Jean-Claude Gardin

Jean-Claude Gardin (3 April, 1925 - 8 April, 2013) was a French archaeologist who is recognized as being one of the founders of archaeological computing.

Gardin worked with the organizations UNESCO and the European Atomic Energy Community in the 1950s to the 1960s. He founded the Centre Mécanographique de Documentation Archéologique at French National Center for Scientific Research in 1957. He participated in the excavation of ancient Bactrian sites in Afghanistan. His major contribution to archaeology is leading the creation of the Syntagmatic Organization Language (SYNTOL), a computer program which indexes and retrieves works from any region.

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