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1960 -Birth in Béziers, south of France.
1967 -From the age of seven, she takes drawing and painting classes at an artist workshop.
1981 -She joins the Salamandre troupe of Lille National Theater and creates her first masks and make-ups for comedians.
1982 -Noticed by German stage director Matthias Langhoff, she makes her first special effects and starts to master different materials: resin, silicone, colorings and earthenware.
1984 -Elisabeth Daynès is 24 when she creates her own sculpture workshop in Belleville, Paris.
1988 -The Thot Museum in Montignac, near the famous Lascaux caves, commissions her to create a life-size mammoth and a group of Magdalenians. She thus discovers a passion for prehistory.
1990-1996 -Thanks to experts, she learns how to decipher the origin of Man. In 1991, the opening of the Tautavel Museum in the Pyreneans makes her famous nationwide.
1996-1997 -Her meeting with Jean-Noël Vignal, a forensic anthropologist at the Forensic Institute, is a turning point in her career as a prehistoric sculptress. He brings her technology, and she deepens her knowledge of anatomy.
In Germany, the success of the Neanderthal Museum and the Geo magazine exhibitions consecrate her as the best European artist within her field.
1997-1999 -She discovers Tahiti and its islands. It is love at first sight. She creates the Pearl Museum in Papeete. "Lucy", the Australopithecus, maybe her finest work, flies off to Mexico City, at the National Anthropology and History Institute.
2001-2002 -Elisabeth Daynès designs the museography for a temporary exhibition in Montignac, Dordogne, named « Histories of Man ».
2003 -She travels to Georgia with the Dmanisi « couple », a pair of Homo erectus aged 1.8 million years. There, she meets David Lordkipanidze, their discoverer, a world famous « celebrity » in the Paleontology field.
Another « Lucy » sets out to conquer the United States and draws the crowds at the Field Museum.
2004 -An admirer of Rodin and above all Camille Claudel, she accepts the German Halle Museum's suggestion to create a 200 000 year old man sitting in the position of the « Thinker ».
2005 -The philosopher, physicist and curator of the « CosmoCaixa » Science Museum in Barcelona, Jorge Wagensberg, presents five of her creations within an exhibition dedicated to the shapes of nature.
2006 -Elisabeth Daynès exports her talents overseas. National Geographic offers her the cover of its 25 international issues with "Tutankhamon". The exhibition devoted to the young Egyptian pharaoh attracts huge crowds in Los Angeles and Chicago, and makes her famous worldwide.
2007 -The Museum of Man presents a preview of « Flores », a creature of Indonesian origins. Elisabeth Daynès can thus devote her time to devising two monumental projects in Sweden and Croatia: about twenty new characters to create until 2009. They will join the hundred or so sculptures scattered all over the world.
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