Yvette Taborin

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(2020-09-08) (aged 91)
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Archaeologist Professor

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

• 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)