Éric Huysecom
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A Later Stone Age quartz knapping workshop and fireplace dated to the Early Holocene in Senegal: The Ravin Blanc X site (RBX) Open
Well-dated and well-preserved Later Stone Age sites are unfortunately scarce in West Africa. The few known ones exhibit significant typo-technical variability, reflecting diverse socio-cultural behaviors that remain poorly understood. The …
Archaeological Glass Beads as Evidence of Exchange Dynamics in West Africa Open
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 so…
The systematic techno-stylistic and chemical study of glass beads from post-15th century West African sites Open
The systematic chemical analysis of large collections of archaeological glass beads is essential to better understand trade patterns at different times around the world. Glass beads’ trade towards and within sub-Saharan West Africa grew ex…
Evidence for discrete ochre exploitation 35,000 years ago in West Africa Open
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Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal Open
The understanding of cultural dynamics at work at the end of the Final Pleistocene in West Africa suffers from a significant lack of excavated and dated sites, particularly in the Sahelian and Sudanian ecozones. While the Later Stone Age s…
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal Open
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…
A West African Middle Stone Age site dated to the beginning of MIS 5: Archaeology, chronology, and paleoenvironment of the Ravin Blanc I (eastern Senegal) Open
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…
Agricultural diversification in West Africa: an archaeobotanical study of the site of Sadia (Dogon Country, Mali) Open
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 evolut…
The Rediscovery of Jan Ruyscher and Its Consequence Open
In 2014, a painting attributed to the seventeenth century Dutch artist Jan Ruyscher appeared on \nthe art market. Despite a prestigious career, Ruyscher, who possibly was a pupil of Rembrandt and \nHercules Seghers, vanished from art histo…
New data on settlement and environment at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa: Interdisciplinary investigation at Fatandi V, Eastern Senegal Open
The end of the Palaeolithic represents one of the least-known periods in the history of western Africa, both in terms of its chronology and the identification of cultural assemblages entities based on the typo-technical analyses of its ind…
Compositional and provenance study of glass beads from archaeological sites in Mali and Senegal at the time of the first Sahelian states Open
The presence of glass beads in West African archaeological sites provides important evidence of long-distance trade between this part of the continent and the rest of the world. Until recently, most of these items came from historical Sub-…
Synthèse morpho-sédimentaire et occurences archéologiques dans la vallée de la Falémé" (de 80 à 5 ka ; Sénégal oriental) : mise en évidence d'une permanence des occupations à la transition Pléistocène-Holocène Open
Studies conducted along the Falémé River (East Senegal) since 2011, in Sansande-Missira sector, inform our understanding of the stratigraphy of Pleistocene alluvial formations. Radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating set a…
Radiocarbon Dating and the Protection of Cultural Heritage Open
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 attentio…
Conference Report on Session 85 "Tracking the Neolithization Processes on Both Sides of the Sinai: a Bridge Between the Near East and North-Eastern Africa" Open
At the 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Bern (4th – 8th September 2019), the Session 85 entitled ‟Tracking Neolithization Processes on Both Sides of the Sinai: a Bridge Between the Near East and North-Ea…
Cultural pathways to development among communities Open
Illicit trade in cultural goods lead to heritage impoverishment and social destabilization of rural communities in Mali, whose cultural richness contrasts with economic poverty. Cultural banks were born in this context, to link actions of …