Danielle Stordeur

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Danielle Stordeur (* 1944 ) is a French prehistorian who has made a great contribution to researching the Neolithic of the Middle East . She works at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.

Life

Danielle Stordeur directed a number of excavations in Syria for decades . From 1978 to 1987 she was responsible for the excavations in El Kowm 2 Caracol, and from 1989 to 1993 in Qdeir, where nomadic cattle farmers could be identified. At the same time, El Kowm 1 and 2 lived on the neighboring tells. The latter formed a kind of settlement island with sufficient water supply in a steppe. In 1993 she dug in Cheikh Hassan and from 1995 to 1999 in Jerf el Ahmar on the banks of the central Euphrates , as rescue excavations had to be carried out there in view of the construction of dams. She conducted research on the earliest hunter-gatherer groups who developed and took over the Neolithic tillage and the production of food. She also looked at the relationship between hunters and gatherers on the one hand and early farmers on the other. In doing so, she was able to identify collective structures and investigate the transition from circular buildings to those with a rectangular floor plan (in the pre-ceramic Neolithic A , PPNA). In Jerf el Ahmar, a number of symbolic depictions of animals can be found. There the Neolithization for the time between 9500 and 8000 BC could be found. As well as a transition phase between PPNA and PPNB . It could also make connections between the Euphrates region and the Neolithic settlers of Cyprus probable. Until 2011 she was the head of the excavation in El Kowm- Mureybet (Syria) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is part of the editorial team of various specialist journals such as Syria and Neo-Lithics . In the National Museum Damascus she was responsible for furnishing three halls on her subject.

Works (selection)

  • Les aiguilles à chas au Paléolithique , Paris 1979 (needles with eye of a needle in Magdalénien and Solutréen ).
  • La main et l'outil. Manches et emmanchements préhistoriques, Table ronde CNRS, 1984 , Lyon 1984.
  • Outils et armes en os du gisement natoufien de Mallaha (Eynan, Israel) , Paris 1988.
  • Sédentaires et nomades au PPNB final dans le désert de Palmyre (Syrie) , in: Paléorient 19 (1993) 187-204.
  • (Ed.): El Kowm 2. Une île dans le désert. La fin du Néolithique précéramique dans la steppe syrienne , Paris 2000 ( review ).
  • Jerf el Ahmar et l'émergence du Néolithique au Proche-Orient , in Jean Guilaine (ed.): Premiers paysans du monde. Naissances des agricultures , Séminaire du Collège de France, Paris, 2000, pp. 33-60.
  • Avant la ville: l'apport des cultures néolithiques de Syrie , in: Jean-Claude David, Mohamed Al Dbiyat (eds.): La ville en Syrie et ses territoires: héritages et mutations, Table ronde, Damas, janvier 1999 , in: Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales 52 (2000) 31-52.
  • Symboles et imaginaire des premières cultures néolithiques du Proche-Orient (haute et moyenne vallée de l'Euphrate) , in Jean Guilaine (ed.): Arts et symboles du Néolithique à la Protohistoire, Hommage à J. Cauvin , Paris 2003, p. 15-37.
  • with Jean-Louis Huot (ed.): Hommage à H. de Contenson , special edition Syria , 2006.
  • Neolithic plastered skulls from Tell Aswad (Syria). A funerary tradition in the Near East , in: Nuria Sanz, Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen (Eds.): The Chinchorro culture. A comparative perspective, the archeology of the earliest human mummification , UNESCO, Paris 2014, pp. 177–196.
  • Le village de Jerf el Ahmar: Syrie, 9500-8700 av. J.-C .. L'architecture, miroir d'une société néolithique complexe , CNRS éditions, Paris 2015.
  • (Ed.): Jerf el Ahmar , 2 vol., In preparation

Web links

  • Presentation at Laboratoire Archéorient. Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien

Remarks

  1. ↑ Danielle Stordeur, Michel Brenet, Gérard the Aprahamian, Jean-Claude Roux: Les bâtiments communautaires de Jerf el Ahmar et Mureybet. Horizon PPNA. Syrie , in: Paléorient 26 (2000) 29-44 and Les bâtiments collectifs des premiers néolithiques de l'Euphrate. Création, standardization et mémoire des formes architecturales , in: Pascal Butterlin, Marc Lebeau, Jean-Yves Monchambert, Juan Luis Montero-Fenollos, Beatrice Muller (eds.): Les espaces syro-mésopotamiens. Dimensions de l'expérience humaine au Proche-Orient. Homage offert à Jean Margueron , Brepols, 2006, pp. 19–31.
  2. ↑ Daniel Helmer, Lionel GOURICHON, Danielle Stordeuer: A l'Aube de la animale domestication. Imaginaire et symbolisme animal dans les premières sociétés néolithiques du nord du Proche-Orient (colloque international HASRI Domestications animales, dimensions sociales et symboliques. Hommage à J. Cauvin , Lyon, November 2002), in: Anthropozoologica 39 (2004) 143–163 ( online , PDF).
  3. ↑ Danielle Stordeur, Frédéric Abbès: Du PPNA au PPNB: mise en lumière d'une phase de transition à Jerf el Ahmar (Syrie) , in: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 99 (2000) 563-595.
  4. ↑ Danielle Stordeur: De la vallée de l'Euphrate à Chypre? A la découverte d'indices de relations au Néolithique , in: Jean Guilaine, Alain Le Brun (ed.): Le Néolithique de Chypre (actes du colloque international de Nicosie, 17-19 may 2001) , Athens 2003, p. 353– 371.
  5. ↑ Danielle Stordeur, Frédéric Abbès : From the first villages to the first cities: a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Damascus (Syria) , in: Neo-Lithics 1 (2006) 43–47.
personal data
SURNAME Stordeur, Danielle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French prehistoric woman
DATE OF BIRTH 1944