Eugénie Gauvrit Roux
Research engineer in lithic tracerology
Postdoc, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA.
Associate member, CREAAH UMR 6566 CNRS, Rennes, France.
GPR Human Past, Project µLITE, dir. M. Langlais, PACEA UMR 5199 CNRS, Bordeaux, France
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Research Interests
My research aims to define the means and technical innovations past hunter-gatherer societies used to inhabit cold environments at the end of the last Ice Age. This work is based on a comparative analysis of the techno-economic systems implemented in western Europe and around the Bering Strait. At the end of the last Ice Age, these were two major areas of microlithic innovation, where human occupation intensified, and technical concepts circulated over wide areas. I use a technological analysis of stone tools integrating both functional and productional data, as well as experimental developments to characterise how tools were made, used, and managed. This participates in identifying the technical traditions, subsistence strategies and socio-economic dynamics of prehistoric nomadic people living in these cold areas marked by strong seasonal contrasts.
Key-words: Cold environments, Late Paleolithic, Last Glacial Maximum, Late Glacial, Lithic industry, Techno-economic systems, Techniques, Economy, Functional technology, Productional technology, Use-wear analysis, Experimental archaeology, Steppe-tundra, Animal resources, Projectile technology, Hide processing, Subarctic environments, Europe, France, Beringia, Alaska, Japan, Siberia.
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
March 2025
Postdoc, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA – NSF grant Broken Mammoth, PI: B.A. Potter, J.E. Reuther.
Education
2019
PhD in Prehistory, Université Côte d’Azur, CEPAM UMR 7264 CNRS, Nice.
Professional Work Experience
2023-2024
Postdoc, ERC Quina World, Géosciences Rennes UMR 6118 / CREAAH UMR 6566 CNRS, Université de Rennes, France. PI: G. Guérin.
2020-2022
Postdoc, Fyssen Foundation, Zooscan IRL 2013 CNRS, Russia; University of Alaska, USA. Postponed to 2021-2023 (pandemic); program modified in 2022 (war).
2020
Mobility grant, Université Côte d’Azur, France / University of Alasa, USA.
2018-2025
Archaeologist in charge of lithic traceology. Rescue archeology and programmed research archeology, France.