Madeleine Colani

Madeleine Colani (1866 in Strasbourg–1943 in Hanoi, Vietnam) was a female French archaeologist, born in Strasbourg.

In 1899, she arrived to Vietnam to teach, in 1914 returned to France to earn her doctorate. From 1920 to 1927, she worked for Indo-chinese geology bureau. She contributed much for Vietnamese archaeology, especially Sa Huỳnh Culture. She conducted archaeologic surveys in Nghe An Province, Quang Binh Province and Ha Long Bay in Vietnam and Plain of Jars in Laos.

Colani is the source for today's understanding of the megalithic stone jars on the Plain of Jars, investigating and arguing "convincingly" that they were urns, used in funerary rites.

In 1929, she worked for École française d'Extrême-Orient.

See also

• Hoabinhian

Publications

• Colani M. (1927). L'âge de la pierre dans la province de Hoa Binh. Mémoires du Service Géologique de l'Indochine 13
• Colani, Madeleine. (1930). The Megaliths of Upper Laos.

External links

• Laos Keeps Its Urns: Survivor of decades of war, the Plain of Jars retains its allure by Russell Ciochon and Jamie James, University of Iowa
• The Stone Jars of Laos, Viewzone Magazine