Other Publications
2019 Leplongeon, A., M. Goder-Goldberger, D. Pleurdeau. International workshop on human occupations in the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago. Evolutionary Anthropology Doi: 10.1002/evan.21756
2018 Leplongeon, A.,Goring-Morris, A.N.. Terminal Pleistocene lithic variability in the Western Negev (Israel): Is there any evidence for contacts with the Nile Valley? Journal of Lithic Studies. http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/2614
2017 A. Leplongeon, D. Pleurdeau, E. Hovers. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa. Journal of African Archaeology15 (2), 202–233. https://doi.org/10.1163/21915784-12340010
2017 A. Leplongeon. Technological variability in the Late Palaeolithic lithic industries of the Egyptian Nile Valley: the case of the Afian and Silsilian industries. PLOS ONE, e0188824 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188824.
2017 A. Leplongeon. Current approaches and new directions in lithic analysis: defining, identifying and interpreting variability. Evolutionary Anthropology26 (4), 145-148
2017 C. Tribolo, A. Asrat, J.J. Bahain, C. Chapon, E. Douville, C. Fragnol, M. Hernandez, E. Hovers, A. Leplongeon, L. Martin, D. Pleurdeau, O. Pearson, S. Puaud, Z. Assefa. Across the Gap: Geochronological and Sedimentological Analyses from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sequence of Goda Buticha, Southeastern Ethiopia. PLOS ONE, e0169418
2016 Lebrun, B., C. Tribolo, B. Chevrier, M. Rasse, L. Lespez, A. Leplongeon, I. Hajdas, A. Camara, N. Mercier and É. Huysecom. Establishing a West African chrono-cultural framework: First luminescence dating of sedimentary formations from the Faleme Valley, Eastern Senegal. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 7, 379-388.
2016 Chevrier, B., M. Rasse, L. Lespez, C. Tribolo, I. Hajdas, M. Guardiola Fígols, B. Lebrun,A. Leplongeon, A. Camara, and É. Huysecom. West African Palaeolithic History: New Archaeological and Chronostratigraphic Data from the Falémé Valley, Eastern Senegal. Quaternary International,408(part B), 33-52.
2016 Huysecom, É., Chevrier, B., Mayor, A., Pelmoine, T., Cantin, N., Chaix, L., Leplongeon, A., Lespez, L., Loukou, S., Rasse, M., Truffa Giachet, M., Bocoum, H., Camara, A., Hajdas, I., Lebrun, B., Tribolo, C.. Transitions et continuités dans la vallée de la Falémé (Sénégal) : résultats de la 18ème année de recherche du programme international “Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique” (SLSA Jahresarbericht 2015). Fondation Suisse-Liechtenstein pour les recherches archéologiques à l’étranger, Zürich, Vaduz pp. 103-160.
2014 A. Leplongeon. Microliths in the Middle and Later Stone Age: new data from Porc-Epic and Buticha caves, Ethiopia. Quaternary international, 343, 100-116.
2011 A. Leplongeon& D. Pleurdeau. The Upper Palaeolithic Lithic industry of Nazlet Khater 4 (Egypt): Implications for the Stone Age/Palaeolithic of Northeastern Africa. African Archaeological Review, 28, 213-236.
Projects
Individual fellowships
2019 – present FWO Senior postdoctoral fellow, KU Leuven, Leuven (Belgium)
The MOVADAPT Project: MOdern human technological Variability in Africa during the last 50,000 years: diffusions, transitions, aDAPtations
2018 – 2019 EURIAS Junior postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Bologna (Italia)
Project: Human-environment Interactions in the Nile Valley between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago in the context of modern human dispersals.
2017 – 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (France)
In the frame of the French National Research Agency project ‘Big Dry’
2015 – 2017 Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge (UK)
Principal investigator of the project PleisTechnoVar (grant no 655459):
Project: Technological variability during the Late Pleistocene in Eastern Africa: lithic assemblages as indirect witnesses of past population dynamics.
2014 Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Project: Back-to-Africa? Technical diversity at the end of the Pleistocene in the Nile Valley and the Levant.
2010-2013 Ph.D. fellow, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (France)
Title:The Middle to the Late Stone Age transition in East Africa (Ethiopia)
Under the direction of Dr Marie-Hélène Moncel and Dr David Pleurdeau
Collaborative projects
2018 – present Member of the research group ‘ComsAfrica’(PI’s: Dr M. Will and
Prof C. Tryon) which aims to facilitate comparisons of Middle
Stone Age artefacts in Africa
2018 – present Collaborator in the (H)Origin project(dir. Dr E. Spinapolice) –
Middle and Late Stone Age
Excavations of the sites of Gotera and Yabelo (Ethiopia)
2014 – present Member of the “Big Dry” project, coord.: Prof. François Bon
“Rupture and continuity in the late Pleistocene settlement of Africa:
Paleoanthropology, archaeology and palaeoenvironemnt compared
between the Rift and Nile Valleys within their continental context”,
http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/?Project=ANR-14-CE31-0023
2011 – present Archaeologist, South East Ethiopia Cave Survey Project, led by
Dr Z. Assefa and D. Pleurdeau – Middle Stone Age and Late Stone
Age
