Jacques Jaubert

Jacques Jaubert (born 26 July 1957) is a French prehistorian and professor of Paleolithic archaeology at the University of Bordeaux.

He obtained his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in 2000 at University of Toulouse-Le Mirail with a thesis entitled Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Southwestern Europe and Northeastern Asia.

He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of international journals, including Archaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology of Eurasia.

The majority of Jaubert's studies have been centered around Middle Paleolithic and Neanderthals in southwestern Europe and western Asia.

He has been the director or co-director of a number of archaeological projects in France, including Quercy (Coudoulous, Espagnac) and Saintonge (Jonzac), Mongolia (Aimak of Hovd in Mongolian Altai), Iran (Mar Tarik cave and Qaleh Bozi Cave) and Armenia.