Lhote, Henri
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The Hoggar Tuaregbook chapter 1944
- Summary
- Henri Lhote was a French explorer, ethnographer, and discoverer of prehistoric cave art. He is credited with the discovery of an assembly of 800 or more works of primitive art in a remote region of Algeria on the edge of the Sahara desert. He was aided by the local Tuareg guide Jebrine Ag Mohamed Machar. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1903-05-16 [2][5]
- Birth Place
- Paris [2][5]
- Died
- 1991 [2]
- 1991-03-26 [5]
- Death Place
- Saint-Aignan (Loir-et-Cher) [2]
- Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher [5]
- Country
- France [2]
- Language
- French [3]
- Occupation
- explorer [5]
- anthropologist [5]
- archaeologist [5]
- ethnologist [5]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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