Gabriel Camps

Gabriel Camps is a Préhistorien born the May 20th 1927 with Misserghin (Algérie) and deceased in 2002. The essence of its research was carried out in Algérie, but also in Corsica.

Its principal university thesis treats origins of the Tamazgha.

Until 1969, it took up the duty of director of the Research center anthropological, prehistoric and ethnological (CRAPE), as well as National museum of Ethnography and Prehistory of Bardo to Saharan Algiers and Research institute.

Starting from 1970, Gabriel Camps directed the drafting of the Berber Encyclopédie . After its death in 2002 and in accordance with its wishes, the publication of the encyclopedia is continued under the direction of Salem Chaker, professor of Langue Berber with INALCO (Paris). Salem Chaker is one of the first collaborators, also counting Préhistorien S, protohistorien S, Linguiste S, Ethnologue S, specialists in literature, Géographe S.

Gabriel Camps had become the highest one scientific reference in the study of the history of the Berber ones.

Origin of the Berber ones

Considering the origins of Berber, G. Camps recorded diversity of the Dialecte S and the fractionation of the populations on several State S, or the nonsense of a racial interpretation of the Berber term : In fact there is neither a Berber language today, in the direction where this one would be the reflection of a community being aware of its unit, nor Berber people and even less one Berber race. On these negative aspects all the specialists are of agreement… and however the Berber ones exist. He did not affirm of it less the existence of a human group identifiable good to which he was deeply attached, and of which he sought to show permanence over long time. On the basis of and its anthropological observation Linguistic S, it placed the origins of Berber in proto-Mediterranean the Capsien S by which the arrival had preceded the Neolithic , which made their descendants of truths indigenous S. the linguistic political alliance of the Berber language with the Hamito-Semitic group conferred to them moreover a very remote origin Orient ale. He also insisted on the diversity of the contributions of settlement which the the Maghreb knew thereafter and which were melted in this first funds of settlement.

Elements of bibliography

North Africa to female the , Perrin, 1992.
Berber Encyclopedia , Édisud, 1985-2002: twenty-five booklets and more than 4.000 pages, for half written by Gabriel Camps.
Berber, memory and identity .
Prehistory of an island . Corsica of the origins, 1988, Wandering, 1991.
Introduction to prehistory , Perrin, Collection Not History, 1982.
prehistoric Atlas of the Mediterranean South French , 1978-1981: work collective directed by the author.
the Berber ones, with the margins of the History , 1980.
Mediterranean Épipaléolithique , 1975: work collective directed by the author.
the Man of Cro-Magnon , 1970, Faton, 1992: work collective directed by the author.

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