Publications, congresses and public events

1) RINEAU V., GARCÍA-MEDRANO P., ZEITOUN V.,  ZARAGÜETA R., ASHTON N., ARZARELLO M., OLLÉ A., LAMOTTE A., PERETTO C., MONCEL  M-H. 2026. Technological innovations and regional diversity in Western Europe at ca. the MIS 11 threshold: a cladistic approach. Quaternary Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2026.100314. 

GARCÍA-MEDRANO P.,· ARZARELLO, M., ASHTON N., OLLÉ A., MONCEL M.H. 2025. Technological strategies and diversity of management of limestone pebbles at the site of Terra Amata (South-East, France) in the context of MIS11 in Western Europe.  Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2025) 8:42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-025-00242-1 

N. Limondin-Lozouet et al. 2025. The ‘La Celle interglacial’: a key-record of MIS 11c palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimate in NW Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 370, 109667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109667 

Alice Rodriguez, Emily Coco, Marie‐Hélène Moncel,  Jackie Despriée, Bruce Hardy,· Radu Iovita. 2025. Use‐Wear Analysis Shows Changing Handaxe Grip and Use Across Time at la Noira (France). Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2025) 8:32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-025-00241-2

Marie-Hélène Moncel. The Conversation. 2023. "Connaître l’émergence de Neandertal pour comprendre sa disparition"

Marie Bouchet, Amaëlle Landais, Antoine Grisart, Frédéric Parrenin, Frédéric Prié, Roxanne Jacob, Elise Fourré, Emilie Capron, Dominique Raynaud, Vladimir Ya Lipenkov, Marie-France Loutre, Thomas Extier, Anders Svensson, Etienne Legrain, Patricia Martinerie, Markus Leuenberger, Wei Jiang, Florian Ritterbusch, Zheng-Tian Lu, and Guo-Min Yang 2023 - The AICC2023 chronological framework and associated timescale for the EPICA Dome C ice core, Climate of the Past. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1081, 2023.

Pierre Antoine, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Pierre Voinchet, Nicole Limondin-Lozouet, Patrick Auguste, Sylvie Coutard, Julie Dabkowski, D. Hérisson & M. H. Moncel. 2023. The last 1 Ma in the fluvial terraces system of the River Somme Valley (Northern France): the background of the first Acheulean occupation of Northwestern Europe. INQUA Rome, Italie.

Sassoon D., Lebreton V., Combourieu-Nebout N., Peyron O., Moncel M.-H. 2023. Termination V and MIS 11 in the Alboran Sea: palaeoenvironmental and climatic insights from a high-resolution marine record. INQUA Rome, Italie.

Nicole Limondin-Lozouet, Julie Dabkowski. 2023. Common characteristics and differences of past and present interglacials in NW Europe: combining malacology and geochemistry. INQUA Rome, Italie.

D.Sassoon, V. Lebreton, N. Combourieu-Nebout, O. Peyron, M-H. Moncel. 2023.Palaeoenvironmental changes in the southwestern Mediterranean (ODP site 976, Alboran sea) during the MIS 12/11 transition and the MIS 11 interglacial and implications for hominin populations. Quaternary Science Review 304 (2023) 108010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108010

Maleki Porazmiani S., Combourieu-Nebout N., Lebreton V., Londeix L., Moncel M-H. 2022. Dinoflagellate cysts response to climate change during the MIS 12/11 transition. 2022. 5th MedPalyno Congress/XXVIth APLF Symposium, Paestum, Italy, 2022, Paestum, Italy 

Sassoon D., Lebreton V., Combourieu-Nebout N., Moncel M-H. 2022. Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic change in the south-west Mediterranean (site 976, Alboran Sea) during the MIS 12/11 transition. 2022. 5th MedPalyno Congress/XXVIth APLF Symposium, Paestum, Italy, 2022, Paestum, Italy 

P. García-Medrano, C. Shipton, M. White, N. Ashton, 2022. Acheulean Diversity in Britain (MIS 15-MIS11): From the Standardization to the Regionalization of Technology. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10:917207. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.917207

Hes G.,  Sánchez Goñi M. F., Bouttes N. ,2022.Impact of terrestrial biosphere on the atmospheric CO2concentration across Termination V.

Woong Yang J-W, Brandon M, Landais A., Duchamp-Alphonse S., Blunier T., Prié F., Extier T. 2022. Global biosphere primary productivity changes during the past eight glacial cycles. Science 375, 1145-1151. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8826

Mateo-Lomba, P., Fernández-Marchena, J.L., Cazalla, I., Valtierra, N., Cáceres, I., Ollé, A., 2022. An assessment of bone tool cleaning procedures in preparation for traceological analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 14, 95.Clim. Past, 18, 1429–1451, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1429-2022

Mercader, J., Belev, G., Bushozi, P., Clarke, S., Favreau, J., Itambu, M., Jianfeng, Z., Koromo, S., Larter, F., Lee, P., Maley, J., Fernández-Marchena, J.L., Mohamed, A., Mwambwiga, A., Ngisaruni, B., Kingi, M., Olesilau, L., Patalano, R., Pedergnana, A., Sammynaiken, R., Siljedal, J., Soto, M., Tucker, L., Walde, D., Ollé, A., 2022. Microbotanical residues for the study of early hominin tools. Scientific Reports 2022 12:1. 12, 2951.

Yeşilova, G.C., Ollé, A., Vergès, J.M., 2022. Damaged and scattered: Testing the complete small-sized quartz refit connection sets of level E, in terms of technology and spatial distribution. An experimental analysis for the bipolar flaking on an anvil from the MIS 11 site of La Cansaladeta (Tarragona, Spain). In: Bipolar Technique Production, Products and Function of Lithic Artefacts. Abstract Book. Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Genova, pp. 14–17.

Asryan, L., Ollé, AndreuArteaga-Brieba, A., Martín-Viveros, J.I., Fernández-Marchena, J.L., Mosquera, M., 2021. What does the functional study of the lithic artefacts of a kill-butchery site tell us? A case study from the Gran Dolina TD10.2 subunit (Atapuerca, Spain). In: Bouzouggar, A., Boudad, L., Masfour, A., El Faleh El, M., Atki, M., Benbaqqal, H., Segaoui, F. (Eds.), Evolution Des Sociétés Humaines de La Préhistoire à La Protohistoire. UISPP2021 Book of Abstracts. Meknès, pp. 76–77.

Blain, H.-A., Fagoaga, A., Ruiz-Sánchez, F.J., García-Medrano, P., Ollé, A., Jiménez-Arenas, J.M., 2021. Coping with arid environments: A critical threshold for human expansion in Europe at the Marine Isotope Stage 12/11 transition? The case of the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Human Evolution. 153, 102950.

Yeşilova, G.C., Ollé, A., Vergès, J.M., 2021. An archaeostratigraphic study for the MIS 11 site of La Cansaladeta (Tarragona, Spain). Techno-spatial investigation through refit / conjoin connections of the archaeological levels D-E-I-J. In: Bouzouggar, A., Boudad, L., Masfour, A., El Faleh El, M., Atki, M., Benbaqqal, H., Segaoui, F. (Eds.), Evolution Des Sociétés Humaines de La Préhistoire à La Protohistoire. UISPP2021 Book of Abstracts. pp. 221–222.

Yeşilova, G.C., Ollé, A., Vergès, J.M., 2021. Is a spatial investigation possible without long-distance refit/conjoin? Application to the MIS 11 lithic assemblage of levels E and J from La Cansaladeta site (Tarragona, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13, 157.

Paula García‐Medrano,Jackie Despriée, Marie‐Hélène Moncel (2022). Innovations in Acheulean biface production at la Noira (France) during Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-146762/v1 

Fabrizio Marra, Alison Pereira, Giovanni Boschian, Séebastien Nomade (2022). MIS 13 and MIS 11 aggradational successions of the Paleo-Tiber delta: Geochronological constraints to sea-level fluctuations and to the Acheulean sites of Castel di Guido and Malagrotta (Rome, Italy) Quaternary international, online 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.12.016 

A. Landais, B. Stenni, V. Masson-Delmotte, J. Jouzel, A. Cauquoin, E. Fourré, B. Minster, E. Selmo, T. Extier, M. Werner, F. Vimeux, R. Uemura, I. Crotti & A. Grisart (2021). Interglacial Antarctic–Southern Ocean climate decoupling due to moisture source area shifts. Nature Geoscience volume 14, pages918–923 (2021). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00856-4 

J. Dabkowski, N. Limondin-Lozouet  (2021). Comparison of temperature and humidity during MIS 11 and MIS 5e interglacials with the Holocene using stable isotopes in tufa deposits from northern France.Quaternary Research , First View , pp. 1 - 12 https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.66 

Brandon, M., Landais, A., Duchamp-Alphonse, S., Favre, V., Schmitz, L., Abrial, H., ... & Blunier, T. (2020). Exceptionally high biosphere productivity at the beginning of Marine Isotopic Stage 11. Nature communications, 11(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15739-2

Extier, T., Landais, A., Bréant, C., Prié, F., Bazin, L., Dreyfus, G., ... & Leuenberger, M. (2018). On the use of δ18Oatm for ice core dating. Quaternary science reviews, 185, 244-257. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379117309514

Fabrizio Marra, Alison Pereira, Giovanni Boschian, Sébastien Nomade. The MIS 13 and MIS 11 aggradational successions: geochronological constraints to sea-level fluctuations and to the Acheulean sites of Castel di Guido and Malagrotta (Rome, Italy). Soumis à Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

Lorenzo Monaco, Danilo M. Palladino, Mario Gaeta, Fabrizio Marrab Gianluca Sottili, Niklas Leicherc, Giorgio Mannella, Sébastien Nomade, Alison Pereira, Eleonora Regattieri, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Paul G. Albert, Ilenia Arienzo, Massimo D’Antonio, Paola Petrosino, Christina Manning, Biagio Giaccio. Mediterranean tephrostratigraphy and peri-Tyrrhenian explosive activity revised through the 430-365 ka record from Fucino Basin (central Italy). Soumis à Earth Science Review.

Parrenin, F., Bazin, L., Capron, E., Landais, A., Lemieux-Dudon, B., & Masson-Delmotte, V. (2015). IceChrono1: a probabilistic model to compute a common and optimal chronology for several ice cores. Geoscientific Model Development, 8(5), 1473-1492. https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/8/1473/2015/

Antoine, P., Coutard, S., Bahain, J-J., Locht, J.-L., Herisson, D., Goval, E. 2021. The last 750 ka in loess-palaeosols sequences from Northern France: environmental background and dating of the Western European Palaeolithic. Journal of Quaternary Science. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.328 ; hal-03164133

Antoine, P., Bahain, J.-J., & Coutard, S. & Limondin-Lozouet, N. 2020. La séquence de Grâce-Autoroute (Somme, France) : une référence pour  l’enregistrement des variations climatiques quaternaires depuis 1 Ma à l’Ouest de l’Europe. Quaternaire 31(3), 205-230. https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.14273.

Moncel M-H., Ashton N., Arzarello M., Fontana F., Lamotte A., Scott B., Muttillo B., Berruti B., Nenzioni G., Tuffreau A., Peretto C. 2021 - An Early Levallois core technology between MIS 12 and 9 in Western Europe? Journal of Human Evolution 139, 102735. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248419303665

Banks W.E., Moncel M-H., Raynal J-P., Cobos M. E., Romero-Alvarez D., Woillez M-N., Faivre J-P., Gravina B., Locht J-L. - Neanderthals in Western Europe anchored to territories rather than ecological niches across Marine Isotope Stages 5a–4. Nature Scientific Reports 11, 5346. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935894/

García-Medrano P., Ashton N., Moncel M-H., Ollé A. 2020 - The WEAP Method: A new age in the analysis of the Acheulean handaxes. Journal of Paleolithic Archeology, 1-38. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-020-00054-5

Goñi, M. F. S. 2020. Regional impacts of climate change and its relevance to human evolution. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2.

Moncel M-H., Biddittu I., Manzi G., Saracino B., Pereira A., Nomade S., Hertler C., Voinchet P., Bahain J.-J.2020 - Emergence of regional cultural traditions during the Lower Paleolithic: evidence of a network of sites at the MIS 11-10 transition in Central Italy (Frosinone-Ceprano basin).  Anthropological and archaeological sciences 12(8), 1-32.

Moncel M-H., Garcia Medrano, P., Despriée, J., Arnaud, J., Voinchet, P., Bahain J-J. - Tracking behavioral persistence and innovations during the Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. Shift in occupations between 700 ka and 450 ka at la Noira site (Centre, France). Journal of Human Evolution. Humans in transition special issue. Sous presse. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12520-020-01150-x

Blain, H.-A., Fagoaga, A., Ruiz-Sánchez, F.J., García-Medrano, P., Ollé, A., Jiménez-Arenas, J.M., 2021. Coping with arid environments: A critical threshold for human expansion in Europe at the Marine Isotope Stage 12/11 transition? The case of the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Human Evolution. 153, 102950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102950

De Lombera-Hermida, A., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., García-Medrano, P., Pedergnana, A., Terradillos-Bernal, M., López-Ortega, E., Bargalló, A., Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Saladié, P., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E., 2020. The dawn of the Middle Paleolithic in Atapuerca: the lithic assemblage of TD10.1 from Gran Dolina. Journal of Human Evolution. 145, 102812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102812

Garcia-Medrano, P., Despriée, J., Moncel M-H. - Innovations in Acheulean biface production at la Noira (Centre France): shift or drift between 700 and 450 ka in Western Europe? Nature Scientific Report. En révision.

Ravon, A-L., García-Medrano, P., Moncel, M-H., Ashton, N. - Acheulean variability in Western Europe: the case of Menez-Dregan I (Plouhinec, Finistère, France). Journal of Human Evolution. Humans in transition special issue. En révision.

García-Medrano, P., Moncel, M-H., Maldonado-Garrido, R., Ollé, A., Ashton, N. - The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale, Journal of Human Evolution. Humans in transition special issue. Soumis.

Bahain, J-J., Valladas, H., Falguères, C., Mercier, N., Joron, J-L., Froget, L., Masaoudi, H., Moigne, A-M., Combier, J.†, Moncel, M-H. - Reappraisal of the chronology of Orgnac III Lower-Middle Palaeolithic site (Ardèche. France), a regional key-sequence for the Middle Pleistocene of southern France, Journal of Human Evolution. Humans in transition special issue. En révision.

Moncel M-H., Bahain J-J., Antoine P., Landais A., Pereira A., Moigne A-M., Lebreton V., Combourieu-Nebout N., Voinchet P., Falguères C., Nomade S., Bazin L.  Le climat a-t-il eu un impact sur le peuplement de l’Europe de l'Ouest des SIM 17 à 11. Volume UISPP. Hommes et climats. F. Djindjian ed. Online- Colloque Climatic changes 22-24 novembre 2020. Université de Paris Saclay Ecole centrale Supélec, Orsay).

Organisation session : Climatic changes and human occupations/impacts during Pleistocene and Holocene -Changements climatiques et impacts sur les occupations humaines pendant le Pléistocène et l’Holocène. Org. F. Djindjian, M-H. Moncel, P. Depaepe, J-F. Pastre. Session 1. Moncel et al. Relations Hommes climat entre Nord et Sud en Europe de l’Ouest des MIS 15 au 11

M.F. Sanchez-Goni. Workshop INQUA PALCOM Multi Year Project on Past Glacial Terminations (T5-0 MYP), topical symposium on “Chronologies of Late Pleistocene Terminations” Online 17th to 19th of May.

Antoine, P., Bahain, J.-J., & Coutard, S. & Limondin-Lozouet, N. 2020. La séquence de Grâce-Autoroute (Somme, France) : une référence pour  l’enregistrement des variations climatiques quaternaires depuis 1 Ma à l’Ouest de l’Europe. Quaternaire 31(3), 205-230. https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.14273