Françoise Hivernel (1943-2022) was a French-born academic archaeologist, psychoanalyst, writer and translator.[1]

Francoise Hivernel
BornFrançoise Hivernel
14 June 1943
Versailles, France
Died29 August 2022(2022-08-29) (aged 79)
NationalityFrench and British
GenreArchaeology, Psychoanalysis, Travel
SpouseIan Hodder 1975-1984
Children2

Early life edit

Hivernel was born to Raymonde Beque and André Hivernel in Versailles during World War II. Her brother Jacques Hivernel, was born in 1945.

Education edit

Hivernel attended the lycée in Versailles and achieved the Baccalaureat, 1st and 2nd part, in 1974. She was awarded an MA and a PhD in 1979 from the UCL Institute of Archaeology in London. She also trained in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy through the West Midlands Institute for Psychotherapy in Birmingham.[2]

Careers edit

Hivernel worked first as an archaeologist in France where she belonged to the National Scientific Research Centre, Laboratory of Quaternary Geology.[3] She dug in Ethiopia[4][5] and Lebanon. Then she went to the UK, whence she dug in Jordan[6][7] and Kenya. As part of research towards her PhD, she excavated in Ngenyn, a site initially discovered by Louis Leakey.[8][9][10][11] She has also contributed to learned papers on other African archaeological sites[12][13] and published on the archaeology of Britain.[14][15] Subsequently, she worked for Cambridgeshire County Council[16] and next the Cambridge City Council. She then had a career in Psychoanalytic-Psychotherapy.

Don’t we all live in a mirage, that of our imagination, forever reaching for something that we can never attain – something that keeps temptingly eluding us and therefore spurs us on?

Safartu: travels with my children[17]

Writing edit

Hivernel wrote extensively on archaeology and psychotherapy and was published in an array of academic journals and books in both French and English. She followed the work of Françoise Dolto[18][19] and (with F. Sinclair) translated Dolto's seminal book on parent-infant psychotherapy[20] from French into English. This work brought Dolto to the attention of English-speaking clinicians.

Hivernel published the travel narrative Safartu[21] and substantially contributed to a women's travel anthology 50 Camels and She's Yours.[22] She was a member of Cambridge Writers for some years.[23]

References edit

  1. ^ Cambridge Writers website
  2. ^ training in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  3. ^ Drechou, H; F Hivernel; R Karpoff (1968). "Nouvelles stations prehistoriques dans les reliefs anciens de l'Arabie Saoudite. Industries paleolithiques et neolithiques, murets, gravures rupestres". Bull. Soc. Prehist. Fr. LXV (3): 817–832.
  4. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (1976). "Les industries du 'Late Stone Age' dans la region de Melka Kontoure (Ethiopie)". VII Panafr. Congr. Prehist & Quat. St., Addis Ababa, 1971: 93–98.
  5. ^ Muir, I; F Hivernel (1976). "Obsidians from the Melka-Kontoure prehistoric site, Ethiopia". J. Arch. Science. 3 (3): 211–217. Bibcode:1976JArSc...3..211M. doi:10.1016/0305-4403(76)90055-8.
  6. ^ Garrard, A; B Byrd; P Harvey; F Hivernel (1985). "Prehistoric environment and settlement in the Azraq Basin. A report on the 1982 Survey season". Levant. 17: 1–28. doi:10.1179/007589185790212105.
  7. ^ Garrard, A; P Harvey; F Hivernel; B Byrd (1985). Hadidi, A (ed.). "The environmental history of the Azraq Basin in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan II". Department of Antiquities, Amman: 109–115. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (1979). An Ethnoarchaeological study of Environmental Use in the Kenya Highlands. London: PhD thesis. University College London.
  9. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (1983). "Excavations at Ngenyn (Baringo District, Kenya)". Azania. 18: 45–79. doi:10.1080/00672708309511314.
  10. ^ Hivernel, Francoise; Hodder, Ian (1984). Hodder, Ian (ed.). Analysis of artifact distribution at Ngenyn (Kenya): Depositional and postdepositional effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 97–115.
  11. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (1983). "Archaeological excavation and ethnoarchaeological interpretation: A case study in Kenya". Archaeological Review from Cambridge. 2 (2): 27–36.
  12. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (1986). "Preliminary results of the Libyan Valleys Survey: the lithics". Journal of Libyan Studies. 16: 29–50. doi:10.1017/S0263718900007275. S2CID 132263568.
  13. ^ Gilbertson, DD; CO Hunt; F Hivernel; JE Burnett (1988). "A reconnaissance survey of the Cenozoic geomorphology of the Wadi Merdum, Beni Ulid, in the Libyan pre-desert". Journal of Libyan Studies. 19: 95–121. doi:10.1017/S0263718900001114. S2CID 132732310.
  14. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (1982). Hodder, I (ed.). The lithic industry in The Iron Age and Roman settlement at Wendens Ambo, Essex. Essex: Passmore Edwards Museum. pp. 22–24.
  15. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (1986). Callow, P; Cornford, J (eds.). The Quartz Industry in La Cotte de St Brelade (Jersey). Excavations by C.B.M. McBurney, 1961-1978. Academic Press. pp. 315–324.
  16. ^ Hivernel, Francoise; et al. (1986). The Normans in Cambridgeshire: a resource pack for project work. Cambridgeshire County Council. p. 86.
  17. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (2015). Safartu : Travels with my children. FeedARead.com. p. 285. ISBN 9781786104045.
  18. ^ Hall, Guy; Hivernel, Francoise; Morgan, Sian, eds. (2009). Theory and Practise in Child Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Françoise Dolto's Work. Karnac Books, London. ISBN 978-1-85575-574-1.
  19. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (2013). "'The Parental couple' : Françoise Dolto and Jacques Lacan - Contributions to the Mirror Stage". British Journal of Psychotherapy. 29 (4): 505–518. doi:10.1111/bjp.12048.
  20. ^ Dolto, Francoise (2013). Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics. Key Psychoanalytical concepts with sixteen Clinical Observations of Children. Karnac, London. p. 239. ISBN 978-1855758124.
  21. ^ Hivernel, Francoise (2015). Safartu : Travels with my children. FeedARead.com. p. 285. ISBN 9781786104045.
  22. ^ *Green, Stephanie; Françoise Hivernel; Sally Haiselden; Seeta Siriwardena; Jane Wilson-Howarth (2018). 50 Camels and She's Yours: tales from five women across five continents. Cambridge: Feedaread. p. 305. ISBN 979-8374798937.
  23. ^ Cambridge Writers website