Frédéric Abbès
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Frédéric Abbès is a French archaeologist working on
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, specialising in the stone or lithic industry of the Near East and
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. He has worked on important archaeological sites such as Tell Aswad and
El Kowm El Kowm or Al Kawm is a circular, gap in the Syrian mountains that houses a series of archaeological sites. The El Kowm oasis is located northeast of Palmyra in Syria, near Al-Sukhnah. It shows some of the longest and most important cultural s ...
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Positions held

* Research Engineer at CNRS. * 2010 - Due to take over Directorship of the
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permanent mission to
El Kowm El Kowm or Al Kawm is a circular, gap in the Syrian mountains that houses a series of archaeological sites. The El Kowm oasis is located northeast of Palmyra in Syria, near Al-Sukhnah. It shows some of the longest and most important cultural s ...
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Mureybet Mureybet ( ar, مريبط, muribit, lit=covered) is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located on the west bank of the Euphrates in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria. The site was excavated between 1964 and 1974 and has since disappeared und ...
( Syria). * Council member of the Archéorient laboratory of the Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen,
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.La Tribologie, February 2004
/ref> * Operations Director of the Bal'a project called "Arid environment occupation during the Neolithic" (Syria).


Current Projects

* Studies of the Neolithic site of Qdeir near
El Kowm El Kowm or Al Kawm is a circular, gap in the Syrian mountains that houses a series of archaeological sites. The El Kowm oasis is located northeast of Palmyra in Syria, near Al-Sukhnah. It shows some of the longest and most important cultural s ...
, Syria. * Studies of the lithic industries at
Jerf el Ahmar Jerf el Ahmar ( ar, الجرف الأحمر) is a Neolithic site in northern Syria, which dated back between 9,200 and 8,700 BC. History Jerf el Ahmar contained a sequence of round and rectangular buildings, which is currently flooded by the La ...
. * Studies of the lithic industries at Tell Aswad. * Studies of the Neolithic site of Kovačevo,
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Fieldwork

* Excavations at Qdeir (Syria) * Initial survey and excavations at Bal'a and the mountain regions of
Palmyra Palmyra (; Palmyrene: () ''Tadmor''; ar, تَدْمُر ''Tadmur'') is an ancient city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early secon ...
. * Executive Assistant to
Danielle Stordeur Danielle Stordeur is a French Archaeologist and Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS. She is also Director of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs permanent mission to El Kowm-Mureybet ( Syria), replacing Jacques Cauvin in 1993 until 2010, whe ...
at Tell Aswad. Fieldwork has currently stopped at Tell Aswad due to cuts in funding and the current political situation. Frédéric is currently involved in the critically important work of publishing the latest discoveries from this site, where domesticated
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wheat was first discovered at c.a. 8800 BCE, likely from a yet undiscovered inter-montane site in the Anti-Lebanon that caused the
PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC. It was typed by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon duri ...
"explosion" of human culture in this area.


Selected bibliography

* Abbes, Frederic., "Méthodes d’approche de la variabilité du débitage laminaire. Application à des armatures perçantes de Cheikh Hassan (Syrie, VIIIème millénaire B.C.)", Cahiers de l’Euphrate 7, p. 119-150, 1993. * Abbes, Frederic., "Techniques de débitage et gestion du silex sur le Moyen Euphrate (Syrie) au PPNA final et au PPNB ancien", in H. G. Gebel et S.K. Kozlowski (éds), Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent, Proceedings of the First Workshop on PPN Lithic Industries, Berlin 1993, Studies in Early Near-Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment 1, Berlin, ex. oriente, p. 299-312, 1994. * Abbes, Frederic., "Réflexions concernant les nucléus bipolaires et naviformes du Proche-Orient Néolithique", Cahiers de l’Euphrate 8, p. 139-150, 1998. * Abbes, Frederic., N. BALKAN-ALTI, D. Binder, M.-C. Cauvin,. " Étude technologique préliminaire de l’industrie lithique d’Asikli Höyük", Tüba-Ar II, p. 117-137, 1999. * Abbes, Frederic., M.-C. Cauvin, B. GRATUZE, BELLOT-GURLET L., C. Bressy and POUPEAU G., "Nouvelles recherches sur l’obsidienne de Cheikh Hassan (Vallée de l’Euphrate, Syrie) au Néolithique : PPNA et PPNB ancien", Syria 78, p. 5-17, 2001 * Abbes, Frederic., DERAPRAHAMIAN G., "Pression et Percussion : Identification des stigmates sur des nucléus naviformes (Syrie)", in L. Bourguignon et I. Ortega (éds), Préhistoire et approche expérimentale, Editions M. Mergoal, (Série Préhistoire 5), Montagnac, p. 195-205, 2002. * Abbes, Frederic., Étude des industries lithiques du néolithique précéramique de Syrie du Xème au VIIIème millénaire B.P., BAR-Tempus reparatum, Maison de l’Orient, 2002. * Stordeur D., Abbes, Frederic., "Du PPNA au PPNB : mise en lumière d’une phase de transition à Jerf el Ahmar (Syrie)", Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, 99/3, p 563-595, 2002.


External links


Video Lecture by Frédéric Abbès "The Neolithic Mountain Bal'a (central Syria)", Archeology seminar "Home and away, Man throughout the ages"


References

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