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
Born16 May 1929
Died8 September 2020(2020-09-08) (aged 91)
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Archaeologist
Professor

Biography

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Taborin 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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "La mort de l'archéologue Yvette Taborin". Le Monde (in French). 23 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Interview de Mme Yvette Taborin". prehistoirepassion.com (in French). May 2008. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Yvette Taborin". Musée Archéologie Nationale (in French).
  4. ^ 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.