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Fanny Bocquentin is a Research Fellow at the CNRS affiliated with the UMR 8068 lab (Technology and Ethnology of Prehistoric Worlds) located at Université Paris Nanterre. She specializes in archaeoanthropology, focusing on the Natufian and Neolithic periods of the Near East. She earned her doctorate in Biological Anthropology from the University of Bordeaux in 2003.
Her research explores:
- Funerary practices and ideologies in early sedentary societies
- Biological variability and identity in Levantine populations
- Impacts of sedentism, climate, and diet on human societies
- Multidisciplinary approaches to Pre-Pottery Neolithic transitions
Her publications (2020–2023) predominantly investigate mortuary archaeology, bioarchaeological methods, and socio-ecological adaptations during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, with recurring themes of death rituals, biological stress markers, and cultural evolution.
Awards:
- Prix biennal du meilleur article publié dans Food & History (2021)
She co-supervises doctoral candidates (Marie Anton, Niels Fourchet) and a Master’s student (Enora Antoine), and directs excavations at Eynan-Mallaha (Israel) and Beisamoun (Israel/Jordan). Her fieldwork is funded by ARPAMED, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CRFJ, and Irene Levi Sala Care Foundation.
