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Solange Rigaud

@solangerigaud.bsky.social
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Researcher @CNRS @univbordeaux and @PACEA_Bordeaux #HumanEvolution #archaeology #shell #anthropology #bead

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🧪 Des premières modifications corporelles à la fast fashion : que nous apprend l’archéologie sur l’histoire de la mode ? Dans @theconversation.com , 400 000 ans d’évolution des façons dont les humains transforment leur apparence shorturl.at/88yyp @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Avant la haute couture : 400 000 ans d’histoire de la mode
Bien avant la fast-fashion, les humains utilisaient déjà leur apparence pour communiquer. L’archéologie révèle l’origine sociale de la mode.
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New paper out with @lucdoyon.bsky.social At Niupodong Cave (SW China), bone tools, beads, document technological innovation, long-distance social networks (>600 km) during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition link.springer.com/article/10.1... @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Cultural and social innovations in southwestern China during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
The Pleistocene-Holocene transition witnessed diverse pathways to socio-economic complexity globally. In contrast to the agricultural trajectories, communities in the karst landscapes of southwestern ...
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🧪 Fashion is at the heart of economic, social, and environmental issues, several countries are seeking to regulate ultra-fast fashion practices. Yet when did the first fashions emerge? shorturl.at/veUgl with F. d'Errico @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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The Origins of Fashion
This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep-time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily di....
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🧪Heading to shorturl.at/Uaq0d at the Collège de France. Members of the extended @pacea.bsky.social family in the program, N.Zwyns, T.Tsanova, J.Henrion @mariesoressi.bsky.social I’ll speak about beads and networks during the Mid/UP transition @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Du Paléolithique moyen au Paléolithique supérieur : la transition en question | Collège de France
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Alexandre R @alexdrer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Cette semaine, j'ai le plaisir de coorganiser, pour le département @deptse-ub.bsky.social et avec le département Sciences archéologiques (@solangerigaud.bsky.social) une résidence d'écriture dédiée à la vulgarisation scientifique en plein milieu de la Dordogne. En plus, il y a @astropierre.com !
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
3 weeks working in Hokkaido to document Upper Paleolithic stone beads of Northern Japan with colleagues from Tokyo Metropolitan University and @alainqueffelec.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🧪Just out in open access! Our collaborative article “Combe-Cullier (Lacave, Lot): an exceptional Magdalenian sequence on the riverbanks of the Dordogne” is now published journals.openedition.org/galliap/5457 @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🧵 1/5 End of a fruitful week in Sofia & Dryanovo 🇧🇬 for the UISPP Commission 8 meeting “Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia”, focused on “The Origin and Development of the Eurasian Initial Upper Palaeolithic.” More info 👉 www.uispp.net/en/commissio...
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Workshop ‘Origin and Development of the Eurasian Initial Upper Palaeolithic'
15–17 October 2025, Dryanovo, Bulgaria
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Pleased to share my latest article Beads of shells and teeth from Abri Murat (Rocamadour, Lot) reveal long-distance networks linking Atlantic, Mediterranean, and inland groups 15,000+ years ago @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 23/09/2025
#PressRelease 🗞️ The oldest workshop for making shell jewellery has been unearthed at the Palaeolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot. 🐚 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/old...
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🐚 The littorina, characterized by a wide range of natural colors when fresh, originate from the Atlantic coast, situated about 100 km away from La Roche-à-Pierrot at the time of the occupation (7/20)
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🐚 🔬Microscopic analyses by @solangerigaud.bsky.social revealed that perforated shells show no wear, and pigment staining comes from nearby hematite. With 14 intact shells, little/no wear, and high fragmentation, the evidence supports a shell ornament workshop (8/20)
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🧪New in the PNAS with @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social shorturl.at/JDZYs We report a shell-bead workshop at Saint-Césaire (Fr) and suggest that Châtelperronian makers were influenced by, or part of, an early wave of H. sapiens in the region 42ka @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Châtelperronian cultural diversity at its western limits: Shell beads and pigments from La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire | PNAS
The timing and mechanisms underlying the gradual replacement of Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens groups have elicited heated debate for deca...
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
🧪Saint-Césaire annual fieldwork led by I. Crevecoeur. A key site to debates on the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition. I’m reassessing the Upper Paleo artefacts as part of my Threads project @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Excited to welcome Céline, a Master's student from ULiège, for a training stay at @pacea.bsky.social with me, Biba Hromodova and @lucdoyon.bsky.social ! Her project deals with ivory industry from Goyet & Spy. @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Last week’s interdisciplinary residency at Maison Bordes, Les Eyzies, with PhD students & postdocs from Sci Archéo & Environnement. Great practice in non-specialist writing & reflecting on societal relevance. River swims & a ride back to Bordeaux! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Just out! we challenge the long-standing tradition of defining Upper Paleolithic cultures primarily through stone tool artefacts. Instead, we turn to personal ornaments to explore cultural identities during the past shorturl.at/8mxKe @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Multivariate analyses of Aurignacian and Gravettian personal ornaments support cultural continuity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic
Traditionally, lithic artefacts have served as the principal proxy for the definition of archaeological cultures in the Upper Paleolithic. However, the culture-historical framework in use, constructed...
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🧪Train + 90 km ride to Tourtoirac! Excavations led by @lucdoyon.bsky.social serve as a field school for @univbordeaux.bsky.social MA students. more : shorturl.at/ISf4r Neanderthal remains, Gravettian ornaments—now part of my Threads project @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 Join the PACEA Laboratory! The CNRS @cnrsecologie.bsky.social is recruiting a senior postdoc (3 to 6-year contract) to work on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments. This is part of a long-term strategy and may lead to a permanent full-time research position emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Paléo-environnements et peuplements pléistocènes et holocènes M/F
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
From the field in Cyprus: traditional tribulum at our host’s place. This was a common threshing tool in Mediterranean agriculture until recently. Flint flakes and cores to produce them frequently found during surveys with @umr5608traces.bsky.social @nxcco.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
At the Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, exploring how Azilian foragers adorned their bodies 14ky ago. Convenient stay at La Maison Bordes @univbordeaux.bsky.social facility welcoming scholars from around the world for over 30 years, right across from the museum @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
At the MNHN Paris for a day honoring Jean-Denis Vigne and his immense impact on modern bioarchaeology A flute of champagne in the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution—the perfect way to end such a day! Recent publication on the PPN in Cyprus books.openedition.org/editionscnrs... @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
For the past 3 days, I’ve been at the Fyssen with @mariesoressi.bsky.social invited to speak on cooperation in human evolution—alongside archaeologists, primatologists & philosophers. I discuss how did innovation, identity & otherness shape us @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🧪@standupforscience.bsky.social Our colleague @teyssand31.bsky.social explain how alarming Trump's revisionism is. Attack on the Smithsonian is part of broad strategy to weaken education and the sharing of scientific knowledge shorturl.at/YvVzU @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Smithsonian attaquée par Trump
Les Musées de la Smithsonian Institution visés par une attaque de Trump et menacés de se voir privés de financement s’ils ne se plient pas à l’idéologie raciste du Président des USA.
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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Aujourd'hui la journée NeoAquitaine sur le thème des ressources avec plusieurs collègues de @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @solangerigaud.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🧪Great discussions with colleagues from Nice Univ and abroad @emmabaysal.bsky.social Happy to present at SPF meeting the long and complex history of body ornamentation, key to understanding identities, social ties, and evolution @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🧪1/2 Here’s a sample of words flagged by US agencies for restriction/avoidance, according to government documents as Trump seeks to purge the federal government of progressive initiatives. Archaeology has never been so disruptive! shorturl.at/dka55 #sciencenotsilence @standupforscience.bsky.social
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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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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Université de Bordeaux @univbordeaux.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
L'université de Bordeaux s’associe au mouvement Stand up For Science, qui alerte sur l’offensive aux États-Unis contre les institutions de la recherche, et invite ses communautés scientifiques à exprimer leur soutien à l’occasion du mouvement du 07/03 - + d'informations : standupforscience.fr...
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🧪 A week in Kraków studying over 120 mammal tooth pendants from the Borshuka child burial (~31 ka) with colleagues from the Polish Acad. of Sci. and B. Hromadova (postdoc @pacea.bsky.social threads project @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social) @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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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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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧪 'Archaeology of Symbols' team meeting at @pacea.bsky.social L. Courtnay (QUANTA ERC) discussed the evolution of numerical symbols, B. Hramodova (Threads project @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social ) presented Upper Paleolithic mammoth ivory industries @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🧪Reassessing Proto/Early Aurignacian beads from Isturitz Northern Pyrenees, amber, stone, bone, teeth, and shells on the menu @umr5608traces.bsky.social TRANSPYR @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social also funded by @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social THREADS @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🧪The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe is available, featuring my chapter on Identity, Gender, and Social Dynamics. Happy to contribute to this comprehensive volume alongside valued colleagues @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social #Archaeology shorturl.at/VfnRU
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Portrait très drôle mais sérieux par les étudiants du Master Médiation des Sc. @ubmontaigne.bsky.social . Les plus vieux d’entre nous auront la référence du générique que n’avaient probablement pas les étudiants 😄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=msEK... @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social
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Origines - Portrait de Solange Rigaud
YouTube video by Association Dealers de Science
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We are happy to announce the call for submission for the Session #81 Connectivity and its Impact on Cultural Dynamics during Prehistory at the upcoming #EAA2025 Annual Meeting. www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025 deadline 6th of February with @alainqueffelec.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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Clément Zanolli @clement-zanolli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A thoughtful open-access article on the role of archaeology and memorialization amidst Israel's current war on Gaza 🏺https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/baptist-hospital-in-gaza-current-ruins-for-future-archaeologists/C775E3465587591B2B60C139E8AD90B6
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The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists? | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists?
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🧪Field report season! Final report of 7y of excavation at Malaurie, Epipaleolithic, SW France, led by V. Laroulandie. Among the finds: perforated Atlantic gastropods—transported 225 km from the coast @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🧪 This Monday, my colleague S. Yelozer will present our findings on how Pre-Pottery Neolithic societies at Aşıklı, Turkey, expressed and navigated their individual and cultural identities @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧪Today marks an important milestone for my PhD student J. Baker. He defends his work on personal ornaments during the Gravettian. 4 years of work co-supervised with F. d'Errico www.nature.com/articles/s41... @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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