Laure Fontana (Ph.D., 1998, University of Paris 1-Sorbonne) is a specialist in animal resources exploitation and she studies the societies of the Western European Upper Paleolithic, especially those that lived in the last cold environments of the Pleistocene and based their economic system on the exploitation of the Reindeer. As a CNRS Researcher, she has focused her research on the mobility of Paleolithic Reindeer and the economics of animal resources, in order to reconstruct the annual cycles of human groups and the environments of the Western end of the Mammoth steppe. She has edited two books (2009, 2012) and published various articles on these topics.