Alfred Muzzolini
Alfred Muzzolini (born January 5, 1922 in Magnano , Italy ; † February 16, 2003 in Toulouse , France ) was a French geologist , prehistorian and publisher who dealt in particular with the rock art of the Sahara .
Life
Muzzolini attended a Catholic school and then studied at the École nationale supérieure de géologie in Nancy . He completed there with a diploma thesis as an engineer in geology. After finishing his career as a geologist in the diamond industry in Africa, he retired to Toulouse. There he founded the publishing house Éditions des Hespérides , which specialized in the publication of books on archeology and was later taken over by the Éditions Errance . Henri Lhote and Gabriel Camps were among its authors . Gabriel Camps he was with his work The cow in the African history doctorate .
Muzzolini's other works dealt primarily with the chronology of the rock art in the Sahara, the development of the climate in this desert and the origins of the African domestic animals cattle and sheep. He reaffirmed the stylistic classifications of Lhote and Fabrizio Mori , which were based on the carvings and rock paintings in Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria and in Tadrart Acacus in southwest Libya and which differ only in style from the drawings of the shepherds of the central Sahara.
Together with Giancarlo Negro he founded the magazine Sahara Journal and in 1991 was the founding president of the Association des amis de l'art rupestre saharians (AARS).
Publications (selection)
- L'Art rupestre préhistorique des massif centraux sahariens . (= British Archaeological Reports International Series 318). Oxford 1986, ISBN 0-86054-406-0 .
- Les images rupestres du Sahara . Self-published, Toulouse 1995 ( table of contents ). As a file: Video / Istor 2000.
literature
- Hic sunt Leones. Mélanges sahariens en l'honneur d'Alfred Muzzolini (= Les Cahiers de l'Association des amis de l'art rupestre saharians. No. 10). Association des amis de l'art rupestre saharians, Saint-Lizier 2006.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muzzolini, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist, prehistorian, publisher and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magnano , Kingdom of Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 2003 |
| Place of death | Toulouse , France |