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Henri de Contenson

Henri de Contenson (4 March 1926 – 8 September 2019) was a French archaeologist

and was the Research Director at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded
by France's Ministry of Research.
He was born in Paris in March 1926. A student of André Parrot, Raymond
Lantier and André Leroi-Gourhan, he was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in
the Middle East from 1951 to 1976.[1] The results of his work are documented in
numerous publications. He died in September 2019 at the age of 93. [2]

Books[edit]
 1966 - La Basilique Chrétienne d'Aksha (The
Christian Basilica of Aksha), Aksha I, Paris, 1966
(with appendices by J. de Heinzelin and P. Leman).
 1992 - Préhistoire de Ras Shamra (Prehistory of
Ras Shamra), I. Text, II. Figures and plates, Ras
Shamra-Ougarit VIII, ERC, Paris, 1992 (in
collaboration with Jacques Blot, Liliane Courtois,
Monique Dupeyron & Arlette Leroi-Gourhan).
  1995 - Aswad et Ghoraifé, sites néolithiques en
Damascène (Syrie) aux IXe et VIIIe millénaires
avant l'ère chrétienne, B.A.H. CXXXVII, Beyrouth,
1995 (in collaboration with Patricia Anderson, Marie-
Claire Cauvin, Jacques Clère, Pierre Ducos,
Monique Dupeyron, Claudine Maréchal & Danielle
Stordeur).
 2000 - Ramad, site néolithique en Damascène
(Syrie) aux VIIIe et VIIe millénaires avant l'ère
chrétienne, B.A.H. 157, Beyrouth, 2000 (in
collaboration with Marie-Claire Cauvin, Liliane
Courtois, Pierre Ducos, Monique Dupeyron, Willem
van Zeist).
 2001 - (in collaboration with Pierre de Longuemar)
Mémorial 1939–1945, EHRET, Paris, 2001.
 2004 - 50 ans de tessons. Propos sur l'Archéologie
palestinienne, Paris, 2004.
 2005 - Antiquités éthiopiennes. D'Axoum à
Haoulti, Bibliothèque Peiresc 16, Saint-Mandé,
 2007 - (in collaboration with Pierre de Longuemar)
Mémorial 1939–1962, Paris, 2007.

References[edit]

 History portal
 France portal

1. ^ Kafafi, Zeidan A. (2006). "Henri De Contenson's

archaeological fieldwork in the eastern part of the Jordan
valley: a re-evaluation". Syria.  83: 69–82. JSTOR 40649381.
2. ^ Comte Henri de CONTENSON

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