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René Rebuffat (10 September 1930 – 31 November 2019) was a French historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Africa. He conducted archaeological excavations at Thamusida in Morocco, to (Gholaia) in Libya, and in the Sebou basin in Morocco. He also worked on archaeological sites of Aléria and Jublains.


Career

A student of the
École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
(class 1952), then a member of the École française de Rome (1959), he was detached to the service of Antiquities of Morocco (1961) where he began his scientific career. He entered the CNRS in 1963, which he left in 1998 with the title of Emeritus Research Director. In historical linguistics, he contributed since 2002 to research on linguistic practices of ancient North Africa, and among others to research on
Numidian language Numidian was a language spoken in ancient Numidia. The script in which it was written, the Libyco-Berber alphabet (from which Tifinagh descended), has been almost fully deciphered and most characters (apart from a few exceptions restricted to ...
inscriptions.


Publications (partial list)

* ''Le complexe fortifié de Jublains'' ollaborations J. Naveau, Recherches sur Jublains et sur la cité des Diablintes, 1997 * ''Thamusida I, II, III'', ollaborations Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome, 1965, 1970, 1977, 1977 * Aires sémantiques des principaux mots libyques, in MEFRA 118/1, 2006, p. 267-295


See also

* Jublains archeological site


References


External links


René Rebuffat
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''Peinture et inscriptions''
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René Rebuffat with collaboration by Gilbert Hallier and Jean Marion, ''Thamusida II - Fouilles du service des antiquites du Maroc''
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Rebuffat, Rene French archaeologists École Normale Supérieure alumni 2019 deaths 1930 births 20th-century French historians 21st-century French male writers 21st-century French historians 20th-century French male writers Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research Historians of Africa Historical linguists