Henri de Contenson

Henri de Contenson

Henri de Contenson (born 4 March 1926, in Paris), is a French Archaeologist and was Research Director at CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research.

A student of André Parrot, Raymond Lantier and André Leroi-Gourhan, he was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in the Middle East from 1951 to 1976. The results of his work are documented in numerous publications.

Positions held

National Center for Scientific Research:

Fieldwork

Society Memberships

Henry Contenson is a special member of the following scientific societies:

Bibliography

2 - Articles

(In collaboration with Jacques Clere) Anthropologie et pathologie dans le Néolithique final de Ras Shamra, Etudes ougaritiques II. Le Néolithique précéramique de Tell el-Farah, in P. de Miroschedji, Le Néolithique et le Chalcolithique de Tell el-Farah. La Période Chalcolithique, in W. Orthmann (éd.), Archéologie et Histoire de la Syrie I. La Syrie de la préhistoire à la fin de l'époque araménne, Schriften zur Archäologie, Saarbrücken.