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Overview

Antoine Zazzo is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France. Their research spans multiple disciplines within social sciences and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to paleontology, anthropology, and archaeology. The primary focus of their work lies at the intersection of archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, and forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology.

Zazzo's publication record includes research across prominent journals and venues. Frequent venues for their work include Scientific Reports, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, Quaternary Science Reviews, Nature, and Nature Communications.

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers by Antoine Zazzo cover a range of topics from paleogenomics and prehistoric violence to ecological and dispersal studies of species related to human history. Notable recent publications include:

  • Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers (2023, Nature)
  • New insights on interpersonal violence in the Late Pleistocene based on the Nile valley cemetery of Jebel Sahaba (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Palaeoproteomics gives new insight into early southern African pastoralism (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • 9000 years of human lakeside adaptation in the Ethiopian Afar: Fisher-foragers and the first pastoralists in the Lake Abhe basin during the African Humid Period (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)

Collaborations are a recurrent element in Zazzo's research, with frequent co-authors including Olivier Tombret, François Thil, Sébastien Lepetz, Laura van der Sluis, and Sophie Cersoy. These partnerships reflect a multidisciplinary approach integrating various aspects of archaeological and environmental studies.

  • Olivier Tombret
  • François Thil
  • Sébastien Lepetz
  • Laura van der Sluis
  • Sophie Cersoy

The main fields of study associated with Zazzo's academic output are social sciences and earth and planetary sciences. Their subfields of expertise emphasize paleontology, anthropology, archaeology, ecology, and geography, planning and development. The dominant research topics include:

  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Best Publications

  • A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Hassane Taisso Mackaye

  • Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad

    Patrick Vignaud;Philippe Duringer;Hassane Taïsso Mackaye;Andossa Likius;Andossa Likius

  • Experimentally-controlled carbon and oxygen isotope exchange between bioapatites and water under inorganic and microbially-mediated conditions

    Antoine Zazzo;Christophe Lécuyer;Christophe Lécuyer;André Mariotti;André Mariotti

  • Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

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  • Diagenesis and the reconstruction of paleoenvironments: A method to restore original δ18O values of carbonate and phosphate from fossil tooth enamel

    Antoine Zazzo;Antoine Zazzo;Christophe Lécuyer;Christophe Lécuyer;Simon M.F. Sheppard;Patricia Grandjean

  • First wave of cultivators spread to Cyprus at least 10,600 y ago

    Jean-Denis Vigne;François Briois;Antoine Zazzo;George Willcox

  • Pre-Neolithic wild boar management and introduction to Cyprus more than 11,400 years ago

    Jean-Denis Vigne;Antoine Zazzo;Jean-François Saliège;François Poplin

  • Radiocarbon dating of biological apatites: A review

    A. Zazzo;J.-F. Saliège

  • High-resolution δ13C intratooth profiles in bovine enamel: Implications for mineralization pattern and isotopic attenuation

    Antoine Zazzo;Antoine Zazzo;Marie Balasse;William P. Patterson

  • The isotope record of short- and long-term dietary changes in sheep tooth enamel: Implications for quantitative reconstruction of paleodiets

    A. Zazzo;M. Balasse;B.H. Passey;A.P. Moloney

  • Herbivore paleodiet and paleoenvironmental changes in Chad during the Pliocene using stable isotope ratios of tooth enamel carbonate

    Antoine Zazzo;Hervé Bocherens;Michel Brunet;Alain Beauvilain

  • Sulphur isotopes in animal hair track distance to sea

    A. Zazzo;F. J. Monahan;A. P. Moloney;S. Green

  • Contrasting Cu, Fe, and Zn isotopic patterns in organs and body fluids of mice and sheep, with emphasis on cellular fractionation

    Vincent Balter;Aline Lamboux;Antoine Zazzo;Philippe Télouk

  • Rapid Quantification of Bone Collagen Content by ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy

    Matthieu Lebon;Ina Reiche;Xavier Gallet;Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet

  • Chad: discovery of a vertebrate fauna close to the Mio-Pliocene boundary

    Michel Brunet

  • Bone and enamel carbonate diagenesis: A radiocarbon prospective

    Antoine Zazzo

  • Intra-tooth isotope variations in late Miocene bovid enamel from Afghanistan: paleobiological, taphonomic, and climatic implications

    Antoine Zazzo;André Mariotti;Christophe Lécuyer;Emile Heintz

  • Diets of modern and late Miocene hippopotamids: Evidence from carbon isotope composition and micro-wear of tooth enamel

    Jean-Renaud Boisserie;Jean-Renaud Boisserie;Antoine Zazzo;Gildas Merceron;Gildas Merceron;Cécile Blondel

  • A refined sampling strategy for intra-tooth stable isotope analysis of mammalian enamel

    A. Zazzo;R. Bendrey;D. Vella;A.P. Moloney

  • The reconstruction of mammal individual history: refining high-resolution isotope record in bovine tooth dentine

    Antoine Zazzo;Antoine Zazzo;Marie Balasse;William P. Patterson

  • Biases in the analysis of stable isotope discrimination in food webs

    Karl Auerswald;Maximilian H. O. M. Wittmer;Antoine Zazzo;Rudi Schäufele

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers
Olaf Schmidt
Olaf Schmidt University College Dublin
André Mariotti
André Mariotti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frank J. Monahan
Frank J. Monahan University College Dublin
Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lécuyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg
Patrick Vignaud
Patrick Vignaud University of Poitiers
Dominic Vella
Dominic Vella University of Oxford
Vincent Balter
Vincent Balter École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
A.P. Moloney
A.P. Moloney Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

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