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 Rebuffaton
data.bnf.fr
Resumeon Archeo.ens
''Peinture et inscriptions''on
Persée
René Rebuffat with collaboration by Gilbert Hallier and Jean Marion, ''Thamusida II - Fouilles du service des antiquites du Maroc''on Persée
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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