ounjougou (Dogon Country, Mali) is now known for the discovery there of pottery dating to the first half of the 10 th millennium cal BC, which is among the earliest evidence of the use of ceramics in Africa. While our understanding of early African ceramics is becoming well developed, certain other evidence associated with the first manifestations of the African Neolithic are still poorly understood, including notably the lithic industries. On th…
Ounjougou, Mali
To date, archaeological sites dated between the 7th and 4th millennia cal BC are rare in West Africa. The Neolithic workshop of Promontoire at Ounjougou, Mali, had specialized in the bifacial shaping of armatures on sandstone, a local raw material. This industry was discovered in the upper section of a sequence of mixed fine red loess, dated near the site within an interval between the 6th and 4th millennia cal BC (OSL date of 6.3 ± 0.8 ka), whil…
A Phoenician glass eye bead from 7th–5th c. cal BCE Nin-Bèrè 3, Mali
L'occupation humaine de la vallée du Guringin (plaine du Séno, Mali)
Recent archaeological survey conducted in Mali in the Guringin Valley, located in the Séno Plain, as well as at the top of the nearby Bandiagara Escarpment, has produced evidence allowing the characterisation of numerous settlement sites and locations at which prehistoric metallurgy was practised. The latter have abundant surface material, mainly consisting of ceramics that show a considerable diversity of decoration. Analysis of the surface pott…
Radiocarbon Dating and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
The modern antiquities market uses radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating to screen for forged objects. Although this fact shows the potential and power of the method, the circumstances where it is applied can be questionable and call for our attention. Here we present an outline of a call to radiocarbon laboratories for due diligence and best practice approaches to the analysis of antique objects requested by non-research clients
Establishing a West African chrono-cultural framework
Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali)
L’Afrique de l’Ouest est actuellement totalement absente des débats portant sur le Middle Stone Age. Si des sites de cette période y sont décrits de longue date, leur contexte stratigraphique est souvent incertain ou inexistant. Tant en Afrique australe qu’en Europe occidentale, les progrès dans la connaissance de ces périodes reposent largement sur la construction d’un cadre chronologique général, de préférence corrélé aux variations paléoclimat…
The “Enhancement” of Cultural Heritage by AMS Dating
The looting of archaeological and ethnographic objects from emerging countries and areas of conflict has prospered due to the high prices that these objects can achieve on the art market. This commercial value now almost necessarily requires proof of authenticity by the object’s age. To do so, absolute dating has been conducted since the end of the 1970s on terra cotta art objects using the thermoluminescence method, a practice that has since bee…
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…
La cabane funéraire SOM de Compiègne "Le Hazoy" (Oise)
Die Tottenhiitte mit SOM -Kollektivbestattung von "Le Hazoy" bei Compiègne (Oise, France). Bereits Anfang des Jahrhunderts wies der Compiegner Archäologe Clément Quenel auf die Fundstellen "Le Coq Galleux" und "Le Hazoy" hin. Gelegentlich der Errichtung industrieller Anlagen im Süden Compiegnes am Ufer der Oise sind nun im Jahre 1979 Grabungen durchgeführt worden. Wàhrend das Gelände abgeschoben wurde, fand sich im Südwesten einer neolithischen S…
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal
The study of the Palaeolithic in Senegal has made considerable progress in the last decade and has provided a renewed vision of the behavioral evolution of prehistoric populations in West Africa. The cultural trajectories within the region seem to be highly variable and bear witness to strong behavioral dynamics, the mechanisms of which still need to be better understood. However, the number of reliable, dated, and stratified sites, as well as th…
Le monument mégalithique de Laviô (province de Luxembourg)
Huysecom Eric. Le monument mégalithique de Laviô (province de Luxembourg). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 79, n°9, 1982. pp. 279-283
L'apport des monnaies découvertes à Champlieu (Oise), lors des campagnes de fouille de 1978 à 1981
Huysecom Eric, Woimant Georges Pierre. L'apport des monnaies découvertes à Champlieu (Oise), lors des campagnes de fouille de 1978 à 1981. In: Revue archéologique de Picardie, n°1-2, 1983. Les celtes dans le nord du bassin parisien. pp. 232-234
Monnaies gauloises récemment mises au jour dans le département de l'Oise
Huysecom Eric. Monnaies gauloises récemment mises au jour dans le département de l'Oise. In: Revue archéologique de Picardie, n°1-2, 1985. pp. 3-12
La cabane funéraire SOM de Compiègne "Le Hazoy" (Oise)
Die Tottenhiitte mit SOM -Kollektivbestattung von "Le Hazoy" bei Compiègne (Oise, France). Bereits Anfang des Jahrhunderts wies der Compiegner Archäologe Clément Quenel auf die Fundstellen "Le Coq Galleux" und "Le Hazoy" hin. Gelegentlich der Errichtung industrieller Anlagen im Süden Compiegnes am Ufer der Oise sind nun im Jahre 1979 Grabungen durchgeführt worden. Wàhrend das Gelände abgeschoben wurde, fand sich im Südwesten einer neolithischen S…
Un site néolithique de l'Adrar Tabarbarout (Sahara malien oriental)
L'étude du matériel archéologique du gisement de l'Adrar Tabarbarout permet de préciser l'un des nombreux faciès néolithiques du Sahara malien. Cette découverte confirme également l'hypothèse de l'origine saharienne de certaines des cultures plus méridionales comme celles du néolithique dunaire du Sénégal ou du faciès néolithique du Baoulé au Mali
Palaeoenvironment and human population in West Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
First Chrono-Cultural Reference Framework for the West African Paleolithic
Evidences of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic human settlements in sub-Saharan West Africa are relatively uncommon, poorly or not even dated, and come from surface sites or secondary stratigraphic context. The discovery, within the international research programme Palaeoenvironment and human settlement in West Africa , of an impressive Pleistocene sedimentary sequence with numerous archaeological levels in the sector of Ounjougou (Dogon Country, Mal…
La séquence pléistocène supérieur d'Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali, Afrique de l'Ouest)
A Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali), une séquence stratigraphique complexe est soumise, à la faveur d'une modification hydrographique locale, à une incision rapide du Yame et de ses affluents. Si les dépôts holocènes sont bien représentés, ce sont les formations du Pléistocène supérieur qui constituent l'essentiel du matériel comblant les reliefs développés dans les grès. Les enregistrements sédimentaires, riches en discontinuités, la grande diversité…
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…
Population dynamics and Paleoclimate over the past 3000 years in the Dogon Country, Mali
Ounjougou, Mali
To date, archaeological sites dated between the 7th and 4th millennia cal BC are rare in West Africa. The Neolithic workshop of Promontoire at Ounjougou, Mali, had specialized in the bifacial shaping of armatures on sandstone, a local raw material. This industry was discovered in the upper section of a sequence of mixed fine red loess, dated near the site within an interval between the 6th and 4th millennia cal BC (OSL date of 6.3 ± 0.8 ka), whil…
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 (Pays dogon, Mali)
L’Afrique de l’Ouest est actuellement totalement absente des débats portant sur le Middle Stone Age. Si des sites de cette période y sont décrits de longue date, leur contexte stratigraphique est souvent incertain ou inexistant. Tant en Afrique australe qu’en Europe occidentale, les progrès dans la connaissance de ces périodes reposent largement sur la construction d’un cadre chronologique général, de préférence corrélé aux variations paléoclimat…
Percussion bipolaire sur enclume
Encore trop souvent considérée comme relevant d’une production lithique expédiente, la percussion bipolaire sur enclume occupe cependant une place majeure dans les industries de certaines régions. Ainsi à Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali), ce mode de taille est régulièrement présent au sein des industries d’une séquence chronoculturelle qui s’étale sur plus de 100 000 ans, couvrant l’essentiel du Paléolithique moyen régional. Le recours à ce mode de t…
Lithic Industry as an Indicator of Ceramic Diffusion in the Early Neolithic of West Africa
Ounjougou (Dogon Country, Mali) is now known for the discovery there of pottery dating to the first half of the 10 th millennium cal BC, which is among the earliest evidence of the use of ceramics in Africa. While our understanding of early African ceramics is becoming well developed, certain other evidence associated with the first manifestations of the African Neolithic are still poorly understood, including notably the lithic industries. On th…
L'occupation humaine de la vallée du Guringin (plaine du Séno, Mali)
Recent archaeological survey conducted in Mali in the Guringin Valley, located in the Séno Plain, as well as at the top of the nearby Bandiagara Escarpment, has produced evidence allowing the characterisation of numerous settlement sites and locations at which prehistoric metallurgy was practised. The latter have abundant surface material, mainly consisting of ceramics that show a considerable diversity of decoration. Analysis of the surface pott…
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…
West African Palaeolithic history
Establishing a West African chrono-cultural framework
Chronologie du Paléolithique ouest africain
Between continuity and discontinuity
The “Enhancement” of Cultural Heritage by AMS Dating
The looting of archaeological and ethnographic objects from emerging countries and areas of conflict has prospered due to the high prices that these objects can achieve on the art market. This commercial value now almost necessarily requires proof of authenticity by the object’s age. To do so, absolute dating has been conducted since the end of the 1970s on terra cotta art objects using the thermoluminescence method, a practice that has since bee…
A Phoenician glass eye bead from 7th–5th c. cal BCE Nin-Bèrè 3, Mali
Geography (28 obras) · Archaeology (27 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 obras) · Art (12 obras) · African Studies and Geopolitics (11 obras) · Geology (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (9 obras) · Humanities (9 obras) · Pleistocene (9 obras)