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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A fantastic week at the #AWRANA2026 with presentations by @paulovaml.bsky.social, @keyandesj.bsky.social and myself from the #ERCStG ExOsTech team with new insights into European Lower and Middle Palaeolithic unmodified bone tools. Many thanks to the organizers for making this gathering memorable!

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Were all ‘smoothers’ used to smooth hides? Likely not! In a new study, we demonstrate the relevance of quantitative use wear methods to document the function of Middle Palaeolithic bone tools. Turns out that Neanderthals at Abri du Maras, Rhône Valley, France, used bone tools to flay carcasses…

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Since Nov. 17, @keyandesj.bsky.social is at the Angoulême Museum to study the bone tools from Artenac. This fantastic collection is crucial for the #ERCStG ExOsTech to understand the origin and development of bone tools in Europe. @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

With @lucdoyon.bsky.social , we discussed how beads and bone tool technology can help trace the dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia. Our colleague N. Zwyns (PACEA) shared new insights on the IUP in mainland Asia (~45 ka), and P. Zhang (PACEA) presented on stone tool tech in China MIS 3.

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Happy to be in Dryanovo, Bulgaria, for a fascinating IUP workshop organized by Tsenka Tsanova and her team. And honoured to be among 40 years history of collaborations involving @univbordeaux.bsky.social reunited here with colleagues from ~15 Eurasian countries…

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

For the last weeks, @paulovaml.bsky.social and I were at the Paläon Museum to study the bone tools from Schöningen. This fantastic collection is crucial for the #ERCStG ExOsTech to understand the origin of bone tools in Europe. @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

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CSIC @csic.es · 12/03/2025

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Atapuerca reescribe la historia del primer poblamiento europeo 🦴Un estudio del @iphes-cerca.bsky.social, en el que participan dos institutos del #CSIC, atribuye un fragmento facial hallado en #Atapuerca a la especie ‘Homo affinis erectus’ 👉http://tiny.cc/vg2d001 🎥 Antonio Rodríguez (#IAM_CSIC)👇

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The end of a fruitful week in Halle (Saale, Germany) with colleagues from the Landesmuseum, studying ornaments for my THREADS project @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social and bone tools with L. Doyon for his ERC ExOsTech research. Exciting insights @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 05/03/2025

Ancient humans were systematically producing bone tools as early as 1.5 million years ago, according to a study in Nature. Bone tools discovered in Tanzania pre-date previous evidence of systematic bone tool production by more than a million years. go.nature.com/3XpB20D 🏺 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows tools made on long bone diaphysis of very large mammals.

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Fundacion Atapuerca @fatapuerca.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago www.nature.com/articles/s41... congrats!!

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 05/03/2025

#PressRelease🗞️ Twenty-seven standardised bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in Tanzania. This discovery challenges our understanding of early hominin technological evolution. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/sta...

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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Registrations "Digital Archaeology" Summer School! June 30 – July 5, 2025 @univbordeaux.bsky.social hands-on introduction to Photogrammetry 3D modeling Geometric morphometrics Surface roughness quantification Epigraphic data & AI tools. limited seats—don’t miss this opportunity! shorturl.at/vjwM7

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Ecole d'été/Summer school

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This week, we are in Brussels at the IRSNB to collect data for Kelly-Ann Desjardins’ master thesis. She compares retouchers on human and animal bones to establish whether the human ones were used in a symbolic way! ERC StG ExOsTech @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @cedric-beauval.bsky.social

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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Notre chère collègue à la une !

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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Excited for today's 'Surface' team meeting! Discussion on our work on high-res methods for studying modifications on bone/stone artifacts. Plus, we welcome our new postdoc, P. Mateo Lomba (ERC ExOsTech @lucdoyon.bsky.social ) to the team! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Oh how much I like that reply…

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Looking for a postdoc in use-wear analysis of Pleistocene expedient osseous tools? Check out this offer from the #ERCStG ExOsTech project at #universitébordeaux euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/296676

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Post-doctoral researcher on Western European Expedient Osseous Technology

The Unité Mixte de Recherche 5199 PACEA of the CNRS, Univ.

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