Cyril MONTOYA

Research engineer at the Ministry of Culture, Regional Department of Archeology of the DRAC, Aix-en-Provence

At LAMPEA since 1998

Contact: cyril.montoya@culture.gouv.fr

Research Themes

 Studies of the human societies of the Upper Palaeolithic. 
 Analyzes of the human groups of the Last Maximum Glacial - Geographical area: Paris Basin (Chézy sur Marne, 02), South-East of France. 
 Epigravetian societies (about 20 000-10 000 BP not cal.): Technical systems, seriation. My work focuses mainly on a characterization of epigravettian human societies, from the Rhone Valley to the Caucasus, especially from the study of lithic productions. The objective is to reconstruct a seriation of this "culture" of the European Upper Palaeolithic on the basis of systemic analyzes. Geographical area: Southeast of France, Northern Italy, Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia).

Member of P2 Program Unit

Participation National / International Projects

 Mission MAE Caucasus (Director C. Chataignier)

Ongoing Liability

 Co-organizer of the 28th Prehistoric Congress (Amiens, June 2016) 
 Member of the Board of the French Prehistoric Society

Field Activities

 Head of research excavation Chézy sur Marne (02) (2011-2014) 
 responsible for the excavation Kalavan 1 (Armenia) (2008-2009) 
 responsible for the protective search of Vaugreniers (Le Muy, 83) (2006)

Recent publications

Refereed Journals

 (1984) The Altitudinal Mobility of Wild Sheep at the Epigravettian site of Kalavan 1 (Lesser Caucasus, Armenia): evidence from a sequential Isotopic analysis in tooth enamel, Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 97, p. 27-36 
 Samaan, M., M. Pierrot Deseilligny, Heno R., C. Montoya, RASSAT S. (2014) close-up photogrammetry for modeling 4d an archaeological structure. The example of a paleolithic fireplace in Chézy sur Marne (Aisne, France), Revue Française de Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 207, p.59-70. 
 Montoya C., Guendon J.-L., Boudias J.-B., Bouquet L., De Stefani M., Fabre M., Laroche M., Lopinet P., Portalier N., Rillardon M. , The Paleolithic site of the Vaugreniers (Le Muy, Var): a new epigravettian facies in the south-east of France ?. Quaternary, vol. 25, 2 "Quaternary landscapes and palaeoenvironments from Provence to the Western Alps: AFEQ excursion, June 2011 / Vincent Ollivier Ed.", P. 127-145. 
 Montoya C., Balasescu A., Joannin S., Liagre J., Nahapetyan S., Ollivier V., Colonge D., Gasparyan B., Chataigner C., (2013) The Upper Paleolithic site of Kalavan 1 (Armenia) An Epigravettian settlement in the Lesser Caucasus, Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 65, p. 621-640

Proceedings of the symposium

 Fontana F., Guerreschi A., Bertola S., Cremona M.-G., Cavulli F., Falceri L., Gajardo A., Montoya C., Ndiaye M., Visentin D. (2015) I livelli più antichi della Serie epigravettiana "interna" di Riparo Tagliente: sfruttamento delle risorse litiche e sistemi tecnici, G. Leonardi and V. Tine (Dir.), Preistoria e Protostoria, Preistoria e Protostoria del Veneto, Firenze, p. 43-52. 
 Gasparyan B., Kandel AW, Montoya C. (2014) - Living the high life: The Upper Paleolithic settlement of the armenian highlands, in Stone Age of Armenia. A Guide to the Stone Age Archeology in the Republic of Armenia ", B. Gasparyan and M. Arimura (Eds), Center for Cultural Resource Studies, Kanazawa University, Japan, p. 107-131 
 Horen H., Buridant J., Gallet-Moron E., B. Brewer, T. Feiss, Heraude M., Rassat S., C. Montoya, Durban-Col V. (2014), Relationship between structures Archaeological findings identified on a LIDAR survey and the soil typology of the Compiègne forest massif (Northern France), in Proceedings of the Rencontres Internationales de Liessies, C. Beck, F. Guizard, J. Heude (Dir), Revue du Nord , No. 23, p. 85-94 
 Chataigner, C., B. Gasparyan, C. Montoya, Mr. Arimura, V. Melikyan, J. Liagre, A. Ghukasyan, Colonge D., C. Fourloubey, D. Arakelyan, L. Astruc, S. Nahapetyan, R. Hovsepyan, A. Balasescu, C. Tome, V. Radu, (2011), From the Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic in Northwestern Armenia: preliminary results, Yerevan Institute of Archeology and Ethnography.