Marie-Pauline VIGNES
Career
Marie-Pauline Vignes began studying archaeology in 2013 and has completed two masters’ degrees in this field. The first, obtained in 2018, focused on the pre-Hispanic cultures of the Mexican Central Highland, and the second, obtained in 2021, involved the archaeozoological, taphonomical and spatial study of Neanderthal occupations at the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, MIS 3). After this master’s degree, she obtained a grant to complete the study of this assemblage. During her career, she has taken part in numerous excavations in France and abroad (Spain, Mexico), in contexts ranging from the Middle Palaeolithic to the beginning of our era. In 2022, she was also able to take part in a preventive excavation project in South-western France. Since the start of her PhD, in October 2022, she has been giving lectures to masters students in paleontology at the University of Lille.
PhD Project
Marie-Pauline’s thesis is part of the BigGame ANR project, which aims to better characterize the relationships between Neanderthal populations and large terrestrial fauna in Northern France during the Middle Palaeolithic. This study focuses on bone tools, mainly from the Biache-Saint-Vaast faunal assemblage (Pas-de-Calais, MIS 7) which includes more than 300 artefacts. Excavated in the 1970s during a short rescue campaign, this bone tool assemblage has not been systematically studied yet. The main issues concern the acquisition of raw material (taxonomic and morphological selection, etc.) and the use of these tools in a variety of everyday activities. A multi-disciplinary approach is implemented to obtain a global understanding of these artifacts, using palaeoproteomics analysis, classical archeozoological and taphonomical studies combined with use wear analysis and experimental approaches in partnership with various laboratories (Evolution-Ecologie-Paléontologie lab and Miniaturisation pour la Synthèse, l’Analyse et la Protéomique lab at the University of Lille, TraceoLab at the University of Liege, and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris).
mariepauline.vignes@univ-lille.fr
Address
Bureau 321, Bâtiment SN 5, Campus Cité scientifique, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
