Lucile Crete
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Biography

I am an archaeologist specialised in Prehistory, Biological Anthropology and Human Evolution. I currently work on east African palaeo-environments, on the PhD research project "Using fossil antelope teeth and remote sensing of contemporary African vegetation community types to reconstruct hominin habitats around the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5 – 1.6 Ma ago". I use several methods in this project, such as dental usewear analyses, stable isotopes and remote sensing.

Journal Articles

  • Hopley, P.J., Cerling, T.E., Crete, L., Werdelin, L., Mwebi, O., Manthi, F.K. and Leakey, L.N., 2023. Stable isotope analysis of carnivores from the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Evidence for temporally-mixed fossil assemblages. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL, 650, 12-27.

Theses

  • Crete, L., 2021. Dietary ecology of mixed-feeding antelopes in the Omo-Turkana basin during the Plio-Pleistocene: a tool to investigate hominin palaeo-environments. PhD Thesis. Bournemouth University, Faculty of Science and Technology.

Posters

  • Crete, L., 2017. A study of ancient antelopes’ diet to investigate past vegetation changes in the Omo-Turkana basin (3.5-1.6 Ma). In: Postgraduate Symposium of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA), at the Royal Holloway, London (UK).

Grants

  • Using fossil antelope teeth and remote sensing of contemporary African vegetation community types to reconstruct hominin habitats around the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5 – 1.6 Ma ago (Quaternary Research Association, 05 Mar 2019). Awarded
  • Using fossil antelope teeth and remote sensing of contemporary African vegetation community types to reconstruct hominin habitats around the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5 – 1.6 Ma ago (Palaeontological Association, 21 Jan 2019). Completed
  • Using fossil antelope teeth and remote sensing of contemporary African vegetation community types to reconstruct hominin habitats around the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5 – 1.6 Ma ago (Leakey Foundation, 31 Dec 2018). Awarded
  • Using fossil antelope teeth to reconstruct hominin habitats in the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5-1.6Ma ago (NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, 10 Dec 2018). Awarded
  • Using fossil antelope teeth and remote sensing of contemporary African vegetation community types to reconstruct hominin habitats around the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5 – 1.6 Ma ago (Quaternary Research Association, 02 Jul 2018). Completed
  • Using fossil antelope teeth and remote sensing of contemporary African vegetation community types to reconstruct hominin habitats around the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5 – 1.6 Ma ago (Association for Environmental Archaeology, 30 Apr 2018). Completed
  • Using fossil antelope teeth and remote sensing of contemporary African vegetation community types to reconstruct hominin habitats around the Omo-Turkana basin between 3.5 – 1.6 Ma ago (Prehistoric Society, 31 Mar 2018). Completed
  • Reconstructing past environmental contexts in East and South Africa between 3.5 and 0.8 million years ago (British Institute in Eastern Africa, 04 Aug 2017). Completed

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Escape room: an archaeological mystery (01 Jun 2018)
  • Bournemouth Community University. Outreach work with families and children with minor learning difficulties (4 - 10 years old). (28 Apr 2018)
  • Hamworthy Park Junior School. Outreach work for year 6 children. (01 Jan 2018-01 Jan 2019)
  • Beaminster School. Outreach work for year 4 children. (12 Oct 2017)

Conference Presentations

  • 6th Young Natural History Scientists’ meeting, Multiproxy study of mixed-feeding antelopes’ diet to investigate past vegetation changes in eastern Africa (3.5-1.6 Ma), 12 Mar 2019, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Paris, France

Qualifications

  • MSc in Biological Anthropology (Université de Bordeaux (France), 2012)
  • MSc in Early Prehistory (University of York, 2010)
  • BA (Hons) in History and Archaeology (Université Francois Rabelais, Tours (France), 2009)