My Research
My research is at the crossroad of several scientific fields and fully interdisciplinary in its essence as it aims to address modern ecosystems issues using subfossil data. Below are some examples of the works I have conducted so far, mostly in the insular Caribbean. I also have several similar ongoing projects focused on continental Southeast Asia in order to track the putative impact of past human populations on the biodiversity of this region between the end of the Pleistocene epoch and the present days.
My works include taxonomic and systematic approaches to describe now-extinct taxa represented by either fossil remains or historical specimens.
I am also interested in the description of the skeletal anatomy of modern taxa to help for their identification in the Holocene fossil record and also conducted some works on the ecology of modern squamate taxa.
In addition to my studies focused on modern and past fauna I also conduct works on human behaviors through the zooarchaeological analysis of the bone remains recovered from archaeological deposits. These approaches enable me to investigate the place of reptiles in the subsistence behaviors of past human population but also in their symbolic sphere.
Worked vertebrae of Boa snakes and Iguana remains presenting burning and cut marks from Lesser Antillean Pre-Columbian deposits.
At the intersection of these different approaches I have conducted works about the long term evolution of fauna in relation to past human activities. The synthesis of my works has led to a better understanding of the extinction mechanisms of the Guadeloupe Islands squamates. These results have been published in Science Advances in 2021.
The evolution of the squamate biodiversity of the Guadeloupe and their extinction patterns.