Yvette Taborin (16 May 1929 – 8 September 2020) was a French archaeologist and professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.[1]
Yvette Taborin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 May 1929 |
| Died | 8 September 2020 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist Professor |
Biography
editTaborin studied ethnology under André Leroi-Gourhan.[2] She defended her thesis, titled Les Coquillages dans la parure paléolithique en France, in 1987. She then became a professor of archaeology at the University of Paris 1. She led excavations near Étiolles from 1972 to 2000.[3] She was one of the first people to take an interest in the archaeological excavation of shells, called archeomalacology.[4]
Yvette Taborin died on 8 September 2020 at the age of 91.
Publications
edit- Les Coquillages dans la parure paléolithique en France (1987)
- La parure en coquillage au Paléolithique (1993)
- Les sociétés de la préhistoire (1998)
- Langage sans parole : la parure aux temps préhistoriques (2004)
References
edit- ^ "La mort de l'archéologue Yvette Taborin". Le Monde (in French). 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Interview de Mme Yvette Taborin". prehistoirepassion.com (in French). May 2008. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.
- ^ "Yvette Taborin". Musée Archéologie Nationale (in French).
- ^ Bardot, A. (2010). Les coquillages en Gaule romaine, entre Méditerranée et Rhin. Approche socio-économique et socio-culturelle (in French). Bordeaux: Université de Bordeaux 3.