Jean-Claude Gardin

Jean-Claude Gardin (3 April 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a French archaeologist who is recognized as being one of the founders of archaeological computing.

Gardin worked with the organizations UNESCO and the European Atomic Energy Community in the 1950s to the 1960s, leading the creation of an indexing language, the SYNTOL (Syntagmatic Organization Language). He founded the Centre Mécanographique de Documentation Archéologique at French National Center for Scientific Research in 1957.[1] He participated in the excavation of ancient Bactrian sites in Afghanistan.[2] He also contributed to the contemporary debates on the theory of archaeology and of the social sciences.[3]

In 1989 he married the American actress Josephine Chaplin, a daughter of Charlie Chaplin.[4]

References
  1. Moscati, Paola (2016). "Jean-Claude Gardin and the Evolution of Archaeological Computing". OpenEdition. Les nouvelles de l'archéologie. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  2. "Rediscovering the Past: Two Centuries of Archaeology in Afghanistan". Cultural Property Training Resource Afghanistan. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  3. Plutniak, Sébastien (2017). "Is an archaeological contribution to the theory of social science possible? Archaeological data and concepts in the dispute between Jean-Claude Gardin and Jean-Claude Passeron". Palethnologie. 9: 7–21.
  4. Helmore, Edward (21 July 2023). "Josephine Chaplin, actor and daughter of Charlie Chaplin, dies aged 74". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2023.


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