Laming-Emperaire, Annette

Basic Biographical Information

Annette Laming-Emperaire (1917–1977) was born in Russia in 1917. She grew up in France, where she lived all her life and developed a fruitful career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), later becoming director of the École Pratique des Hautes Études, in Paris. She started her research career with rock art, becoming an influential member of the group of structuralist Paleolithic art scholars led by André Leroi-Gourhan. Her doctoral thesis (Laming-Emperaire 1962) was a major contribution towards the development of structuralism in rock art. Later, she became involved with South American prehistory, initially by following her husband, Joseph Emperaire, who was sent by Paul Rivet to the outskirts of the South American continent in the search of the early peopling of the New World. In South America Annette Laming-Emperaire soon found her own vein, and she became deeply involved with local research interests, working mostly in Chile and...