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Michel Rasse
Researcher at University of Rouen
Publications - 57
Citations - 876
Michel Rasse is an academic researcher from University of Rouen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Middle Stone Age & Holocene. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 55 publications receiving 781 citations. Previous affiliations of Michel Rasse include University of Lyon & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali)
Eric Huysecom,Michel Rasse,Laurent Lespez,Katharina Neumann,Ahmed Fahmy,Aziz Ballouche,Sylvain Ozainne,Marino Maggetti,Chantal Tribolo,Sylvain Soriano +9 more
TL;DR: The first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara as discussed by the authors and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses.
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Human occupation in South America by 20,000 BC: the Toca da Tira Peia site, Piauí, Brazil
Christelle Lahaye,Marion Hernandez,Eric Boëda,Gisele Daltrini Felice,Niède Guidon,Sirlei Hoeltz,Antoine Lourdeau,Antoine Lourdeau,Marina Pagli,Anne-Marie Pessis,Michel Rasse,Sibeli Viana +11 more
TL;DR: The Toca da Tira Peia archaeological site as discussed by the authors has been used to date the first human beings in the American continent as early as 20,000 BC using luminescence techniques.
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Population dynamics and Paleoclimate over the past 3000 years in the Dogon Country, Mali
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the peopling of the Dogon Country (Mali) and surrounding regions over the past 3000 years, taking into account the influence of Sahelian paleoclimatic variations as well as archaeological, ethnoarchaeological, and historical data.
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Ounjougou (Mali): A history of holocene settlement at the southern edge of the Sahara
TL;DR: The area of Ounjougou consists of a series of gullies cut through Upper Pleistocene and Holocene formations on the Dogon Plateau in the Sahel at the south edge of the Sahara Desert as mentioned in this paper.
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High-resolution fluvial records of Holocene environmental changes in the Sahel: the Yamé River at Ounjougou (Mali, West Africa)
Laurent Lespez,Y. Le Drezen,Aline Garnier,Michel Rasse,Barbara Eichhorn,Sylvain Ozainne,Aziz Ballouche,Katharina Neumann,Eric Huysecom +8 more
TL;DR: The Yame river in the Bandiagara Plateau, Dogon Country, Mali, is characterised by extensive alluvial sedimentary records, particularly in the 1 km long Ounjougou reach where Holocene floodplain pockets are inset in the Pleistocene formations as mentioned in this paper.