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    Henri de Contenson (4 March 1926 – 8 September 2019) was a French archaeologist and a researcher at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique...
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    Shamra Tablets, Loyola Press, 1972, ISBN 978-88-7653-248-1 Henri de Contenson, Préhistoire de Ras Shamra, Ras Shamra-Ougarit VIII, 2 volumes, ERC, 1992;...
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  • was discovered in 1967 by Henri de Contenson who led excavations in 1971–1972. The Aswadian culture found by de Contenson was far too advanced for its...
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  • somewhat forgotten until it was rediscovered by W.J. van Liere and Henri de Contenson, the latter leading excavations in 8 seasons between 1963 and 1973...
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    latter's dominance of the Red Sea, while others like Joseph Michels, Henri de Contenson, Tekle-Tsadik Mekouria, and Stanley Burstein have viewed Dʿmt as the...
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    geomorphologist, Willem van Liere. It was excavated between 1960 and 1965 by Henri de Contenson and van Liere and later between 1976 and 1978 by Peter Akkermans,...
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    Byblos (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in 1960 with further studies by R. Erich in 1954 and Van Liere and Henri de Contenson in 1964. Prehistoric settlements at Byblos were divided up by Dunand...
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    for Acheulean or Levalloisian by some scholars. Diana Kirkbride and Henri de Contenson suggested that it existed over a wide area of the fertile crescent...
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    Nicolas Henri René de Grimouard (Fontenay-le-Comte, 25 January 1743 – Rochefort, 7 February 1794) was an officer in the French Navy. He served in the...
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    latter's dominance of the Red Sea. Others, including Joseph Michels, Henri de Contenson, Tekletsadik Mekuria, and Stanley Burstein, have viewed Dʿmt as the...
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  • Airport. Four soundings were taken in a rescue mission in 1967 by Henri de Contenson who produced the first report in 1968. A single level of occupation...
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  • com mentions 25,000 inhabitants in 2014. In 1953, archaeologists Henri de Contenson and James Mellaart excavated the site of Tell esh-Shuneh esh-Shamaliyyeh...
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  • small, 2 square metres (22 sq ft) excavation was made on the tell by Henri de Contenson in 1974. Materials discovered, particularly the stylistic traits of...
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    Charles S. Hall 1905, page 364 [1] Contenson (1934), p. 159. Stevenson, Cornelius. "A Biographical Notice of the Duc De Lauzun, Commander of the Troop of...
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  • 27–33, 1972 Contenson, Henri de, Jacques-Claude Courtois, Élisabeth Lagarce, Jacques Lagarce, and Rolf Stucky, "La XXXIIIe Campagne de Fouilles a Ras...
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  • Deaths in September 2019 (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    activist, cancer. Alfred A. Cave, 84, American historian and author. Henri de Contenson, 93, French archaeologist. Sir Christopher Dobson, 69, British chemist...
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  • Victurnien-Henri-Elzéar de Rochechouart de Mortemart (Paris, 11 July 1756 — Port-au-Prince, 17 March 1783) was a French Navy officer. He served in the...
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  •  618. Académie de Marine (2011), p. 2. Lacour-Gayet (1910), p. 648. References Contenson, Ludovic (1934). La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre...
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  • the American Schools of Oriental Research at Dhiban (1950–1953), Henri de Contenson at Tell esh-Shuna (1953), and Diana Kirkbride at Petra (1955–1956)...
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    agricultural village between Mount Hermon and Damascus could not validate Henri de Contenson's earlier suggestion of a PPNA Aswadian culture. Instead, they found...
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    Lacour-Gayet (1910), p. 618. Jougla de Morenas, p. 59. References Contenson, Ludovic (1934). La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique (1778-1783)...
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    1925 – Paul Mauriat, French conductor and composer (d. 2006) 1926 – Henri de Contenson, French archaeologist and academic (d. 2019) 1926 – Prince Michel...
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  • Henri-Louis de Boulainvilliers de Croy was a French Navy officer. He served in the War of American Independence. He was a member of the Society of the...
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  • surveyed and studied in 1965-6 by Lorraine Copeland, Peter Wescombe and Henri de Contenson. Materials found included burnished, red-washed shards of pottery...
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    Contenson (1934), p. 167. Rouxel, Jean-Christophe. "Joseph Léon de La MARTHONIE". Parcours de vie dans la Royale. Retrieved 18 May 2020. Contenson (1934)...
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    and Marie-Claire Cauvin. It was also discussed by W. Van Liere and Henri de Contenson in 1963. A large area of the site was completely destroyed by construction...
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    Troude (1867), p. 41. Contenson (1934), p. 142. Contenson (1934), p. 167. Contenson, Ludovic (1934). La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique...
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    Brest, from where he fled France to become an émigré. Notes Citations Contenson (1934), p. 135. Archives nationales (2011), p. 173. Archives nationales...
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  • January 1792, he was promoted to contre-amiral. Contenson, Ludovic (1934). La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique (1778-1783). Paris:...
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    that included Diana Kirkbride, Jacques Cauvin, Henri de Contenson, Maurice Dunand, Francis Hours, Henri Fleisch, Robert John Braidwood, Ralph Solecki,...
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