Henri Lhote

Henri Lhote
Lhote in Mauritania in 1967
Born(1903-03-16)16 March 1903
Paris, France
Died26 March 1991(1991-03-26) (aged 88)
Saint-Aignan, Loir-et-Cher, France

Henri Lhote (16 March 1903 – 26 March 1991) 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.[1][2] He was aided by the local Tuareg guide Jebrine Ag Mohamed Machar [fr].

Lhote came to believe the paintings testified to ancient contact with extraterrestrial beings and is considered one of the early proponents of paleocontact.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ ""Paintings from the Past" in the January/February 1983 print edition of Saudi Aramco World". Archived from the original on 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
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  3. ^ "Henri Lhote - LibraryThing". www.librarything.com.
  4. ^ "Henri Lhote - French ethnologist".
  5. ^ Lhote, Henri. The Search for the Tassili Frescoes: The story of the prehistoric rock-paintings of the Sahara. New York: E. P. Dutton.
  6. ^ Ita, J.M., 'Frobenius, Lhote and Saharan Studies', in African Studies Review Vol. 17 no. 1 (April 1974), pp. 286–306.