
PHD THESES
Defended PhD theses at University of Liège
2021
Marine MICHEL, Entre altération et fonction. Impact des processus post-dépositionnels sur la conservation et la reconnaissance des traces d’utilisation des outils lithiques. Vers une meilleure compréhension fonctionnelle des sites gravettiens de l’ouest de l’Europe
Supervisor: V. Rots;
Jury: P. Noiret (ULiège), P. Bodu (CNRS, Paris), J. Marreiros (Monrepos), A. Tomasso (CNRS, Nice)
Defended on 29/6/2022Dries 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 30/6/2021Sonja 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
2020
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 27/10/2020Noora 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
On-going PhD theses
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
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)
On-going PhD theses in co-supervision
At University of Liège
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)
Abroad
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.