Jean-Baptiste Fourvel

My research focuses on the recognition of subsistence behaviours (food acquisition and exploitation patterns) of human communities. Through the analysis of Quaternary (~2.5M-actual) bone assemblages from Europe and Africa, my work addresses the role of predation and competitive pressure between humans and carnivores (Felidae, Canidae, Hyenidae) and their fundamental roles in the evolution of the palaeoecological status of Hominins (progressively shifting from opportunistic prey and gatherer to predator).My work integrates a broad methodological corpus, covering the fields of taphonomy (recognition of agents of bone accumulation and modification), archaeozoology (subsistence modes of human communities), palaeontology (morphofunctional and palaeobiological analysis), actualism and neo-taphonomy (ecology of present-day species and definition of their impact on a bone stock, experimentation);My research fields include bone assemblages from various chronological phases: Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa (Cradle of Humankind, Unesco World Heritage Sites - AESOP+ mobility 2015), French Early, Middle and Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Europe (Poland - 2007) and Africa (South Africa- 2007 and since 2015; Kenya - 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021; Ethiopia - 2018; Djibouti, Namibia, Mozambique - 2019, 2022; Botswana - 2021, 2022).