Antony Borel Ph.D.

Teaching and advising

Duration of Teaching Activities (TA) is given without counting advising activities.
Full TA > 479h.

Assistant professor, UMR7194-CNRS and dept. of Prehistory, MNHN, Paris, France [Teaching Activities, without advising activities (TA)=15h]

2014...

  • Lecture
    - Introduction to use-wear and residue analysis, Master Quaternary and Prehistory (QP) (1 x 2h).
    - Experimentation set up step by step, application to use-wear analysis, Master QP (1 x 3h)
  • Lecture in other institutions
    - Introduction to use-wear and residue analysis. How to better understand stone tool use?, BA and MA, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (1 x 3h).
  • Seminar
    - Functional and behavioural approach to manipulation: apes and human, doctoral school ED227 (1 x 1h shared with Pouydebat E.).
  • Practical work
    - Tool use experimentation and use-wear observation on flint tools,, Master QP (1 x 3h x 2 groups).
  • Master 1 thesis supervisions:
    - Introduction to use-wear analysis: application to bamboo processing.. Sofiane Si-Ammour (Master QP).
    - Initiation to spatial analysis using Geographic Information System Application to the archaeological remains of Song Terus (Java, Indonesia). Sommay Singthong (Master QP) co-supervised with François Sémah.
  • Master 2 thesis supervisions:
    - Quartz segments and ostrich eggshell beads in Leopard Cave (Southern Africa): an experimental approach to set up a referential. Sofiane Si-Ammour (Master QP) co-supervised with David Pleurdeau and Gema Chacon Navarro.
    - Large tools from Southeast Asia: morpho-functional approach of samples from Cambodia and Indonesia. Anton Ferdianto (Master QP) co-supervised with Hubert Forestier and François Sémah.
  • PhD thesis committees:
    - Archaeo-stratigraphy of Laang Spean prehistoric site: contribution to the Cambodian prehistory. Heng Sophady, UMR7194-CNRS/MNHN (ED227-MNHN).
    - Interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of the primate’s hand: tool manipulation and new inferences of hominin fossil. Ameline Bardot, UMR7179-CNRS/MNHN (ED474-Paris Descartes).
  • Jury memberships:
    - Evaluation of the theses defended for the grade of Master in Quaternary and Prehistory of The National Museum of Natural History of Paris, France (8 theses).


Post-doctoral fellow of the Fyssen Foundation, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary [TA=5h]

April-May 2013

  • Lecture
    - Approaching past human behavior through use-wear and residues analysis. How to better understand stone tool use?, BA and MA (1 x 3h).
    - Introduction to geometric morphometrics and 3D scanning, BA and MA (1 x 2h)


Research associate, UMR7194-CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France [TA=22h]

2012-2013

  • Lecture
    - Approaching past human behavior through experimentation, use-wear and residues analysis., Master QP (1 x 2h in 2012 and 2013)
  • Practical work:
    - Introduction to use-wear observation on flint tools, Master QP (1 x 1h20 x 3 groups in 2012 and 2013).
    - Flint tool use experimentation, Master QP (1 x 2h30 x 2 groups in 2012 and 2013).


Scientific project manager, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France [TA>5h30]

Nov.-Dec. 2011

  • Master thesis co-supervision:
    - Use-wear analysis of quartz artefacts from the site of Payre (Ardèche, France). Sabine Martin (Master QP) co-supervised with Marie-Hélène Moncel and Andreu Ollé.

  • Lecture:
    - The significance of lithic assemblages in the complex Early Holocene behavioural records of Southeast Asian sites, International module Prehistory of Southeast Asia, Master QP (1 x 1h).

  • Practical work:
    - Flint knapping and stone tools drawing and analysis, Master QP (1 x 1h30 x 3 groups).


Invited teacher, Institute of Art and Archaeology, University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France [TA=2h]

Apr. 2011

  • Seminar:
    Material cultures and prehistoric societies, cycle Asia of the Master Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology:
    - Prehistory of Southeast Asia, state of the art and problematic (1 x 1h).
    - Forms and functions among the lithic industry of the beginning of the Holocene in Southeast Asia: new contribution to the understanding of the human behaviours. The example of the Keplek levels of Song Terus cave, Java, Indonesia (1 x 1h).


Teaching & research assistant, Université du Sud-Toulon-Var, La Garde, France [TA>190h]

2010-2011

  • Master 1 thesis co-supervisions:
    - Food acquisition strategies of a captive cathemeral lemur, Eulemur rubriventer. Mats Perrenoud (Master biology of organisms and populations, University of Bourgogne) co-supervised with Emmanuelle Pouydebat.
    - Food properties effects on handedness among squirrel monkeys (Saimiris sciureus) and mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx). Hélène Chotard (Master ethology, University Paris 13) co-supervised with Emmanuelle Pouydebat.

  • Lectures:
    - Introduction to anthropology, Bachelor 1 (3 x 1h30 x 2 groups).
    - Sport and professionalization, Bachelor 1 (1 x 1h30).
    - Body techniques, discussion around Marcel Mauss, Bachelor 3 (1 x 1h30).
    - Cult of body, from Human of fair to advertising body, Bachelor 3 (1 x 1h30).

  • Tutorial classes:
    - Methodology of university work, Bachelor 1 (3 x 1h30 x 4 groups).
    - Introduction to anthropology, Bachelor 1 (13 x 1h30 x 4 to 9 groups).
    - Body techniques, Bachelor 3 (1 x 1h30 x 4 groups).
    - Cult of body, Bachelor 3 (1 x 1h30 x 4 groups).
    - Sport and gender, Bachelor 3 (2 x 1h30 x 4 groups).


Graduate assistant, MNHN, Paris, France [TA>200h]

2007-2010

  • Lectures:
    - Techniques and subsistence in Southeast Asia at the Final Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene: a medley of behaviours, Master QP (1 x 2h in 2009 and 2010).

  • Seminar:
    - Towards a better understanding of the human behaviours of the early Holocene in Southeast Asia: shape study, experimentation and use-wear analysis, International module Prehistory of Southeast Asia, Master QP (1 x 1h in 2008).
    - Archaeology, on the trail of our ancestors proposed, under invitation of the Hungarian Institute of Paris, to non-French-speakers learning French language (1 x 2h30 in 2009).

  • Tutorial class:
    - Internships and mobility, Master QP (1 x 2h in 2008 and 2009).

  • Practical work:
    - Flint knapping and stone tools drawing and analysis (1 x 3h from 2007 to 2010).
    - Flint knapping and presentation of the mode 2 of stone technology, Master QP (1 x 4h x 2 groups from 2008 to 2010).
    - Introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS), Master QP (1 x 3h x 2 groups from 2008 to 2010).
    - Spear throwing with spear-thrower (atlatl), International Intensive Program “First Eurasian Settlements” (1 x 1h30 x 2 groups).

  • Internship supervisions:
    - Discussion and practical work about prehistoric stone industry with 2 to 4 groups of 1 to 10 pupils of secondary education per year (1 x 5h per group).

    • Forum administrator:
      - Administrator of the Prehistory section of the on-line forum of the MNHN.

    • Individual help for non-French speaking students of the Master QP:
      - Examination revision (several hours).
      - Help and correction of one master thesis of prehistory (several hours).


    Sportive and physical education trainee teacher, Lycée polyvalent de Haute Auvergne, Saint-Flour, France [1 month].

    2004

    • Classes of soccer, ultimate, athletics and volley-ball to pupils of secondary education, of professional learning certificate (BEP) and technological class.