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One of the main factors controlling the behavior of uranium (U) in water bodies is bottom water oxygenation, which enables the use of U isotopic ratios and concentration in oceanic sedimentary records as paleo-redox proxies [1]. Here, we investigated the mechanisms governing U accumulation in the sediments of Lake Nègre (Mediterranean Alps, South-East France) over the past 9200 years. These sediments display exceptional natural U concentrations (300–1500 µg.g-1), allowing the use of high-resolution X-Ray Fluorescence core-scanning for the measurement of U. Chemical proxies (Ti content, Zr/K and K/Ti ratios) indicate that erosional sedimentary inputs were controlled by Holocene climatic variations. After a period of low erosion during the Holocene Climatic Optimum, a major regime shift was recorded at 4.2 kyr BP when terrigenous fluxes increased until present with high sensitivity to centennial-scale climatic events. The temporal evolution of carbon to nitrogen (C/N) and bromine to organic carbon (Br/TOC) ratios of sedimentary organic matter (OM) indicate that it was mostly of terrigenous origin from the catchment soils until 2.4 kyr BP. From 2.4 kyr BP to present, lake primary production and soils equally contributed to sedimentary OM. The Fe/Mn core profile points out that the lake bottom water oxygenation remained constant over the past 9200 years. Uranium depositional conditions were also constant over this period as attested by the 238U/235U ratio (expressed as δ238U) core profile. However, U fluxes to the sediments varied substantially and were correlated to terrigenous OM fluxes from 7 kyr BP to present. This correlation highlights that U supply to the lake was controlled by U scavenging in the soils of the watershed followed by transport of U bound to detrital organic particles. The fluctuations of U sedimentary inputs thus appear to be independent of bottom water oxygenation and rather controlled by climate-driven variations in terrigenous OM production and erosion. This finding confirms that the use of U (and potentially other metals with high affinity to OM) concentrations alone should be used with caution for paleo-redox reconstructions.