What a step forward during this 2024 campaign in The Gambia 🇬🇲!
The project HOME unveil the remains of a protohistoric settlement in the megalithic area (ca 10-14th c.): pots, stone tools and earthen architecture!!
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🎅🏾 Christmas paper alert! 🎅🏾
Are African pottery traditions really disappearing? New article in the Afr. Arch. Review on central Senegal and The Gambia (A. Delvoye and A. Mayor)
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Retour en images sur les avancées 2025 du projet HOME !
Aujourd'hui, cette magnifique vue de la fouille d'un habitat médiéval au sommet d'une colline, dominant le fleuve Gambie 😍😍
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Retour sur un mois de prospections en Gambie pour le projet HOME. Au menu : détection d’occupations humaines des deux derniers millénaires.
Bref, une bonne rando-science! 🏃🏃🏃
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News from the lab! 👯♂️
Yesterday I had the pleasure to visit my dear colleague Irka Hajdas for a conference at the lab. of Ion Beam Physics @ETH_en (Zurich), and bring new charcoal samples from the latest excavations of the project HOME (The Gambia).
Looking forward new dates! 🤩
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🔬🌾 Confocal microscopy & 3D texture analysis shed new light on how ancient societies processed plant foods, distinguishing grinding, pounding & dehusking on GSTs with unprecedented precision. A breakthrough for #UseWear studies! #Confocal#PlantFoods
Apprentissage des protocoles d’étude de corpus archéologiques et initiation au dessin de vestiges céramiques pour des étudiants mauritaniens l’Université de Nouakchott 💁🏾♂️🙏🏽
Visite magique et hors du temps de la ville abandonnée Ouadane, fondée au 12e s et relais du commerce du sel, avant une percée dans le désert vers le Guelb el-Richat ("l’Œil de l'Afrique", visible depuis l’espace) 🤯
Mentionné par l’érudit arabo-andalou Al-Bakri au 11e siècle, l’établissement d’Azougui est une occupation s’étendant sur plusieurs hectares, avec notamment une Qasba aujourd'hui en cours de fouille par une équipe franco-mauritanienne.
Tellement heureux de collaborer au nouveau projet archéo franco-mauritanien à Azougui, co-dir C. Capel (CNRS) et A.M. Ould Eida (IMRS)!! 🤩🤩
De nouvelles données passionnantes à venir sur la période médiévale!
📢 Great opportunity to get training in all fields of prehistory in an international context.
Applications for the International Master "Quaternary and Prehistory" are open until 31 March 2025:
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After 3.5 years of fieldwork, lab analysis, and writing, it all comes together in 582 pages of the most up to date archaeological, linguistic, genetic, oral historical, and palaeoenv. data on the Bantu Expansion. I am so happy to have just submitted this book for publication!
Come and join our session on transitions on a pan-african scale at SAfA2025 in Faro. With Charlotte Pruvost, Bahailu Habte, @MariannaFusco5, @OlivierScancar1
In addition to walls and "bricks", a study of earthen architectures also needs an examination of ground floors. Here a well preserved floor related to the base of a earthen wall (on the left) 🤩 Looking forward 2025 for extensive excavations!! @fns_ch@sciences_UNIGE@UNIGEnews
Precisely recording domestic earthen architecture prob. dating ca. 10-14th c. is a fantastic advance for central Senegal and The Gambia 🇸🇳🇬🇲
Here are some "bricks" or mass of clay, in place or collapsed, in stratigraphy 🤩🤩
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