Kim Genuite
Research Interests
I am a researcher in geomorphology and geoarchaeology. I am working on the relationships between landscape organisation and human evolution. I try to reconstruct the landscape evolution in and around the archaeological sites by the use of geomorphology, 3D mapping (lasergrammetry, photogrammetry and geomorphological mapping), and chronological constraints (morphostratigraphy, burial and exposure dating methods such as quartz ESR, OSL, cosmogenic nuclides).
My approach covers the full extent of the human evolution, with a specific focus on the Palaeolithic in karstic environments (cave systems). It aims to reconstruct past interactions between human groups and their physical environment. Most of my study objects are located in cave systems and rock shelters that contain rock art and traces of organization of the underground space by past human groups (for instance: Chauvet cave, Ardèche Valley; Borologa shelters, Australia; Bruniquel cave, Aveyron Valley; Cussac cave, Dordogne Valley).
Understanding the space organization and its evolution during the passage of past human groups can provide new constrains to understand the human behaviors on each site (preservation, palaeo-architecture, rock art, type of occupation…), but also the relationships between occupied places at the regional scale (proximity of site complexes and highly visible landscape features), and the sense of place of Middle and Late Palaeolithic groups.
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
February 2022
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Prehistoric Ichnology and Understanding of the Underground Space, PACEA - GPR Human Past. Supervisors: Jacques Jaubert, Sophie Verheyden, Nathalie Fourment
Education
2020-2021
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Normandie University (IDEES/CNRS)
2016-2019
PhD in Geomorphology - Geoarchaaeology - Savoie-Mont Blanc University, EDYTEM/CNRS
2013-2015
Master’s degree in Geography - Savoie Mont Blanc University
2010-2013
Licence degree in Modern Litterature, & Arts – Grenoble Alpes University
Professional Work Experience
Field Laboratory
2016-2019
EDYTEM/CNRS – Geomorphology and 3D mapping (Chauvet cave, Ardèche; Borologa shelters, Australia, Roc-aux-Sorciers, Vienne)
2016-2021
HNHP/ CNRS – ESR geochronology
2020
IDEES – Geoarchaeology and sediment characterisation
Archaeological Fieldwork Experience
- Borologa rockshelters (Kimberley, Australia) (July 2017), director: Bruno David (Monash indigenous Studies Centre)
- Chauvet Cave (France) (June-August 2016), director: Jean-Jacques Delannoy (EDYTEM)
- Ardèche canyon (France) (3 full years, continuously, 2017-2019), directors: Jean-Jacques Delannoy & Stéphane Jaillet (EDYTEM)
- Roc-aux-Sorciers (Vienne, France) (July 2018), director: Geneviève Pinçon (CNP – French Ministry of Culture)
- Seine lower valley (Normandy, France) (October-November 2020), directors: Damase Mouralis, Carole Nehme & Dominique Todisco (IDEES)
- Baume Traoucade (Ardèche, France) (October 2021), directors : Evelyne Cregut, Laurent Bruxelles (INRAP)
Technical Skills
Geomorphology (fluvial deposits, karstogenesis (cave systems), karst-river relationships). Topography (3D survey, 3D mapping, landscape evolution reconstruction, space organisation by past human groups). Absolute chronology (Quartz ESR, U-series and burial 26Al/10Be, Bayesian hierarchical modelling). Mapping human imprint in the underground space (space organisation, traces, rock art, palaeo-architecture). Geoarchaeology and Sedimentology (cross section of sediments, source-to-sink approach, drawing). Geophysics (ERT tomography of limestone and fluvial deposits). Geochemistery (XRF, XRD).
