Dries CNUTS, Appreciating the little things. Possibilities and challenges of stone tool residue analysis in reconstructing Late Pleistocene technologies
Supervisor: V. Rots;
Jury: P. Noiret (ULiège), R. Fullagar (Univ. Wollongong, Australia), A. Ollé (IPHES, Spain), M. Soressi (Univ. Leiden, The Netherlands)
Defended on 30/6/2021

Sonja TOMASSO, What is new in the Aterian? A functional view on tool use, hafted stone tool technologies and assemblage variability at Ifri n’Ammar within the context of the Northwest African Middle Stone Age
Supervisor: V. Rots
Jury: P. Noiret (ULiège), R. Sala (IPHES, Spain), R. Nespoulet (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France); I. Groman-Yaroslavski (Univ. Haifa, Israel)
Defended on 25/6/2021

Justin COPPE, Sur les traces de l’armement préhistorique : Mise au point d’une méthode pour reconstruire les modes d’emmanchement et de propulsion des armatures lithiques par une approche expérimentale, mécanique et balistique
Supervisor: V. Rots
Jury: P. Noiret (ULiège), H. Plisson (CNRS, France), S. Soriano (CNRS, France), J. Whittaker (Grinnell College, USA)
Defended on 27/10/2020

Noora TAIPALE, Hafting as a flexible strategy: variability in stone tool use and hafting at three European Upper Palaeolithic sites
Supervisor: V. Rots
Jury: P. Noiret (ULiège), N. Conard (Univ.Tübingen, Germany), K. Knutsson (Univ. Uppsala, Sweden), M. De Bie (VUB, Belgium)
Defended on 3/7/2020

Ronè OBERHOLZER, Hafting, glues and tool design. Case studies from South Africa

Lola TYDGADT, Lateral projectile armatures in the Palaeolithic period: identification, chronology and variation

Marine MICHEL, Occupations de plein air au Paléolithique Supérieur : processus d’altération, traces d’utilisation et fonctions des sites

Quentin GOFFETTE, Evaluation de l’importance et des rôles des oiseaux dans les sociétés humaines par l’analyse des restes osseux archéologiques mis au jour en Belgique, de la préhistoire à l’époque moderne (co-supervisor: Dr. C. Lefèvre, MNHN, Paris)

Anika LOKKER, Chemical analysis of Palaeolithic glues, Supervisor: Prof. J.-F. Focant (ULiège)

Florine MARCHAND, L’industrie Lithique de Tell Arqa (Plaine du Akkar, Liban Nord) ; Supervisor : Prof. L. Colonna d’Istria (ULiège)

Dylan JONES, University of Liverpool, UK, Tool use and function on the margins of northern Europe, 400,000 years ago’ with a focus on Acheulean and Clactonian sites from East Anglia (UK); Supervisor: Prof. L. Barham; other co-supervisor: J. Gowlett.

Chris SCOTT, University of Liverpool, UK, Use-wear analysis on Acheulean bifaces from Kalambo Falls and Beaches Pit (UK); Supervisor: Prof. L. Barham; other co-supervisor: J. Gowlett.