Yvette Taborin
{{Short description|French archaeologist (1929–2020)}}
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Yvette Taborin (16 May 1929 – 8 September 2020) was a French archaeologist and professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.{{cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/09/23/la-mort-de-l-archeologue-yvette-taborin_6053319_3382.html|title=La mort de l'archéologue Yvette Taborin|date=23 September 2020|work=Le Monde|language=fr}}
Biography
Taborin studied ethnology under André Leroi-Gourhan.{{cite web|url=http://www.prehistoirepassion.com/interview%20Yvette%20Taborin.htm|title=Interview de Mme Yvette Taborin|date=May 2008|work=prehistoirepassion.com|language=fr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306114455/http://www.prehistoirepassion.com/interview%20Yvette%20Taborin.htm|archive-date=6 March 2012}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://archeologie.culture.fr/etiolles/fr/auteur/yvette-taborin|title=Yvette Taborin|work=Musée Archéologie Nationale|language=fr}} She was one of the first people to take an interest in the archaeological excavation of shells, called archeomalacology.{{cite book |last=Bardot|first=A.|date=2010|title=Les coquillages en Gaule romaine, entre Méditerranée et Rhin. Approche socio-économique et socio-culturelle|language=fr|location=Bordeaux|publisher=Université de Bordeaux 3}}
Yvette Taborin died on 8 September 2020 at the age of 91.
Publications
- 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)
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