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] Taborin studied ethnology under André Leroi-Gourhan.

[2] She defended her thesis, titled Les Coquillages dans la parure paléolithique en France, in 1987.

[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.