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Dr. Anaïs Vignoles 
Research fellow
Bernhard-Feilchenfeld Str. 11
50969 Köln

Project Membership : ECOLITHIC
Phone: +49 162 2651412
E-Mail: anais.vignoles(at)uni-koeln(dot)de

ORCID: 0000-0001-5027-2037

Consultation hours

10:00–17:00

Current Projects

  • Current project : post-doctoral student in the ECOLITHIC project (dir. S.T.Hussain)
  • Co-PI of the Research Collective Project „What Gravettian in Nouvelle-Aquitaine?“ (dir. E.Cormarèche & A.Vignoles)

Scientific Focus

  • Human-environment relationships
  • Lithic technology
  • Gravettian
  • European Upper Palaeolithic
  • Eco-cultural niche modeling
Articles & Book Chapters
2025

Hromadová B., Nemergut A., Vignoles A., Moravcová Ábelová M., Vlačiky M., Klaric L. – A comprehensive view of the Late Gravettian site with shouldered points at Moravany-Podkovica (Western Slovakia). Accepted by Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology the 18th of November 2025

Vignoles A. (2025) – Reconciling traditional Prehistory and mathematical modelling to examine human– environment relations during the Upper Palaeolithic: concepts and methods for modelling eco-cultural niches, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 122, 1, 61-93. [https://hal.science/hal-05023274

2024

Vignoles A. (2024) – Exploring the Noaillian-Rayssian association in Périgord: archaeo-stratigraphic and typo-technolo-gical study of layers 2 and 3 of the Jambes deposit in Périgueux (Dordogne), Paléo, 34, 250-275[https://hal.science/hal-04867493] (in French)

Vignoles A., Caillo A., Banks W.E., Klaric L. (2024) – SIGMENT: A critical bibliographic database to estimate the geographic distribution of Middle and Recent Gravettian lithic archaeological units in France, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 121, 2, 151-186[https://hal.science/hal-04663152v1(in French)

Banks W.E., Vignoles A., Lacarrière J., Morala A., Klaric L. (2024) - A hierarchical Bayesian examination of the chronological relationship between the Noaillian and Rayssian phases of the French Middle Gravettian. Quaternary, 7, 26. [https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7020026

2022

Vignoles A. (2022a) – Francophone guide for ecological niche modeling. Biodiversity Informatics, 17, p. 67-95. [https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v17i.17593] (in French)

Vignoles A. (2022b) – The myth of the reference site: the gap between publication and reality. The example of the noaillian collection of Abri du Facteur in Tursac (Dordogne, France), in Orellana-González E., Spinelli Sanchez O., Balbin-Estanguet T., Sergues V., Taffin N., dir., Imagination et construction mentale. La fabrique du discours scientifique, Pessac, Un@ éditions, collection Schol@ 1, 2022, 17-32 [https://una-editions.fr/le-mythe-du-site-de-reference/] (in French)

Gibert C. et Vignoles A., Contoux C., Banks W.E., Otero O., Chavasseau O., Boisserie J.-R., Barboni D., Fluteau F., Guy F., Souron A., Ramstein G. (2022) – Suitable climatic conditions for Australopithecus from Central Sahel to eastern Africa during the Pliocene. Global and Planetary Change, 210, 103756. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103756]

2021

Vignoles A., Banks W. E., Klaric L., Kageyama M., Cobos M. E., Romero-Alvarez D. (2021) – Investigating relationships between technological variability and ecology in the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-28 ka cal. BP) in France. Quaternary Science Reviews, 253, p. 106766. [https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03385329v1

2019

Vignoles A., Baumann M., Banks W.E. et Klaric L. (2019) – The Gravettian at Fourneau du Diable site (Bourdeilles, Dordogne): chronocultural review of the lithic assemblages from the lower terrace, Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, 116, 3, p. 455-478. [https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02360675] (in French)

Poster
Code, Scripts & Datasets

Vignoles A., Caillo A., Banks W.E., Klaric L. (2024) - SIGMENT : Une base de données bibliographique critique pour estimer la répartition géographique des unités archéologiques lithiques du Gravettien moyen et récent en France. [doi : 10.34847/nkl.5acdbkg3]

Past Projects

„In quest for memories…“ (Université Paris Lumière post-doctoral project, 2023); „ClimDivE: The influence of Climate on the Gravettian cultural Diversity and Evolution“ (MSCA post-doctoral fellowship, 2024-2025)

Supervisions

Doctoral thesis: 2026-2028: co-supervision of a thesis in the framework of MSCA-DN PALPROX. Provisional title: “Evolution of ecological niches in rodents through time” (other supervisors: S. Montuire, A. Royer), Université de Bourgogne (UMR 6282 Biogéosciences) 

Master thesis: 2026: supervision of Malcom Delachy: “Environmental biases of the palaeontological record: challenges and perspectives for fossil species ecological niche modeling (co-supervisors: A. Souron, C. Gibert-Bret, M. E. Cobos), Université de Bordeaux  (Erasmus+ mobility at MESH Research Hub). 2025-2027: supervision of erinn tjorven-laget: “Eco-cultural niche dynamics at the end of the Palaeolithic in Belgium and its margins” (co-supervisor: V. Rots), Université de Liège. 2021: co-supervision of Amélie Challier: “The eco-symbolic niche: a tool for studying palaeolithic symbolic systems. Feasability study on the Saiga antelope” (supervisors: W.E. Banks, F. d’Errico), Université de Bordeaux 

Memberships
  • CAA-International (Computater Applications and quantitative methods in Archaeology) – ethics comitee officer, member
  • CAA-FR – National chapter of CAA in France – Vice-speaker (2024-2025), member
  • AFEQ (Association Française pour l’Etude du Quaternaire) – member
  • SPF (Société préhistorique française) – member