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Michel Fontugne is affiliated with Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University in France. Their research spans several domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. The main subfields they contribute to include Archeology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

Their work often intersects topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Eurasian Exchange Networks.

Among their recent publications are:

  • U-series dating at Nerja cave reveal open system. Questioning the Neanderthal origin of Spanish rock art, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • RADIOCARBON DATING ON ECHOMICADAS, LSCE, GIF-SUR-YVETTE, FRANCE: NEW AND UPDATED CHEMICAL PROCEDURES, 2023, Radiocarbon
  • Back to the Iron Age Chronology in Southern Central Asia, 2021, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia
  • Du bon usage des données 14C, publication et archivage: règles, métadonnées et erreurs à éviter pour une publication rigoureuse [communication orale], 2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Christine Hatté
  • Edwige Pons-Branchu
  • François Thil
  • Hélène Valladas
  • Jose Luís Sanchidrián

The primary venues for their research publications are:

  • Journal of Archaeological Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • Radiocarbon
  • Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

The multidisciplinary nature of Michel Fontugne's work reflects an integration of archaeological methods with natural sciences, focusing particularly on chronological assessments and environmental contexts in ancient human studies and ecological research.

Best Publications

  • Marine Reservoir Corrections for the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

    John Southon;Michaele Kashgarian;Michel Fontugne;Bernard Metivier

  • Global variations of surface ocean productivity in low and mid latitudes: Influence on CO2 reservoirs of the deep ocean and atmosphere during the last 21,000 years

    Michael Sarnthein;Kyaw Winn;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Michael R. Fontugne

  • Holocene climatic changes in the Western Mediterranean, from south-east France to south-east Spain

    Guy Jalut;Augustin Esteban Amat;Louis Bonnet;Thierry Gauquelin

  • The tempo of Holocene climatic change in the eastern Mediterranean region: new high-resolution crater-lake sediment data from central Turkey:

    N. Roberts;J.M. Reed;M.J. Leng;C. Kuzucuoglu

  • Holocene circum-Mediterranean vegetation changes: Climate forcing and human impact

    Guy Jalut;Jean Jacques Dedoubat;Michel Fontugne;Thierry Otto

  • High-resolution record of the last Interglacial–glacial cycle in the Nussloch loess–palaeosol sequences, Upper Rhine Area, Germany

    Pierre Antoine;Denis Didier Rousseau;Denis Didier Rousseau;Ludwig Zöller;Andreas Lang

  • Evidence from nitrogen isotope ratios for enhanced productivity during formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels

    S. E. Calvert;B. Nielsen;M. R. Fontugne

  • Glacial-interglacial variability in denitrification in the World's Oceans: Causes and consequences

    Raja S. Ganeshram;Thomas F. Pedersen;Stephen E. Calvert;Gavin W. McNeill

  • Calcification rate influence on trace element concentrations in aragonitic bivalve shells: Evidences and mechanisms

    Matthieu Carré;Ilhem Bentaleb;Olivier Bruguier;Elmer Ordinola

  • Variations of the monsoon regime during the upper quaternary: Evidence from carbon isotopic record of organic matter in North Indian Ocean sediment cores

    Michel R. Fontugne;Jean-Claude Duplessy

  • Paleointensity of the geomagnetic field during the last 80,000 years

    Emmanuel Tric;Jean-Pierre Valet;Piotr Tucholka;Martine Paterne

  • δ13C variation in scallop shells: Increasing metabolic carbon contribution with body size?

    Anne Lorrain;Yves-Marie Paulet;Laurent Chauvaud;Robert B. Dunbar

  • Enhanced rainfall in the Mediterranean region during the last sapropel event

    Nejib Kallel;Martine Paterne;J.C. Duplessy;C. Vergnaud-Grazzini

  • Abrupt millennial climatic changes from Nussloch (Germany) Upper Weichselian eolian records during the Last Glaciation.

    Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine;Christine Hatté;Andreas Lang

  • Glacial to interglacial vegetation changes in the northern and southern Pyrénées: Deglaciation, vegetation cover and chronology

    G. Jalut;J.Monserrat Marti;M. Fontugne;G. Delibrias

  • Dynamics of particulate organic matter d15N and d13C during spring phytoplankton blooms in a macrotidal ecosystem (Bay of Seine, France)

    N Savoye;Alain Aminot;Paul Treguer;M Fontugne

  • Late Pleistocene Variability of the Carbon Isotopic Composition of Organic Matter in the Eastern Mediterranean: Monitor of Changes in Carbon Sources and Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

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  • Climatic and cultural changes in the west Congo Basin forests over the past 5000 years

    Richard Oslisly;Lee White;Ilham Bentaleb;Charly Favier

  • Long‐range transport of continentally‐derived particulate carbon in the marine atmosphere: evidence from stable carbon isotope studies

    Héléne Cachier;Patrick Buat-Ménard;Michel Fontugne;Roger Chesselet

  • The origin of particulate organic carbon in the marine atmosphere as indicated by its stable carbon isotopic composition

    R. Chesselet;M. Fontugne;P. Buat-Ménard;U. Ezat

  • Mediterranean pluvial periods and sapropel formation over the last 200 000 years

    N. Kallel;J.-C. Duplessy;L. Labeyrie;M. Fontugne

  • Source terms and source strengths of the carbonaceous aerosol in the tropics

    Hélène Cachier;Patrick Buat-Menard;Michel Fontugne;Jacques Rancher

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Hatté
Christine Hatté University of Paris-Saclay
Denis-Didier Rousseau
Denis-Didier Rousseau University of Montpellier
Pierre Antoine
Pierre Antoine Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Louis Reyss
Jean-Louis Reyss Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Paolo Antonio Pirazzoli
Paolo Antonio Pirazzoli Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Martine Paterne
Martine Paterne Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hélène Valladas
Hélène Valladas Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Maurice Arnold
Maurice Arnold Collège de France
Andreas Lang
Andreas Lang University of Salzburg
Ludwig Zöller
Ludwig Zöller University of Bayreuth

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