Jacques Tixier, a French archaeologist and technologist, passed away on April 3 2018 aged 93, 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 recognized branch of study, helping this young science to become a fully-fledged discipline in its own right. Great prehistorian founder of technol..
