A sad loss indeed. Thank you for letting us know Christine, my sympathies to her family and friends.
I knew her work more than I knew her, but I ended up sitting with her at a conference and enjoyed chatting island archaeology whenever we bumped into each other.
Taken before her time. But I think it is fair to say that she fitted a huge amount into the time she did have.
Julia
Dear Chistine and Jean Denis,
Condolences to the family as well as friends/colleagues in Paris and beyond. Anne has been very active and positive about her work, an example to all of us. It is very sad that her life was so short. In addition to conferences, I met her at ISSI in Edinburgh several times and have kind memories.
Best wishes, Laszlo
Dear all,
We are very sad to inform you that Anne Tresset passed over last Thursday evening, exhausted by a long struggle against a terrible cancer. During these last five years, we believed several times that she had definitely conquered this ugly crab. No way…
Anne Tresset was 55. Her PhD (1996) dealt with the “role of human / animal relationships in the economic and cultural evolution of societies from the 5th to the 4th millennia in the Paris Basin”. She spent two post-doctoral years in Edinburgh as an associate visitor of the International Social Sciences Institute. In 2000, she became a CNRS researcher then a Director of research, in the lab of archaeozoology and archaeobotany of the National Natural of History Museum in Paris.
During the last 20 years, she strongly participated in the expansion of the French community of archaeozoologists. She played an active part in the development of new analytical techniques for archaeozoology, especially stable isotopes, palaeogenetics and morphometrics. She contributed to create relevant synergies between the different specialists, leading to an enriched and refined vision of the processes of domestication and of the complex interactions between climate, humans and animal communities on small islands. She developed many researches on the Neolithic and island biogeography in Brittany and the British islands, in the North of France and in Romania. During the last few years, she initiated a project on the small islands in North China, and devoted a large part of the time that her illness left her to work on the origin of European dogs. She recently published an important paper about that question (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0286).
Anne was a very strong and enthusiastic person, who passionately put herself into everything she undertook. The French community and the numerous collaborators she had in numerous places of the world are very sad.
Jean-Denis Vigne and Christine Lefèvre
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