Frédéric Abbès is a French archaeologist working on postdoctoral research, specialising in the stone or lithic industry of the Near East and Mediterranean.[1] He has worked on important archaeological sites such as Tell Aswad and El Kowm.[2]
Frédéric Abbès | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, Research Engineer |
| Employer | CNRS |
| Known for | Work on Tell Aswad and El Kowm |
| Title | Council member of the Archéorient laboratory |
Positions held
edit- Research Engineer at CNRS.[3]
- 2010 - Due to take over Directorship of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs permanent mission to El Kowm-Mureybet (Syria).
- Council member of the Archéorient laboratory of the Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen, Lyon.[4]
- Operations Director of the Bal'a project called "Arid environment occupation during the Neolithic" (Syria).
Current Projects
edit- Studies of the Neolithic site of Qdeir near El Kowm, Syria.
- Studies of the lithic industries at Jerf el Ahmar.
- Studies of the lithic industries at Tell Aswad.
- Studies of the Neolithic site of Kovačevo, Bulgaria.
Fieldwork
edit- Excavations at Qdeir (Syria)
- Initial survey and excavations at Bal'a and the mountain regions of Palmyra.
- Executive Assistant to Danielle Stordeur at Tell Aswad. Fieldwork has currently stopped at Tell Aswad due to cuts in funding and the current political situation. Frédéric is currently involved in the critically important work of publishing the latest discoveries from this site, where domesticated Emmer wheat was first discovered at c.a. 8800 BCE, likely from a yet undiscovered inter-montane site in the Anti-Lebanon that caused the PPNB "explosion" of human culture in this area.
Selected bibliography
edit- Abbes, Frederic., "Méthodes d’approche de la variabilité du débitage laminaire. Application à des armatures perçantes de Cheikh Hassan (Syrie, VIIIème millénaire B.C.)", Cahiers de l’Euphrate 7, p. 119-150, 1993.
- Abbes, Frederic., "Techniques de débitage et gestion du silex sur le Moyen Euphrate (Syrie) au PPNA final et au PPNB ancien", in H. G. Gebel et S.K. Kozlowski (éds), Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent, Proceedings of the First Workshop on PPN Lithic Industries, Berlin 1993, Studies in Early Near-Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment 1, Berlin, ex. oriente, p. 299-312, 1994.
- Abbes, Frederic., "Réflexions concernant les nucléus bipolaires et naviformes du Proche-Orient Néolithique", Cahiers de l’Euphrate 8, p. 139-150, 1998.
- Abbes, Frederic., N. BALKAN-ALTI, D. Binder, M.-C. Cauvin,. " Étude technologique préliminaire de l’industrie lithique d’Asikli Höyük", Tüba-Ar II, p. 117-137, 1999.
- Abbes, Frederic., M.-C. Cauvin, B. GRATUZE, BELLOT-GURLET L., C. Bressy and POUPEAU G., "Nouvelles recherches sur l’obsidienne de Cheikh Hassan (Vallée de l’Euphrate, Syrie) au Néolithique : PPNA et PPNB ancien", Syria 78, p. 5-17, 2001
- Abbes, Frederic., DERAPRAHAMIAN G., "Pression et Percussion : Identification des stigmates sur des nucléus naviformes (Syrie)", in L. Bourguignon et I. Ortega (éds), Préhistoire et approche expérimentale, Editions M. Mergoal, (Série Préhistoire 5), Montagnac, p. 195-205, 2002.
- Abbes, Frederic., Étude des industries lithiques du néolithique précéramique de Syrie du Xème au VIIIème millénaire B.P., BAR-Tempus reparatum, Maison de l’Orient, 2002.
- Stordeur D., Abbes, Frederic., "Du PPNA au PPNB : mise en lumière d’une phase de transition à Jerf el Ahmar (Syrie)", Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, 99/3, p 563–595, 2002.
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ France Diplomatie - La mission archéologique « El Kowm-Mureybet », Syrie Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Pascal Mongne; France. Ministère des affaires étrangères (2005). Archéologies: vingt ans de recherches françaises dans le monde. Maisonneuve & Larose. pp. 451–. ISBN 978-2-7068-1886-8. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ "Archorient Profile of Frederic Abbes". Archived from the original on 2011-09-04. Retrieved 2011-03-19.
- ^ La Tribologie, February 2004
