Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - JACQUES TIXIER (1925–2018). In Memoriam. A Great Prehistorian and Technology Ethnologist AU - Le Brun-Ricalens AU - F - Potin AU - Y Y1 - 2018 VL - 56 IS - 3 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 223 EP - 226 KW - N2 - N2 - Jacques Tixier, an archaeologist and technologist, passed away at the age of 93 on 3 April 2018 in his home at Pradines (France) near the Lot river and chalk cliffs which he loved to watch as they glowed in the evening sun in springtime. His death marked the passing of the pioneering generation which crafted French prehistory into an internationally recognised branch of study, helping this young science to become a fully-fledged discipline in its own right. ER -