Yvette Taborin Explained

Yvette Taborin
Birth Date:16 May 1929
Nationality:French
Occupation:Archaeologist
Professor

Yvette Taborin (16 May 1929 – 8 September 2020) was a French archaeologist and professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.[1]

Biography

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: La mort de l'archéologue Yvette Taborin. 23 September 2020. Le Monde. fr.
  2. Web site: Interview de Mme Yvette Taborin. May 2008. prehistoirepassion.com. fr. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120306114455/http://www.prehistoirepassion.com/interview%20Yvette%20Taborin.htm. 6 March 2012.
  3. Web site: Yvette Taborin. Musée Archéologie Nationale. fr.
  4. Book: Bardot, A.. 2010. Les coquillages en Gaule romaine, entre Méditerranée et Rhin. Approche socio-économique et socio-culturelle. fr. Bordeaux. Université de Bordeaux 3.