<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif;color:#20124d"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif;color:#20124d"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear all</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Here is the text of the official announcement from our laboratory, of which F. Poplin was still a member.<br>You will find the French version with illustrations at the following link <br></span></font></p><div><span class="gmail-Object" role="link" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT63_com_zimbra_url" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://archeozoo-archeobota.mnhn.fr/fr/actualites/francois-poplin-9200" target="_blank">https://archeozoo-archeobota.mnhn.fr/fr/actualites/francois-poplin-9200</a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font style="font-family:times new roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="EN-US">François Poplin was an encyclopedic researcher,
a teacher and an atypical colleague, who knew no intellectual boundaries and
was bubbling with ideas. Even if it was sometimes difficult to follow the
lineaments of his thought, he was and remains a great inspiration of ideas. A
man of character, a hard worker, generous in everything he did, he demonstrated
boundless enthusiasm and acuity right up to his final hours. In this, he
remains a role model for many, at the Museum and perhaps even more so elsewhere,
in France and beyond. He played a major role in our community by promoting,
often ahead of his time, a global naturalistic and anthropological approach to
human-animal relations, in all their historical dimensions, and by striving
towards a universal perception of the anthropological fact. Retired since
December 2008, he remained honorary director of the UMR "Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique"
and honorary attaché to the “Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle” (MNHN).</span></font><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">He left us on April 20, 2024 (the anniversary
of the Fontainebleau farewells in 1814, as he might have said with humour!)<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">François Poplin was born in Auxerre, Yonne, in
1943. Burgundy is a strong component of his identity. The son of a history
teacher, F. Poplin discovered archaeology in 1955, then in 1958 at the Ecolives
and Arcy-sur-Cure excavations, both directed by André Leroi-Gourhan. He learned
a lot from the this eminent anthropologist, and later sought to follow this
model of field experience and collective thinking, where generations mingled,
in the excavations at La Roche-aux-Loups (Merry-sur-Yonne), which he directed
during the 1980s.<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Despite his interest in archaeology, F. Poplin
studied veterinary medicine in Lyon under the great anatomist Professor Robert
Barone. In 1966, he defended his doctoral thesis entitled « Research on
eyeball biometry in domestic mammals ». A veterinary surgeon in the Berry
region, he continued his studies, defending a doctoral thesis in 1972 entitled « Contribution
to the morphology and biometry of <i>Alopex lagopus</i> (Linnaeus) and <i>Vulpes
vulpes</i> (Linnaeus). The foxes of Arcy-sur-Cure».<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Hired the same year as an assistant at the “Laboratoire
d'Anatomie Comparée” at the MNHN, he was one of the few to have taken interest
in osteological collections, which had fallen into disuse over the past fifty
years. Over the next decade, he listed, reassembled and identified these
abandoned skeletons, in parallel with the analysis of animal bones from
numerous Paleolithic and Neolithic sites in Germany and France. In so doing, he
made a significant contribution to establishing a palethnographic vision of
osteoarchaeology, archaeozoology and taphonomy, which he passed on to many
generations of students and collaborators, and which still inspires the
national community today. In 1976, he joined the still very narrow circle of
the international committee of the International Council for Archaeozoology
(ICAZ), where he shared the French representation with Pierre Ducos. He felt
that his title of Chairman of the Honorary Committee of the 11th ICAZ congress,
mainly organized by C. Lefèvre and J.-D. Vigne in 2010 at the Jardin des
Plantes and attended by over 800 participants, was the best tribute that could
be paid to him.<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">At the turn of the 1980s, with the support of a
small group of young researchers based at the Laboratoire d'Anatomie Comparée
and often closely associated with the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, where F.
Poplin taught, he founded "L'Homme et l'Animal" (HASRI), an
association which publishes the Journal <i>Anthropozoologica</i> (<a href="https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica" target="_blank">https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica</a>)
and organizes numerous ebullient conferences, well attended by ethnozoologists from
the Muséum and members of the “Société d'Ethnozootechnie”. He was also at the
origin of the cooperative research program "Animal, Bone and
Archaeology" (RCP 717) supported by the CNRS, the embryo of what would
become in 1990, under his direction, the associated research unit of the same
name, today the UMR "Archaezoology, Archaeobotany", which has
contributed to the training and leadership of a significant part of the French
scientific community of bioarchaeologists, one of the largest in the world.<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Since the early 1980s, François Poplin's
intellectual approach has focused on anthropozoology, exploring the historical
dynamics of the relationship between man and animal, not only through bones,
but also through bestiaries, texts, languages... His immense culture and
surprising creativity enabled him to fertilize this then almost virgin field,
which he translated into a series of seminars on "The natural and cultural
history of real animals" at the MNHN from 1994 onwards.<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">F. Poplin is the author of hundreds of articles
ranging from the description of new taxa, to the analysis of Jules Renard's
vision of animals, to the provenance and stylistic analysis of hundreds of
historical ivory and bone objects, a field in which he is an international
reference. Most of the titles are published in non-indexed periodicals and
written in French, but in a remarkable style, where every word is weighed,
considered and chosen. From anatomy to paleontology and prehistory, François
Poplin's work extends to history, ethnology, anthropology, archaeozoology and
anthropozoology. He has traveled extensively to visit numerous collections and
museums, (re)identifying hard materials of animal or plant origin, and
explaining the techniques used to create objects. The Louvre Museum has called
on his expertise on numerous occasions, and his name should have appeared as
the principal author of the catalog for the 2004 exhibition on ivories, from
the ancient Orient to the modern era, as well as on many of the labels of
objects exhibited in various museums. This is just one of many cases in which
F. Poplin, too preoccupied with chasing a thousand novelties and a thousand
investigations that had been underway for years, was more attached to
intellectual challenges than to his own visibility or career. <span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Nevertheless, he made sure that his work was
well known and regularly updated his bibliographic list. To ensure that this
list is not overlooked and that François Poplin's intellectual output continues
to act as fertile ground for younger generations, it can be consulted in full
on the following website: <a href="https://archeozoo-archeobota.mnhn.fr/fr/annuaire/francois-poplin-8848" target="_blank">https://archeozoo-archeobota.mnhn.fr/fr/annuaire/francois-poplin-8848</a>.<span> </span>The same will soon apply to his Primer on
Anthropozoology, interviews filmed in 2023 as part of the unit's archives.<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span lang="EN-US">J.-D. Vigne, C. Lefèvre, A. Averbouh, M.
Mashkour, M.-P. Ruas<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Archaeozoology, archaeobotany, CNRS-MNHN, Paris</font><span></span></span></p>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 23 avr. 2024 à 15:08, Zsuzsanna Toth <<a href="mailto:zsuzsanna.toth11@gmail.com" target="_blank">zsuzsanna.toth11@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A very-very sad news. <div>Aline, please pass my condolences, too. <div>I met him only a couple of times, but he was a great researcher caring for the young colleagues always open for discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Zsuzsa</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr. Tóth Zsuzsanna<div>Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Régészeti Tár</div><div>H-1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 14-16.</div><div><br></div><div>Hungarian National Museum</div><div>H-1088 Budapest, Múzeum Krt. 14-16.</div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Alice Choyke <<a href="mailto:choyke@gmail.com" target="_blank">choyke@gmail.com</a>> ezt írta (időpont: 2024. ápr. 22., H, 10:39):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Dear Colleagues,<div dir="auto"> I just saw on the Zooarch mailing list that Francois Poplin has passed away. He was an infinite fund of knowledge about all the ways bone could be worked throughout western history. His enthusiasm and observations will be missed!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Alice</div></div>
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