Eric Boëda

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Eric Boëda (born November 14, 1953 in Courbevoie ) is Professor of Prehistoric Archeology at the Université Paris X - Nanterre . His focus was initially on the Levallois technique associated with the Neanderthals in the processing of stone tools, a research that he adapted to excavation sites in Syria.

Life

Born to Jean Boëda and Marie-Thèrése Brossat, he studied medicine and practiced as a doctor. In 1981 he completed his medical studies at the Université Bichat-Beaujon Paris VII. In 1986, he was in the subject Ethnology et Sociologie comparative with the choice of gravity history (préhistoire) in Nanterre with a Thèse entitled Approche you technologique concept Levallois et évaluation de son champ d'application: étude de trois gisement saaliens et weichseliens de la France septentrionale Ph.D. . In 1997 he completed his habilitation and was appointed to Nanterre. From 1987 he was digging in eastern Syria, soon especially at the Um el Tlel and El Meirah sites. In 1990 he married Pascale Binant, with whom he has two children.

"In the context of lithic analyzes, Boëda's research is of outstanding importance, as numerous technological approaches have been formulated that are often used and almost belong to the standard in some research traditions."

In 2005 he received the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • Le concept Levallois. Variability des méthodes (= Monograph du CRA. 9). CNRS, Paris 1994. ISBN 2-222-04772-2
  • with Jean-Michel Geneste, Christophe Griggo, Norbert Mercier, Sultan Muhesen, Jean-Louis Reyss, Ahmed Taha and Hélène Valladas: A Levallois Point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus): hafting, projectiles and Mousterian hunting weapons , in: Antiquity 73,280 (1999) 394-402, doi : 10.1017 / S0003598X00088335 .
  • Levallois. A volumetric reconstruction, methods, a technique. In: Harold L. Dibble , Ofer Bar-Yosef (Ed.): The Definition and Interpretation of Levallois Technology (= Monographs in World Archeology. 23). Prehistory Press, Madison 1995, pp. 41-68. ISBN 1-88109-412-X
  • with Christophe Griggo and Sandrine Noël-Soriano: Différents modes d'occupation du site d'Umm el Tlel au cours du Paléolithique moyen (El Kowm, Syrie centrale). In: Paléorient. 27.2 (2001) 13-28. doi: 10.3406 / paleo.2001.4729
  • with Marie-Agnès Courty, Nicolas Fedoroff, Christophe Griggo, Ian G. Hedley, Sultan Muhesen: Le site acheuléen d'El Meirah, Syrie. In: Olivier Aurenche, Marie Le Miere, Paul Sanlaville (eds.): From the River to the Sea. The Palaeolithic and the Neolithic on the Euphrates and in the Northern Levant. Studies in honor of Lorraine Copeland (= British Archaeological Reports. International Series. 1263), Archaeopress, Oxford 2004, pp. 165-201. ISBN 1-8417-1621-9

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Jens A. Frick, Klaus Herkert: Lithic Technology and Logic of Technicity , in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 23 (2014) 129–172, here: p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Boëda, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Courbevoie , France