Jean-Marie Le Tensorer

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Jean-Marie Le Tensorer (born March 30, 1947 in Bordeaux ) is a French archaeologist. From 1981 he was professor at the Department of Prehistory at the University of Basel, founded in 1962 . He thus succeeded Elisabeth Schmid at the Laboratory for Prehistory, which she founded in 1953 . The successor to this laboratory was the Institute for Integrative Prehistoric and Scientific Archeology (IPNA) in 2003 . Le Tensorer's research focuses on Swiss, West Asian and southern French sites, especially with a view to the first people who left Africa and chronostratigraphy .

Life

Jean-Marie Le Tensorer received his PhD in Quaternary Geology from the University of Bordeaux in 1970. From 1975 to 1981 he was Professor of Geology at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers . He completed his habilitation in 1979, was Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown , Connecticut , from 1978, and was appointed to the University of Basel in 1981. From 1991 to 1993 he was dean there.

Le Tensorer is a member of a number of scientific organizations and advises magazines such as Paléorient or Gallia Préhistoire . Since 2006 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the communications of the Society for Prehistory and since 2013 of the scientific working group of UNESCO Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and Social Developments (HEADS).

In 1984 Le Tensorer received the Médaille de la Société Archéologique de Bordeaux , became Chevalier de l ' Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1992 , three years later Chevalier de l' Ordre national du Mérite and in 2002 the Legion of Honor .

Le Tensorer organized a number of exhibitions, including Syria - Cradle of Culture , Basel 1999–2000 and Out of Africa , Anthropological Museum Zurich 2009.

Publications (selection)

  • L'homme et son environnement pendant la glaciation du Würm dans l'Ouest de l'Europe , in: Approche écologique de l'homme fossile , part 2 (work of the INQUA sub-working group "Ecologie de l'homme fossile au Pléistocène supérieur"), 1977, pp. 92-170.
  • Les premiers hommes du désert syrien , Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Paris 1977.
  • Le Paléolithique de l'Agenais , CNRS, Paris 1981.
  • with Sultan Muhesen, Reto Jagher, Philippe Morel, Josette Renault-Miskovsky, Peter Schmid: Les premiers hommes du désert syrien - Fouille syrio-suisse à Nadaouiyeh Aïn Askar , Musée de l'Homme de Paris, Editions du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle , Paris 1997 (exhibition catalog).
  • Première découverte d'Homo erectus au Moyen-Orient (oasis d'El Kowm, Syrie) , La Science au Présent, Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris 1997.
  • Le Paléolithique en Suisse , Editions Jérôme Millon, Grenoble 1998.
  • with Sultan Muhesen, Reto Jagher: Paleolithic settlement dynamics in the El Kowm Basin (central Syria) , in: N. Conard et al .: Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age , Tübingen 2001, pp. 101–112.
  • Le Yabroudien et la transition du Paléolithique ancien au Paléolithique moyen en Syrie: l'exemple d'El Kowm , in: Homenaje a Jesus Altuna - San Sebastian , 2005/2006, pp. 71–82.
  • Les cultures acheuléennes et la question de l'émergence de la pensée symbolique chez Homo erectus à partir des données relatives à la forme symétrique et harmonique des bifaces , Palevol 5 (2006) 127–135. ( academia.edu )
  • Le Paléolithique ancien de Syrie et l'importance du Golan comme voie de passage lors de l'expansion des premiers hommes hors d'Afrique , in: Abdel Rahman A. (Ed.): The International Colloquium History and Antiquities of Al-Golan 2007 -2008 , Press of the Ministry of Culture, Damascus 2009, pp. 37-56. ( academia.edu )
  • L'Homme des cavernes , Musée dépatemental de Préhistoire de Solutré, 2010.
  • Hand axes , Kerns Verlag, Tübingen 2012.
  • Regional Perspective of early human populations in Syria: the case of El Kowm , UNESCO, 2015.
  • with Reto Jagher , Dorota Wojtczak: El Kowm Oasis (Homs) , Archaeopress, 2016.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ History of the subject "Prehistory" at the University of Basel , website of the University of Basel.
personal data
SURNAME Le Tensorer, Jean-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux