Alfred Rust | |
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| Born | July 4, 1900 Hamburg, German Empire |
| Died | August 14, 1983 (aged 83) Ahrensburg, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | Work on the prehistory of Germany, the Levant and Near East |
| Awards | Albrecht-Penck-Medaille (1966) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology |
Alfred Rust (July 4, 1900 – August 14, 1983) was a German prehistoric archaeologist. Though self-taught, he became a pioneer in the study of the Hamburgian culture of the late Paleolithic, especially through his excavations in northern Germany.
B.E. Roveland, University of Massachusetts Amherst, commenting on self-taught archaeologists who played a major role from 1930 and onwards in archaeological discoveries in northern Germany, specifically cited Rust as "the most effective of these amateurs, whose work on the now classic sites of Meiendorf and Stellmoor launched the study of the Hamburgian period."[1]