West African Middle Stone Age Timeline using ESR dating of quartz

Project Information

WATIME

Grant agreement ID: 101107408

DOI

10.3030/101107408

Project closed

EC signature date 26 April 2023

Start date 1 October 2023

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 181 152,96

Coordinated by

CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION SOBRE LA EVOLUCION HUMANA
Spain

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

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Documents, reports (1)

Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation Plan

The plan describes the planned measures to maximize the impact of the project, including the dissemination and exploitation measures that are planned, and the target group(s) addressed. Regarding communication measures and public engagement strategy, the aim is to inform and reach out to society and show the activities performed, and the use and the benefits the project will have for citizens.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Extending the ESR and OSL dating comparison on coastal dune deposits from the Wilderness-Knysna area (South Africa)

Author(s): E. Ben Arous, M.D. Bateman, M. Duval
Published in: Quaternary Geochronology, Issue 83, 2024, ISSN 1871-1014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101580

ESR dating of optically-bleached quartz grains: Evaluating measurement repeatability and reproducibility

Author(s): M. Duval, V. Guilarte, M. Bartz, M.J. Alonso Escarza, E. Ben Arous, M. del Val, C. García Rodríguez
Published in: Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Issue 215, 2024, ISSN 0969-806X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RADPHYSCHEM.2023.111313

Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach

Author(s): E. Ben Arous, K. Niang, J.A. Blinkhorn, M. Del Val, A. Medialdea, C. Coussot, M.J. Alonso Escarza, M.D. Bateman, A. Churruca Clemente, A.F. Blackwood, J. Iglesias-Cibanal, C. Saíz, E.M.L. Scerri, M. Duval
Published in: Quaternary Environments and Humans, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2950-2365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.QEH.2024.100044

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago

Author(s): Eslem Ben Arous, James A. Blinkhorn, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, Charles D. N’zi, Mark D. Bateman, Mathieu Duval, Patrick Roberts, Robert Patalano, Alexander F. Blackwood, Khady Niang, Eugénie Affoua Kouamé, Edith Lebato, Emily Hallett, Jacopo N. Cerasoni, Erin Scott, Jana Ilgner, Maria Jesús Alonso Escarza, Francois Yodé Guédé, Eleanor M. L. Scerri
Published in: Nature, 2025, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-025-08613-Y

A Critical Inventory and Associated Chronology of the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa

Author(s): Solène Boisard, Eslem Ben Arous
Published in: Journal of Open Archaeology Data, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2049-1565
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.5334/JOAD.121

The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka

Author(s): Alice Leplongeon, Eslem Ben Arous, Isis Mesfin, Hubert Forestier, Xavier Gallet, Christophe Griggo, Simon Puaud, Anne-Marie Sémah, Agueda Vialou, David Pleurdeau, Antoine Lourdeau
Published in: Journal of World Prehistory, Issue 38, 2025, ISSN 0892-7537
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10963-025-09197-1/ARTICLE/10.1007/S10963-025-09197-1

Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia

Author(s): Eslem Ben Arous, Nabiha Aouadi, Lotfi Belhouchet, Héla Mekki, Kaïs Trabelsi, Mosbah Mabrouki, El Mabrouk Essid, Noômène Fehri, Qingfeng Shao, Christophe Falguères, Vincent Lebreton, Patrick Roberts, Robert Patalano
Published in: Antiquity, 2025, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2025.24

Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens

Author(s): Lucy Timbrell, James Clark, Gonzalo Linares-Matás, Solène Boisard, Eslem Ben Arous, James Blinkhorn, Matt Grove, Eleanor M. L. Scerri
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-95573-Y

Book chapters (1)

The Upper Pleistocene Archaeology of Northern Africa (Middle and Later Stone Age, from the Western Maghreb to the Nile Valley)

Author(s): E. Ben Arous, S. Boisard, A. Leplongeon
Published in: Encyclopaedia of Quaternary Science, 3rd Edition, 2025
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-99931-1.00241-5

Other (1)

Falémé: 12 ans des recherches archéologiques au Sénégal oriental

Author(s): A. Mayor, E. Huysecom, M. Ndiaye, M. Rasse, L. Lespez, A. Garnier, E. Ben Arous,. Pruvost, K. Douze, P. Lamotte, L. Y. Bonaventure Serge, C. Cervera, L. Champion, P. Chiquet, M. Truffa Giachet, J. Aymeric-Nsangou, N. Guindo, K. Sanogo, D. Glauser et al.
Published in: Geneva: ARCAN Laboratory, 2024, ISBN 978-2-8399-4301-7
Publisher: Geneva: ARCAN Laboratory