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Hélène Valladas

Hélène Valladas

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
France

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

Archaeology
Paleontology
Pleistocene

Hélène Valladas mainly investigates Archaeology, Cave, Paleontology, Mousterian and Neanderthal. Archaeology is closely attributed to Period in her work. The various areas that Hélène Valladas examines in her Cave study include Homo sapiens, Radiocarbon dating, Absolute dating and Chronology.

She has included themes like Upper Paleolithic and Hominidae in her Paleontology study. Her Mousterian research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Stage, Hafting, Mineralogy, Ancient history and Thermoluminescence. Her research in Middle Paleolithic intersects with topics in Stone Age and Lower Paleolithic.

Her most cited work include:

Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa. (598 citations)
Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas (353 citations)
Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in Israel (199 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Hélène Valladas spends much of her time researching Archaeology, Cave, Paleontology, Radiocarbon dating and Chronology. All of her Archaeology and Neanderthal, Thermoluminescence dating, Pleistocene, Prehistory and Mousterian investigations are sub-components of the entire Archaeology study. Hélène Valladas studied Cave and Rock art that intersect with Painting.

Her work on Middle Paleolithic, Period, Absolute dating and Holocene as part of general Paleontology research is frequently linked to Context, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science. Her research investigates the connection between Radiocarbon dating and topics such as Aurignacian that intersect with issues in Humanities. The study incorporates disciplines such as Magdalenian, Series and Radiometric dating in addition to Chronology.

She most often published in these fields:

Archaeology (51.01%)
Cave (35.57%)
Paleontology (24.16%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2011-2021)?

Archaeology (51.01%)
Cave (35.57%)
Radiocarbon dating (22.82%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Hélène Valladas mostly deals with Archaeology, Cave, Radiocarbon dating, Paleontology and Chronology. Her study in the fields of Neanderthal, Aurignacian and Excavation under the domain of Archaeology overlaps with other disciplines such as Context. Her studies in Cave integrate themes in fields like Lithic technology and Quaternary.

Her Radiocarbon dating study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Prehistory, Prehistoric art, Upper Paleolithic and Calcite. Her Paleontology research includes elements of Mousterian, Magdalenian and Cave painting. Hélène Valladas combines subjects such as Series and Pleistocene with her study of Chronology.

Between 2011 and 2021, her most popular works were:

The earliest modern humans outside Africa (173 citations)
New datings of Amudian layers at Qesem Cave (Israel): results of TL applied to burnt flints and ESR/U-series to teeth (68 citations)
A new date for the neanderthals from El Sidrón cave (Asturias, Northern Spain) (64 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

Archaeology
Paleontology
Pleistocene

Her scientific interests lie mostly in Archaeology, Cave, Radiocarbon dating, Paleontology and Homo sapiens. Her work deals with themes such as Painting, Series and Ancient history, which intersect with Archaeology. Many of her studies involve connections with topics such as Thermoluminescence dating and Radiocarbon dating.

Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Human evolution and Neanderthal. Her Homo sapiens research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Evolutionary biology, Genealogy, Dentition and Hominidae. Hélène Valladas works mostly in the field of Middle Paleolithic, limiting it down to topics relating to Lower Paleolithic and, in certain cases, Lithic technology and Mousterian.

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Best Publications

Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.

Christopher S. Henshilwood;Francesco d'Errico;Royden Yates;Zenobia Jacobs.
Science (2002)

1178 Citations

Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas

A. C. Roosevelt;M. Lima da Costa;C. Lopes Machado;M. Michab.
Science (1996)

653 Citations

The earliest modern humans outside Africa

Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Gerhard W. Weber;Rolf Quam;Rolf Quam;Mathieu Duval.
Science (2018)

335 Citations

Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in Israel

H. Valladas;J. L. Joron;G. Valladas;B. Arensburg.
Nature (1987)

328 Citations

ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Qafzeh in Israel

H.P. Schwarcz;R. Grün;B. Vandermeersch;O. Bar-Yosef.
Journal of Human Evolution (1988)

305 Citations

Bitumen as a hafting material on Middle Palaeolithic artefacts

Eric Boëda;Jacques Connan;Daniel Dessort;Sultan Muhesen.
Nature (1996)

298 Citations

A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus): hafting, projectiles and Mousterian hunting weapons

Éric Boëda;Jean Michel Geneste;Christophe Griggo;Norbert Mercier.
Antiquity (1999)

253 Citations

TL Dates of Burnt Flints from Jelinek's Excavations at Tabun and their Implications

N. Mercier;H. Valladas;G. Valladas;J.-L. Reyss.
Journal of Archaeological Science (1995)

236 Citations

Thermoluminescence Date for the Mousterian Burial Site of Es-Skhul, Mt. Carmel

N. Mercier;H. Valladas;O. Bar-Yosef;B. Vandermeersch.
Journal of Archaeological Science (1993)

227 Citations

Reassessment of TL age estimates of burnt flints from the Paleolithic site of Tabun Cave, Israel.

Norbert Mercier;Hélène Valladas.
Journal of Human Evolution (2003)

206 Citations

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