
Patrice Bonnafoux
- BA, MA, PhD
- UMR 8096 “Archéologie des Amériques”,
CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Research Associate
- Honorary Research Associate
Research Interests
- Mesoamerican Archaeology
- Maya Iconography and Worldviews
- Emergence of Classic Maya
civilization
- Human-environment interaction
- Material culture and innovation
- Crisis and socio-cultural adaptation
- Semiotic, design, and communication
Collaborations
- Dr Sebastien Lacombe, Dr Kathleen
Sterling (Binghampton University), Dr Meg Conkey (University of California, Berkeley),
Paléolithique Supérieur des Pyrénées – site de Peyre Blanque (Ariège,
France).
- Dr Philippe Nondédéo (UMR 8096 CNRS),
Naachtun, Guatemala.
- Dr Anne Pyburn (Indiana University), Chau
Hiix, Belize.
- Dr Meg Conkey (University of
California, Berkeley), Between the Caves, Ariège, France.
- Dr Jeanne Lopiparo (University of
California, Berkeley), Project Archaeological Classic terminal - Sula
Valley, Honduras.
Educational Background
- 2008: PhD,
Anthropology / Archaeology - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- 2002: DEA (equiv. MA),
Archaeology, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
- 2000:
Maîtrise (equiv. BA), Art History and Archaeology, Université de
Toulouse-le-Mirail
- Bonnafoux Patrice, Nicolas Lastanopoulos, Julie Patrois,
Marie-Charlotte Arnauld, Dominique
Michelet, Philippe Nondédéo, and Grégory Pereira (2011), “L'un dans l'autre:
figurines gigognes du Dépôt spécial 69-2 de Becan, Mexique”, in Profils
d'objets. Approches d'anthropologues et d'archéologues, pp. 59-69, edited
by F. Wateau, C. Perlès, and P. Soulier, Colloques de la Maison
Renè-Ginouvès, 7. Editions De Brocca.
- Bonnafoux Patrice ( 2011),
“Waters, Droughts, and Early Classic Maya Worldviews”, in Ecology, Power,
and Religion in Maya Landscapes, edited par Christian Isendahl and Bodil
Liljefors Person. Acta Mesoamerica, Vol. No.(t.b.a.) Verlag Anton Saurwein,
Markt Schwaben.
- Nondédéo, Philippe, Dominique Michelet, Alejandro Patiño, Martin Rangel, Patrice Bonnafoux,
Diana Méndez, Julien Sion, Diana Belches, and Geraldine Fondebilla
(2010) “Acercamiento a los conjuntos
residenciales de Naachtun : resultados preliminares de la primera
temporada de campo (2010)”, in XXIV Simposio de investigaciones arqueológicas
en Guatemala, Guatemala.