René Rebuffat (10 September 1930 – 31 November 2019) was a French historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Africa. He conducted archaeological excavations at

Thamusida Thamusida was a Berber, Carthaginian, and Roman river port that was near the present-day towns of Kénitra and Mehdia in Morocco. Under the Roman Empire, it formed a part of the province of Mauretania Tingitana. Name The Punic form of the name ...

in Morocco, Gholaia in Libya, and in the Sebou basin in Morocco. He also worked on archaeological sites of

Aléria Aléria (; Ancient Greek: /, ; Latin and Italian: ; co, U Cateraghju) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see. It includes the easternmost point i ...

and Jublains.

Career

A student of the

École normale supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education sca ...

(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 The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...

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, a territory covering much of northern Africa. The script in which it was written, the Libyco-Berber alphabet (from which Tifinagh descended), has been almost fully deciphered and most characters ...

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

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Persée ''Persée'' (''Perseus'') is a tragédie lyrique with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault, first performed on 18 April 1682 by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. Roles Synopsis ACT I: The Pa ...

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 French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists Historians of Africa Historical linguists

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